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4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 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 $ 1.60. 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 CITIE9 A WORTHY BOYCOTT A subject that has received many columns of press space, both as news and editorial matter, within the past fortnight, is the high cost of living. Since the days of the proverbial pup, Hec, the high cost of living has been on the tip of the housewifely tongue, yet the cost continues to go skyward at an alarming rate. Insane poli ticians have told us with all sincer ity that the president had the power to control this flight and congression al committees have battled bravely to understand and regulate it. But it is only within the past fort night that the housewife has come into a full understanding of the situ ation. It is only in that time that she has realized to any extent her great power in controlling the cost of food. She is just now coming into the knowledge that she alone has the power to regulate the cost of neces sities and it appears that she is go ing to exercise that power in no un certain manner. "Boycott" is a terrible word, but it signifies, when properly applied, a service to society the society of hovel and mansion alike. And a boycott is what the housewives of America are planning. May their plans succeed against the wily crim inals whose hold on the purse strings of the nation's homes has lasted suc cessfully through these many gener ations. Just pause for a moment and con sider where that noble Chicago gen tleman whose massive warehouses hold 6,000,000 dozen eggs in. storage would get off if the housewives of America boycotted his eggs and the eggs of other schemers who defy the world and say "the public must pay the price." This Chicago gentleman tells us that he was "stung" last year, but that he has. been educated, has bought all the eggs he could get and will sit tight on the lid of his cold storage plant and wait for the sea son's highest price before he sells a single egg. Worthy citizen of a free country, how proud you must be of your intellectual self? Turkeys, just before Thanksgiving day, advanced to such an excessive price in Clackamas county as well as elsewhere that only those homes whose incomes could take care of lux uries could eat of the festive bird. The housewife has only herself to blame if such a thing happens again. The housewife now has only herself to blame if eggs sell at 50 and 60 cents a dozen. Let her boycott the dealer, who in turn must boycott the commision merchant who is holding great stocks of the necessities of life for higher prices, and we will see that beautiful day when the cost of living shall have resumed its normal plane and we shall be able to understand the reason for banks, to whose valuts our money has been a stranger since living went to visit Mars. When eggs, meat, potatoes or any other article of food gets to such a price that its cost is utterly unrea sonable the housewife should con spire with her sisters throughout the land and refuse absolutely to buy un til prices were lower. There isn't a dealer or commission merchant in the land who could withstand the con certed boycott of the housewives' union. The dealer usually isn't at fault. He buys from the commission merchant and must pay the price and sell at a corresponding price. The housewife has the commission merch ant and the speculator under her thumb and all that is needed is bear down heavily upon the defiant, pros trate form is the united action of those who manage the home. We would like to see the women squash the very life out of the food specu lator and others responsible, for he is an animal of fiendish design, unfit to live among us. The producer will not suffer through a boycott directed by the housewife. The producer today gets next to nothing for the commodity, that brings the speculator so much profit. The producer would get as much or more for his wares as he does now, but the margin of profit between the producer and the specu lator would be reduced. Let us have a boycott. ""WHAT IS A CONVICT Now that the old order has been changed at the state penitentiary, and the new warden, Charles A. Mur phy, has been quietly inducted into office, we would like to direct a ques tion to Governor James Withycombe, and hope for a personal answer. Will the governor please state for the edification of his constituents ust what is a convict? Between Governor Withycombe and a pack of f urbelowed reformers we have gained the idea that a con vict is a favored sort of a citizen whose crime, heinous as it may have been, is the purchase price of a meal ticket for life; the cost of a warmer, more springy bed than his more fa vored brother on the outside can en joy; the cost of a perennial pass to the evening moving picture show. plenty of tobacco and equipment for the whole calendar of sports, with a little labor thrown in occasionally to tone up the muscles and regulate the digestive apparatus. The thief, the murderer, the be- guiler, the seducer, the arson fiend the general riff-raff of the lawless element whose defiance of society has taken the form of a crime, hob-nobs with the unfortunate sirmer who went astray on life s devious path and who is forced by the grim hand of "just ice" to live his life behind the iron bars. The thief and the murderer sleep upon the same bed with the poor devil who grasped a crust of bread from the corner grocery to keep his baby from starvation; the thief and the murderer eat at the same table, they laugh at the same moving pic ture comic and they enjoy the same good reading matter. And, like as not, they will be paroled as soon as the man who stole a chicken to make broth for his dying wife. And then comes a heathenish, In humanly cruel and morally perverse warden. He studies the criminals and their crimes. He lives among them, seeing into their natures and watching their actions. He picks out the uncontrollable ones, the men whose hearts are steeped in sin and whose minds are a mass of evil thought whose souls know nothing IT Should be borne in mind that saving money is the start towards wealth. Every man i CAN'T Get rich, but everyone can save something. No matter how small your income may be, if you make up your mind to lay up a part of your earnings every week, it may RAIN And then rain some more, but with a snug little sum to your credit in the bank you can laugh at hard times and poverty. While the Sun of Prosperity is shining is the time to save for the rainy days that are ALWAYS Bound to come. We can help you save; our Savings Department does the business. $1.00 will start an account. We furnish a bank book and savings bank-free of charge. Start saving today. The Bank of Oregon City clean or pure. These men there are many of them in our prison regard the rule of their comfortable home more as a joke than anything else and they defy their warden. And the hose is turned on them. Poor warden! he is up against it. He can only tell these nice, clean, so ciable thieves and murderers that they are disobedient. He cannot even so much as slap them on their dainty wrists. He plays the fifty-fifty game throughout. If the prisoners are perfect gentlemen the warden will be a gentleman. If they treat him with respect and don't talk back to him, the warden will be very good to the prisoners. But if the prisoners are bad boys and don't mind their law-father then the warden yes, then! he'll be good to them in any case, and will take them to Sunday's chicken dinner and to the evening picture show just the same as if they had been very, very good. The gov ernor's orders! The good prisoners are no better than the bad prisoners and the nature of the crime is not the gauge of prison freedom, for the warden must simply be the warden in any case. Along comes the one warden, amid many changes of prison administra tion, who has the temerity, the sense of right, to turn the hose on a few of the vile wretches whose crimes are too heinous to record. He measures a man by his crime and by his action in the prison. He finds a few of them disobedient to every authority and de fiant of every order. He turns the hose on them. Good-bye, warden, the ' governor's going to get your scalp. And a new warden, a fifty-fifty gentleman who plays square as long as the convict is square and after that plays square anyhow, is politely shown into the commodious quarters of his pred ecessor and told to take charge. Now mind you, warden, if you dare to turn the hose on one of the vicious brutes behind the bars in our prison you will have your official title am putated in no time at all. A convict comes to our prison to be made into a perfect gentleman through frequent attendance at the picture show, the baseball game, the library, the dining room and very, very seldom at the workshop. Your free meal ticket lasts as long as you are good and when you are bad we will feed you just the same. We shall never, nev er think of turning the hose on you to prevent you from murdering a harmless little guard and we'll have clean sheets on your bed every week. Let us hope that Charles A. Mur phy has the backbone to order a hos ing when a hosing is needed to calm the inflamed spirits of his charges. He will lose his official head, but we will shortly run out of the supply of wardens and will have to put up with a man brave enough to treat his charges in accordance with their mer its. If they are bad slap them on their pretty wrists. If they are good give them an extra ticket to our nice warm picture show. Sure, the taxpayer will kick at the bill of en tertainment, for Oregon's prison is a comfortable home for indigent citi zens. It is not and so help James Withycombe, it never will be a place for the punishment of those men and women who find it inconvenient to uphold the laws of the state. WE RISE TO REMARK There is a .little lesson in loyalty that should be brought hime to Ore gon City and Clackamas county with the approach of another gay Christ mas season. It is. the lesson we have heard these many years and so fre quently that its repetition grates upon our nerves until we would like to throw from us the paper that car ries the message, "Trade at "Home." It is simple and it is overworked. Yet there a;'e very few more trading at home today than there were last year or the years before that. Gradually, though, the spirit of loyalty will get under our hides and Oregon City and Clackamas county will gets its just return of the money we earn here. More than ever be fore the merchants of this city and county have stocked their shelves in advance for the business of the Christmas season. There is in the stores of this city and county an ar ray of Christmas wares that has no superior, even in Portland. It may be a more limited stock, but it is here in quantity sufficient to supply our every need. The local merchant has built up a splendid business by the sheer weight of his confidence in the city and coun ty. He is spending the money he earns to build up the city and he is paying wages to local people. Yet there are those who would prefer to do their Christmas shopping in Port land for the mere sake of getting in the madly pushing throngs about the bargnin counters. There are few bar gain counters in Oregon City. The margin of profit on goods sold here is smaller than in Portland, where merchants suffer from excessive over head, and the best can be had here for the price of the cheapest in Port land. It is a duty we owe to our city and its future to spend our Christmas money at home. Our business cannot thrive while our citizens spend their money in the metropolis and it is high time that we turned our full atten ton to home trade. We realize what a tiresome song "buy it in Oregon City" gets to be after you have heard it for the 'steenth time, but if we would all adopt the slogan the neces sity for it would disappear. Just pay a visit to your home stores, no matter what your Christ mas wants may be, and we will war rant that you will find it as easily and as reasonably supplied as it could be in Portland. You don't find the Portland merchants bringing any money back to Oregon City for in vestment and there appears no logic al reason why Clackamas county peo ple should spend their money, earned here, to build up Portland at the ex pense of our own cities and towns. The Courier and the Daily Jour nal $4.75. SE3IVELY 2:45 A HOUSE. DEC. 14-15 TWICE DAILY 8:15 THE ELLIOTT & SHERMAN FILM CORPORATION (H. S. SHERMAN, PRESIDENT) PRESENTS THE WORLD'S GREATEST MOST SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN PLAY DAVID W. GRIFFITH'S MASTERPIECE Cost $500,0001 TOir 18,000 People r M A T I N E E 2:45 PRICES 25c 50c 3,000 Horses E V E N I N G 8:15 PRICES 50c 75c n. Scenes, 5,000 ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR OWN GRAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MILLIONS HAVE SEEN IT AND MILLIONS WILL SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN THE "MASTER-CRAFT" OF "FILM PERFECTION" SEAT SALE OPENS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9th AT JONES DRUG STORE 25c Per Month is the Average Cost of Operating a Mitchell Water System Vis? J V5& a " Don't Envy the City Man's Home ake Him Envy Yours! 'The city man envies the ruralite for his pure air, his elbow room and his broad guage life In general but he pities him for one thing His Water Supply. A few years ago and this pity was well founded, but now the shoe Is on the other foot. Mllwaukie. Ore. itntlemen: About two yean ago you Installed one of your Mitchell Pneumatic Water Syi teme In my park and I have had tame In continuous use ever, since and can recommend It as being a very satisfactory water system from every viewpoint. We use a great deal of water as at times there art several thou sand people In the park and we And the Mitchell System far su perior to the system which we used previous to Installing yours. Our system Is automatic and re. quires little attention aside from Oiling. Yours very truly. Ul IW fi Wl TTE. THE Water The System for the country or suburban home has sol ved your problem. The time was when you had either to be content with an elevated tank, a constant eyesore, Co4lfY that served warm water in summer or as likely frozen w Jr 3 Ivl 1 1 Up ja wiuter or do without water pressure entirely. The MITCHELL SYSTEM enables you To use at MUCH water as you wish WHEN YOU WISH, to have as MANY faucets as you want WHERE wu want them at no extra cost; to regulate your own pressure as MUCH or as LiTTLE as you wish ; to use your water for gar dening Irrigating sprinkling or for whatever other purpose you may desire. That's why a MITCHELL WATER SYSTEM gives you the best of the City Man. Tho Mitchell Water Syntom nupplk-s you with unlimited dependable supply of pure cool witter tit no wore cut ( uhuh! ly not as much ) per nion til tint n Is pit Id by the aver ii Ke city mun far lilu rtjHtrlcted mipply. This 1h not bo of other water systems, which often im n souree of a great deal more trouble thuu ftiitlsfnetkiii owing to improper construction or poor Installation, Wo have Instiilled hun dreds of Mitchell Systems In all parts of the Northwest they ore giving satisfaction to every buyer. We, If given the opportunity, will jjlndly give you the benefit of mir six years' experience In tht pneumatic water supply line. We will plan for your home u Mitchell (System that will exactly tit your requirement that will give you serv ice which will pleuse. you now and continue to do so for ytwra and years that's our policy ('(IMl'LKTR. AND PKHMA NENT SATISFACTION TO EVERY HOY RK ft ml we have the goods that uphold every claim we make for theiu. Write iih today for our free book on country and suburban wuter supply systems. Ask for book. Stover Engine Myr Pumps Implements and Vehicles PORTLAND - OREGON Spokane Boise ME. REYNOLDS of Clackamas, Oregon, has a MITCHELL SYSTEM. lam am . . torn wm IfrwHrtPj; j a " W. J. WILSON & CO., Oregon City Agent BURNS IS APPOINTED Former Oregon City Policeman Will Become Deputy Warden at Pen Charles E. Burns, for 18 years chief of police in Oregon City, has been advised of his appointment as deputy warden of the state peniten tiary under Warden Charles A. Mur phey. Mr. Burns will take up his new duties with the retirement of Deputy Warden Sherwood on January 1. Mr. Burns was one of the foremost can didates for the position Mr. Murphey was selected to fill. The new deputy warden was dep uty United States marshal for eight years and he also served Clackamas county as a deputy recorder for two years. Mr. Burns was born in Oregon City and is 61 years old. Practically his entire life has been spent in this city. The selection of an assistant was left with Mr. Murphey when he was appointed to succeed Warden Minto and he turned immediately to Mr. Burns. As a police officer and as deputy United States marshal Mr. Burns achieved a reputation as a police offi cer and his friends are confident that he will make a cheditable record in his new position.' Circuit Court Orders A default decree was entered Tues day in favor of J. C. and M. H. Kaupisch in their action against Pres ton and Michael Pendleton et al., to quiet claims to property here. J. B. McFarland won judgment Tuesday from S. Masters in the sum of $340, with interest at 8 per cent and $50 attorneys' fees. A judgment of $15u, with interest at 8 per cent and $25 attorneys' fees was entered Tuesday in favor of Matt Didzner in his suit against R. E. Mor rell, administrator of the estate of Louis Morell. The suit of C. E. Somers against Nathan E. Harvey was dismissed upon motion of attorneys for Mr. Somers. Our Jitney Offer This and 5c DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave., Chi cago, 111., writing your name and ad dress clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kid ney Pills for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cathar tic Tablets, a wholesome and thor oughly cleansing cathartic, for con stipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels. Jones Drug Co. Courier and Daily Journal $4.75. SSH STAMPS 6IVN VALUES &on C&tfong Co MORRISON 4IS If Ii an SSH STAMPS MEN SUITS OVERCOATS RAINCOATS nv C&tfona Go. 166-170 THIRD ST C7 Double S. & H. Green Trading Stamps given wben this ad Is presented within ten days of date. EQUAL TO CASH DISCOUNT. PORTLAND, OREGON c. o.c. Dec. 7,'1
