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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916
OREGON CITY COURIER
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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."
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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.
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Phones Home A-229
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Andresen Bldg. 619 Main St.
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Ladies Will Do Well to Visit Our
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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
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