4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916 OREGON CITY COURIER C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postofflce 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 OF OREGON STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES NO SURRENDER TO FORCE The action of President Wilson ami congress in enacting the eight-hour law was no surrender to force. Messrs. Hughes, Lodge, Roosevelt, Penrose, Pierpont Morgan and George W. Perkins may maintain that the ad ministration surrendered to force, but that does not prove the fact. The president and congress had no controversy with either party to the threatened strike. The controversy was between the managers of the railroads and the men who ran the trains. The effect of the strike would have been fearful. Everybody realized this. Telegrams from every part of the union poured in on the president and congressmen praying them to avert the strike. The farmers' and the fruit growers' products would have rotted for lack of transportation. The poor in cities would have suffered for food, for coal and other necessities. The manufac terers of the country, the whole bus iness fabric, would have collapsed. Universal distress and permanent loss of tremendous proportions would have resulted. Such were the conditions the presi dent faced such the calamity he bravely and patriotically averted from the nation. Action, immediate action was demanded and immediate action was taken. Action that was a benefi cence and a blessing to the country. The opulent, sinister, special in terests and persons seeking political capital may condemn the president, but the working men and women, those who would have borne the brunt of the loss and suffering, will not. The controversy was settled right. Neither party to it would have sub mitted to a wrong settlement. The principle of arbitration, always main tained by the president, had no appli cation to a point that eight hours' labor constitutes a lawful day's work already settled by the laws of near ly every state and the laws of the fed eral government in its relation to its own employes and those having con tracts with it. The only force exerted was the moral force of the president's right position backed by the sense and ap proval of the whole people. That was the only force yielded to, and the yielding was done by the railroad magnates, unless yielding to force was done by the seventy republican con gressmen who voted for the eight hour law, and the republican senators who could have prevented its passage but did not, nor made any effort to. The railroads take the position that the question was not an "eight hour day" but "ten hours pny for eight hours' work." The "eight-hour day" never has meant, does not now mean that a man may leave his engine, drop his tools, quit work at the end of eight hours. It has always meant, it meann now that when eight hours' work is done, one day's work ends and another begins. President Wilson saved the country ' from the strike as he has preserved the country from war. The alterna tive the republicans argue for is as worthless and as disastrous in one case as in the other. DISLOYALTY Teachers who, through the public press or by word of mouth, drill dis loyalty into he minds of men and women voters, we refer to especi ally and teachers whose utterances turn the young minds of little chil dren against the government and the flag of their fathers are of the same inhuman stripe. The public schools of the United States exist primarily to make good citizens. Citizenship of sound fiber comprises root-and-branch American ism and loyalty to the democratic principles of law and order. The schools partly fail of their proper functions if they fail to instil their pupils, the future citizens of the na ton, with reverence for law and loy alty to organized society. It is part of the teacher's task to inculcate these qualities of citizenship in the boys and girls under his or her charge. The teacher in a state school is a servant of the state and under obligation to discharge the duties of that service honestly and fully. He or she has a right to private opinions, may, for all the state cares, be an atheist or a religionist, a member of this political party or that. But the teacher is employed by the state to give insruction in such subjects as it deems best, enters into a contract to teach these subjects, and has no right to promulgate personal views in the school as to other subjects. So it is with satisfaction that The Spokesman-Review notices an incident in the schools of Oregon. A woman had been engaged to teach for eight months. For seven, it was charged, she taught anarchy. The governing authorities dismissed her on the ground that by so doing she violated the ruling of the state board of edu cation. She sued to recover her sal ary for the eighth month on the ground of breach of contract. The district court decided against her. She appealed to the supremo court of Oregon. This ruled that under the rules of the educational board teach ers must inclucate proper regard for government and the laws of society, into their pupils and that school boards may legally dismiss teachers "for teaching disloyalty to their gov ernment. The rules of the Oregon board of education are sound. The dismissal of this teacher by the school authori ties, if the facts be as reported, was wise and just. The decisions against her by the courts, judging by the facts alleged, were sound and in the inter ests of public policy and social wel fare. The teacher dismissed had broken her contract with the state. She taught what she was forbiden" to teach and had promised not to teach. Disloyalty to the government cannot be tolerated in schools whose business is to teach patriotism. TRIBUTE TO WILSON Joseph H. Choate, ambassador to Great Britain in the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, an ex president of the American Bar asso ciation, and long a leader of the American bar, and a leading republi can, writing tn the Review of Re views for January, 1915, paid high tribute to Wilson's administration policies growing out of the war. He said: "If we can maintain our neutral ity and keep out of this war and at the same time prove ourselves friend' ly to all the nations engaged in it as I think we shall under the wise and prudent conduct of President Wilson the United States will, I believe, not only be called into consultation by the warring nations, when they are no longer able to keep up the fight, but will practically be able to dictate the terms of peace between them, one of which must, if possible, be an effectual guarantee against any fu ture outbreak of the horrible spirit of militarism which has caused the present war. "And I am encouraged in this be lief by reading the recent message of President Wilson and the annual re ports of the secretaries of war and the navy, which, taken together, ap pear to show a steadfast determina tion on the part of our federal gov ernment to have us prepared always for effectual defense, which is a ne cessary condition of our national ex istence. "Of course, the end of this war will see us by far the most powerful na tion in the world, and if the policy pointed out by Secretary Daniels is pursued, we shall perhaps in the full ness of time become ourselves the mistress of the seas without incurring hostility or attack from any nation and shall be the great factor of pre serving universal peace." Commenting editorially on Mr, Choate's letter, the editor of the Re view of Reviews says: "Surely there is no more approved friend of international peace in our country than the Hon. Joseph H Choate. Read then, what he writes in this number of the Review on our need of efficient means of national defense. He is in perfect agreement with what President Wilson has set forth in his message to congress of December 8. For our part, Presi dent Wilson's words seem statesman like and noble. They are wholly com patible with strict and efficient atten tion to the business of getting the best results out of the vast expendi tures for army and navy that are met by the taxpayers." 1 A SQUELCHER FOR HUGHES THRIFT IN THE HOME Thrift is good management, and nowhere is good manage-, mcnt more manifest than in the home. You can soon tell what manner of housekeeper the wife is, for the impress of her ideals and ideas is on every hand. She can waste nil the husband earns, or she can save the ma jor part. Housekeeping is the most complicated work in the worll, and she who can keep a housa well is a good business woman. She can make her work drudg ery or she can make her work a pleasure. Men fail in business and the world knows it; but how many home failures there are of which the world never hears! It is easy to detect the woman who fails as a house keeper. If you see dishes un washed, the children unkept, clothes strung all over the house the bath littered, the corners dirty and a general air of ne glect, you may depend upon it she has failed as a business housekeeper. She does not know how. Writing in the Ladies' Home Journal, one woman tells how she succeeds as a homemaker and as a business woman in the home. She aims at simplicity. She has simplo furnishings, but good. She has no "parlor" that abomination of olden time, but a living room, where they really live. Most parlors nru merely tfl look at, not to use. She has simple meals things "they are all stuck on," as her little boy puts it, but lots of them. Baked beans only, but lots of them and good. And knows how. who couldn't make a meal on the beans mother used to bake ? She has no curtains at the windows; her windows are for light and air, not to display cur tains and catch the dust and keep out the sunlight. She wastes no food. She allows the children to take only as much as they can eat and no more. St they leave any food on the plate, the next meal begins with that cold plate! Her garbage pail is for waste, not food. "Swell swill" costs money, and "pigs is pigs" and relish potato peel ings as much as ice cream. She doesn't make her attic a junk shop. She makes it a storeroom; cleans it once a year; but that is all. She has order in the kitchen. She saves time by having things in order. She doesn't dry her dishes, but "scalds" them and lets them dry themselves and they can do it bettor than she. She uses a "letter press" to "iron" socks and towels and coarse articles that other wom en break their backs over to no useful purpose. A flrcless cooker saves gas and time and food. She keeps biscuit flour mixed with the pro . per proportion of salt and bak ing powder and biscuits for her oven in five minutes. She has all her kitchen utensils handy, cans and receptacles labeled and thus she saves steps. Some women walk too much on their jobs. She always has change in the house, runs no accounts, pays cash on delivery, weighs her purchases and takes nothing for granted. She keeps ac count of all her expenditures and knows where her money goes and what it buys. She doesn't hire help because sha doesn't need it. She studies her job and succeeds because she THE BANK OF OREGON CITY Oldest Bank in Clackamas County The entrance of a German submar ine into an American seaport a few days ago and its subsequent destruc tion of six merchant ships off the New England coast is a squelcher for Hughes. Listen to the super-wisdom of Hughes' high-sounding boasts, then hear the echo of six merchant ships blown up close to American shores "Deeds, not words," shouts Hughes, "I would have seized every German ship in American harbors after the Lusitania incident," bawls Teddy. And now the people have a powerful demonstration of just what would have happened if either Hughes or Roosevelt had been in the presidentia chair. Germany would have declared war upon the United States for the kaiser at that time was flushed with success on land and sea. And what would have been the re sult of "deeds, not words" ? Suppose the blatant Teddy had been president, what then ? The unexpected appearance oi a German under-sea craft in an Amer ican seaport-is the complete answer. A score or two of underwater raiders would have slipped into American harbors and would have sunk half our navy before we had waked up. They would have blown up hundreds of American ships in our harbors and on the high seas. The coming of the U-53 submarine is final word in the argument with Hughes about the Wilson policies. The blowing up of six merchant ships within sound of our shores by that sea rover sounds the knell of G. 0. P. hopes. . The coming of the German submar ine will elect Wilson, for it proves the wise policy of Hughes, the super-wise man, to be the quintessence of silli ness. The blowing up of six ships in American waters by the kaiser's har dy crew will wnke America up as no thing else could do. Look at the cartoon in the Oregon ian of Tuesday last, entitled "Sudden Interruption," in which Uncle Sam is awakened by the "bang" of "U-boat Attacks" on the Atlantic coast. That cartoon in an ultra G. O. P. naper will make thousands of votes for Wilson. And so the Oregonian has slopped over again, illustrating once again that -the G. 0. P. cam paign from the beginning has been but a slop-over. But the U-Bli is a squelcher foi l Hughes! I " "FICTITIOUS" PROSPERITY called up three of the biggest com panies in St. Louis to give them a big order in the steel business, and each one told me they had so much in hand it was impossible to take on any new business." John M. Hqdge3 of the Fort Dear born National bank, in an article headed "Prosperity to Stay With Us After the War," in the Chicago Amer ican, says: "I believe that the railroads will have more freight and passenger bus iness than they can handle, steam boats will have more tonnage than ever before, steel, woolen and cotton and saw mills and manufactories will be running night and day, and real estate and building operations will be on the most extensive scale ever known. At the world-war's end every belligerent country will be confronted with the greatest demand for the pro ducts of the soil, loom, mill and fac tory. They will buy where they can get the goods quickest, and that mar ket is America." And steel common stock persists in going up. There is something very like in gratitude in some big business inter ests opposing the re-election of Wil son just because he does not allow them to dictate the policy of the American government. GIFFORD AND AMOS Recently a circular, letter, prepared at great expense by Gifford Pinchot, Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania and crammed to its very borders with the big "I" that has been predominant in the life of the man, was snt to most of the newspapers of the United States and, in the course of events, the Courier received its copy. The reverse side was clean and made good scratch paper. But, the point is here Gifford Pinchot's chief statement, af ter he had worn out the "I" on his typewriter, was, "I cannot vote for Wilson because I cannot trust him Therefore, my choice is Hughes." Most of us read the letter and cast it aside as the opinion of one little tiny human being and, therefore, of slight value. No one cares who Gif ford Pinchot is voting for. There are votes aplenty to counteract his great est effort. Most of us neglected to read between the lines of Mr. Pinch ot's letter until the words almost jumped out at us. Between the lines the letter says "I, Gifford Pinchot, am out for Charles Evans Hughes with my vote and labor, with the expectation (as it is currently reported and very gen erally believed) that if Hughes is elected, I. Gifford Pinchot, Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania, will be his secretary of the interior." You all remember Gifford Pinchot, He was a notorious figure in the poli tics of the United States in his palmy days. Just remember, as best you can, the man and his record and ask yourself: "How would I enjoy having Pinchot as secretary of the interior of my nation?" In the same family is that ster ling citizen, Amos Pinchot, brother to Gifford. Amos Pinchot is out' with a strong letter in behalf of President Wilson, maintaining that in him alon lies the hope of securing the kind of legislation to obtain which the pro gressive party was organized. Amos was one of the leading progressives and with the leaders and the rank and file of progressives he is a strong sup porter of Woodrow Wilson, the great est president since Lincoln. THE WAR TO GO ON No foothold for hope of an earty peace is furnished by the recent state ments of Poincare, Lloyd-George, or Bethmann-Hollweg. The president of France declares that French honor is involved in securing for Belgium not only conditionless evacuation, but reparation for her wrongs and protec tion for her future, and that the inter ests of the future generations of France as well as of the world require a record to be made that will effect ively deter other enterprises of mili taristic imperialism. Lloyd-George, proclaiming a fight to a finish, gives warning that at tempted mediation at this time will be regarded as unfriehdly and that British purpose is fixed to lift from the world the menace of Prussian mil itarism. Bethmann-Hollweg, in the German Reichstag, identifying the war as one in defense of the fatherland, in ef fect said that if Germany could again bring July, 1914, she would do again what she did. Germany at one time was ready for peace but the Allies elected to prolong the war. And so, the war is to go on. The world must pay the price. Some day civilization must learn there is a bet ter way to settle international dis putes, but that day is apparently a long way off. Eugene Guard. LODGE TALKS POLITICS The Central Trust company of II linois, Charles G. Dawes, formerly McKinley's comptroller of the cur rency, president, in its published re port for September, reports: For 1915-16 exports greater; im ports greater; balanco of trade in our favor, $219,000,000. Merchant ship ping makes new record; tonnage of American ships three times that of 1914. Financing by corporations more than doubled. Gross and net earnings of railroads greatly in creased; idle cars August 1st, 11,000, against 205,000 a year ago. Frank Carter, vice president of the Mercantile Trust company of St. Lou is, says: "One of the best reasons I know for saying that Woodrow Wilson should be re-elected is the unusual condition in banking circles, in that there is no attention being paid to the election when extending credits, tts has been the case in all previous presidential years. For a friend in Boston I Artisans Will be Addressed by Men Interested in Various Measures The members of the lodge of Arti sans are to devote their meetings be tween now and November to discus sions of the several measures upon which they will vote at the general election November 7. The schedule of metings begins at the lodge rooms tonight with a discussion of various measures presented by C. Schuebel. Mr. Schuebel's talk will be preceded AGED FARMER Made Strong and Well by Vinol This lottor proves thero is nothing equal to Vinol to create strength for weak, run-down conditions. Vestal Centre, N. Y. "I am a far mer 74 years of age and got into a weak, run-down condition as a result of the Grippe. Our druggist suggested Vinol to build me up and I noticed an improvement soon after taking it, and it has restored niv strength so I can now do a good day's work. My wife has also taken Vinol for a run down condition with splendid results." ir li ' t -XI. V. liSTU. Huntley Bros. Co., Druggists, Ore gon City. Also at the leading drug stores in all Oregon towns. I A Hui ry-up-for-School Breakfast For the Children ''(ict up, slwpy heads! Time to get up !" Mother's voice rings cheerily, out and Hoods the room with a radiance an exhil arating as the morning sun streaming in the windows. In a trice there is a riotous scramble from cozy beds, laughing faces scrubbed until they fairly shine, school clothes doned, 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 oues are eating, mother is at the table 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 flour, Three tablespooufuls 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 aud take to the table in a pitcher. 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 teaspoonfuls 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 servesit mellow and hot and wonderfully ap-etizing. Portland Railway Light Power Company The Electric Store Phones Home A-229 Pacific Main 115 Andresen Bldg. 619 Main St. STANDARD GANONG ELECTED OF ALL KINDS If You Want Anything In"" the Drug Line Give Us a Call. Our Place Is HEADQUARTERS For THE PUREST DRUGS Ladies Will Do Well to Visit Our Store For TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMES, MANICURE SETS, ETC. OUR SODAS ARE PURE SO ARE OUR CANDIES. Once Our Customer, Always Our Customer. Jones Drug Co. Oregon City Bank of Commerce Director is Native of Clackamas County At the regular quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Bank of Commerce in this city, J. W. Ga nong was elected a director to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Leroy D. Walker, former president of the institution. The new director, Mr. Ganong, was born and raised in Clack amas county and for a number of i years was agent here for the Portland ' Flouring Mills company. In this con nection he came into close touch with the farmers of the county and he is very well known in the rural popula tion. I Mr. Ganong was formerly acaptain of the national guard company ' in this city. He ranked high as an offi cer and his command was looked upon, it is said, as one of the best compan ies in the regiment. In announcing his connection with the board, the di rectors of the bank say that Mr. Ga nong is a man of good business judg ment and is in close contact with the conservative financial interests of the state. at about $5000 and there are a num" ber of beneficiaries, chief of whom is Joseph L. Mumpower,. husband of de ceased, who is a patient at the state hospital at Salem. The land in the estate is a part of the Horace Baker donation land claim at Stone.. SENTENCED AND FREED by a short musical program and will commence at 8:15 sharp. It is the intention of the Artisans to secure speakers who are well post ed on the different measures, both lo cal and Portland men, and to devote most of each meeting to their dis cussion. The public is invited to at tend. Following the meeting tonigh' dancing will be enjoyed. R. L. Holman, Leading Undertaker, Fifth and Main St.; Telephones: Pa cific 415-J; Home B-18. CITROLAX! CITROLAX! CITROLAX! Best thing for sour stomach, con stipation, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Stops a sick headache almost at once. (Jives a most thorough and satisfactory flushing no pain, no nausea. Keeps your system cleansed, sweet and wholesome. R. H. Wei hecht, Salt Lake City, Utah, writes: "I find Citrolax the best laxatice I ever used. Does not gripe no un pleasant after-effects." Jones Drug Co. An Appreciation Gervais, Oregon, Oct. 8, 1916. To the editor: Enclosed find check to pay sub scription to your valuable paper un til next year. We think the Courier a good paper. The editor is not afraid to tell the public about the crooked work going on in town and country; it holds up all that is good and puts down all that is bad. That is what makes it a good moral paper. Wishing the Courier success, I remain ' J. E. NAYLOR. Judge Campbell Gives Youthful Thieves a Man's Chance Sentenced to from two to five years in the penitentiary and the costs of action assessed against them, Edgar Conboy, August Perry and Ray Piet zold, indicted and tried on a charge of burglary, were paroled Monday by Circuit Judge J. U. Campbell. The boys were found guilty of a series of thefts in the northern part of the county. In sentencing and paroling the boys Judge Campbell said: "In the possibility that you will be better men I am going to give you a chance and let you go on condition that you live up to all the laws of the state and the United States and that you report regularly twice each month in writing to Sheriff Wilson your whereabouts and occupation, and if you ever get out of work you are to report immediately." When renewing your subscription to the Courier remind us of the big magazine offer you ' see advertised elsewhere in this isue. Railway cars would be sanitary if it weren't for the people in them. 'Heir Petitions Lorenzo D. Mumpower of Glad stone on Monday filed a petition to probate the will of his mother, Julia Ann Mumpower, who died at her home at Stone on October 2. The estate consists of 112 acres of landSalued Ml ' I HILK 1 IS YOUR BREAKFAST SATISFYING? When you sit down to the breakfast table are you sure that your Milk or Cream is pure? If it comes from us you are getting the. 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