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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917
OREGON CITY COURIER
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"It gives me a pain in the pit of
my stomach to have a full grown
man, whom I could wallop with one
hand tied behind my back without
half trying, or whom, I could out
work, outrun or outjump, feel that
he has to talk to to me like he would
to some ten-year-old kid, or to some
old woman, because he has happened
to make the discovery that I try to
preach once in a while down at the
Baptist church. More men are hypo
crites in a preacher's company more
times than they are anywhere else.
When the Lord called me to preach he
called me first of all to be a man.
And when I can't be a man with other
men I consider it time to get out of
the ministry.
"I have never been a confessor.
When a man comes to me to tell his
misdeeds, I try to get him to tell to
God and to leave me out.
"If I have some personal matter
with any man I propose to settle it
out of the pulpit. If I can settle it
with him amicably I endeavor to do
so. If one hundred and seventy
pounds of Scotch brawn and good na
ture can't settle any ordinary trouble
without calling in the police or the
church session, then I'm willing to
take my licking like a man, and keep
judiciously quiet about it afterwards."
Lo, the millennium has arrived!
An Oregon City preacher is guilty
guilty of being a man among men,
rather than a saint among sinners
or a sinner among saints. Shall we
burn him at the stake as a heretic
or merely banish him from Rome?
When did the Lord take to calling
men, real honest 170-pound men to
do his gracious work?
Yet, alas and alack, it is true! An
Oregon City preacher signs his name
to a statement that he can take his
"licking" like a man, that he has oc
casionally a pain in the pit of his
stomach just like other mortals.
The preacher who fills his church
to overflowing has discarded the frock
coat, the fiat black hat, the long, sour
face and the sacred, aged doctrine
that to be a Christian a man must be
unworldly in the extreme. He buttons
his collar in front and, perchance,
adorns his manly bosom with a pink
necktie if a loving aunt should send
it in her Christmas package.
The day of the human religion,
Christianity for men and women, is
upon us. The frock coated Binner
who weekly wailed damnation, hellfire
and brimstone is rapidly taking a seat
, in the rear pews. His old stuff don't
touch the modern heart and the mod
ern heart refuses to make the modern
head believe that it can.
Instead, glory be, we have that
school in the ministry which pounds
its sermon notes out on a typewriter,
bolls its coffee in a percolator and
reads Charles Van Loan's horse race
stories with the same whole souled
delight it feels when it lands a two
pound Rainbow, or exhibits the horns
of its last season's deer. Honest to
goodness; friends, some of them don't
even think "damn" is a swear word,
though their gentlemanly modesty
usually forbids its use
It is a school of ministers to men,
A school whose pupils will accom
plish in a single decade more for
Christianity in the name of Christ,
as he intended it should be accom
plished, than all the hypocritical con
glomeration that has graced and dis
graced the pulpit in 20 centuries.
A minister who can take his lick
ing like a man without a whimper
will appeal to men. A minister who
will refuse to shield himself from a
wallop behind the spectacles of re
ligion will appeal to humanity. He
will win human hearts and human
minds to the work of the Lord and
carry the gleaming standard of man
hood's Christianity to the uppermost
pinnacle of service.
Business mottoes are supplanting
time-worn puritanical traditions in
Christianity. Black bow ties are
giving away, figuratively, to the pink
ones and sectarianism is being re
placed by real salvation.
It is better so! To this real Chris
tianity, the Christianity that can take
its "licking" manfully and can out
work, outrun and outjump the sins
that beset this sad old world, we will
open our arms and our hearts and
receive it with a joyous welcome for
a blessing long delayed.
May the school of ministers to
men human, fighting, fishing, laugh
ing, broad-minded men put its pro
duct into the pulpit of every church
in the land, that the churches may
be less and the Christians more.
Amen!
THE SUNDOWN TRAIL
Perhaps those of us who lived at
a time when Buffalo Bill's heroism
was prominent in thought for its
startling reality, when the Indian
tribes of a new nation were but be
ginning their long ride to the happy
hunting ground, when man and beast
roamed free in the great west per
haps we mourn a little more keenly
the passing of Buffalo Bill than do
those to whom the great plainsman
was but the last of the heroes of fic
tion and history.
Buffalo Bill has journeyed to the
end of the sundown trail, whose rug
ged paths he found bravely as he did
the trackless prairies of another age,
and he rests today beneath the blossom-bower
of. love that is a tribute
to his sterling manhood, to his valor,
to his work. He is not dead, the poet
says. Buffalo Bill will live for many
years in the fiction of the dead west
and his symbolic life will be brought
back to us occasionally in the histor
ic annals of man's conquest, of heart's
truth and mind s mastery.
He rests in peace on the plains
that have become populous and high
ly civilized, the plains whose brushy
distances have grown up to humming
industry, to tall buildings, to the
monuments of man the plains he
helped to conquer, the plains he would
not leave until the curtain for the
last act of a great epic drama of hu
man life, venturesome, imaginative,
creative, had gone up on a scene
where orchards, gardens, factories
and cheery homes covered the long
trails of the Golden West.
Buffalo Bill fought his last big bat
tie hand to hand with death with
that same brave vigor that he fought
in the days when the great divide was
opened to him many times by the
snapping bullet of an ambushed red
skin or the flashing teeth of a moun
tain brute.
We may forget the man, for in
death men are too often out of mind,
but forever will remain the monu
ment to his works the west. It is
a fertile little world within itself
that owes its very existence to Buf
falo Bill and his like. And other gen
erations can do themselves no great
er justice nor pay greater respect to
the last of the frontiersmen, whose
unending day is spent in the cold
clay of the prairies he loved so well,
than to make his life, from its dawn
until the last barrier was down and
he stood at the end of the sundown
trail, a model for other lives, whose
glory may be achieved by clean liv
ing and the valor of real manhood.
PROGRESS IN 1916
The unexampled economic progress
of this nation during 1916 was re
fleeted in all the traditional barom
eters that measure the rise and fall
of business. With trade and indus
try booming at record prices, and
with speculation in stocks, grain and
cotton on a noteworthy scale, bank
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clearings naturally made-a phenom
enal exhibit; the unequaled railroad
earnings and the great freight con
gestion testified to the remarkable
volume of traffic handled by the com
mon carriers; ocean transportation
was also taxed beyond its capacity
and shipbuilding experienced a strik
ing revival, while new construction in
other lines participated actively in
the forward movement. The demand
for skilled labor everywhere largely
exceeded the supply, and though the
extreme living costs proved burden
some in many quarters, savings de
posits were swelled materially with
wages at the ' highest point ever
known. Circulation of money
showed a progressive increase, reach
ing its maximum in December, and
investors received unparalleled sums
in interest and dividends, besides ben
efitting in the way of large special
disbursements.
Without exception, leading manu
facturing industries have enjoyed the
most prosperous year of their his
tory, says Dun's Review. Long-established
branches have undergone a
veritable reconstruction, vastly in
creasing their capacity, and produc
tion, though hampered by labor scarc
ity and wage controversies, as well
as by car shortages and paucity of
raw materials, largely surpassed all
previous records. Yet, in spite of the
augmented outputs, supplies were in
sufficient and much profitable busi
ness was rejected, either because of
the inability or disinclination of man
ufacturers to commit themselves mur
ther. The most astonishing feature
was the magnitude and maintenance
of demand, notwithstanding the ex
traordinary rise of prices. In the
rush to cover immediate and far-forward
needs the element of cost was
of secondary consideration with many
buyers and at times some sellers vir
tually withdrew from the markets in
an effort to check the influx of or
ders which they could not. handle, or
were not disposed to accept lest quo
tations change to their disadvantage.
Industrial and commercial develop
ment during 1916 differed from the
experience of certain other years, in
that consumption more than kept pace
with production and thus prevented
the accumulation of stocks that re
sulted disastrously on some former
oocasions.
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The past year has admittedly been
one of the most prosperous for the
farmer in recent history. There has
been a strong and consistent demand
for the products of the farm and
prices have been uniformly good.
Every productive acre has done its
full share toward making profits
larger.
But in this period of active mar
kets and good prices, what have the
unproductive acres been doing for
their owners? What is the record of
the swales and the swamps and the
lands that are so low and wet that
they cannot be worked early enough
in the spring to plant a profitable
crop? Have they been doing any
thing to add to the general prosper
ity? They have not. They have
stood idle and useless at the time
when they should have been paying
for themselves.
The drainage propaganda is no
"ism" and is no fine-spun theory,
It is a straight business problem that
must be solved before the upper Wil
lamette's prosperity is as great as it
ought to be. All the land that is ly
ing practically idle because it is not
drained ought to be producing good
crops. It ought to be an asset to its
owners instead of a liability. It ought
$o be attracting new population in
stead of frightening away the good
farmers who see it and jump to the
conclusion that the country is no good.
It ought to be changed over from the
non-productive to the productive vol
umn. It cannot be repeated too often
that drainage is an investment and
not an expense. The man who de
cides to drain his land is merely put
ting up a few dollars so that he can
get more dollars back. The farmer
who has low, wet land and fails to
drain it is like the merchant who has
a . good display and does not use it.
Both are neglecting opportunities for
profit. Register.
Obituaries
John Graw
John Graw, for many years a night
watchman at the Crown-Willamette
mills here, died at his home at Bol
ton Thursday night, aged 48 years,
Mr. Graw is survived by his widow
and four children, John, Agnes, Es
ther and Joseph. He was a native of
Iowa.
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J. S. Yoder
Funeral services for J. S. Yoder,
who died at his home at Yoder, were
held there on Thursday with the Rev.
F. C. Butler of the Congregational
church officiating. Six sons were the
pallbearers. Mr. Yoder, a native of
Missouri, came to Clackamas county
in 1889 and had lived on the same
farm in the south end of the county
ever since, following farming and
sawmill occupations He was known
as an active worker in the church and
his pride was in service. He is sur
vived by six grown sons and , two
daughters. Many friends and rela
tives attended the funeral Thursday
and there were many beautiful floral
offerings.
TALK RURAL CREDITS
N. L. Allen
N. L. Allen, aged 63, was buried
on Saturday from the1 Lutheran
church at Canby. Mr. Allen died at
his home at New Era on Monday,
January 8, but the body had been
held at the Holman parlors here pend
ing the arrival of a sister from North
Dakota. Mr. Allen was a bachelor
and a native of Norway. He had
been living at New Era for the past
11 years, where he had another sis
ter, Mrs. Meten.
Mrs. Mary Maple ,
Funeral services for Mrs. Marv E.
Maole. who died at the home of hnr
son, William, at Canby Thursday
morning, were held from the M. E.
church in Oregon Citv on SaturHav
morning, the Rev. W. B. Moore of
uanby officiating. Interment was in
Mountain View. Mrs. Maple was a
native of Pennsylvania, where she
was born October 22, 1837. She lived
in Oregon City until seven years ago,
when she moved to Canbv. Mr.
Maple died here in 1890. Mrs. Maple
is survived by four children: George
R. Maple, Portland; William, Canby;
E. J., Mulino, and Mrs. Jennie Butts,
Parkplace. The body was at the Hol
man parlors.
Plan to Put Amendment Into Work
ing Order
Members of the state land board,
of the grange and others interested
in advancement of rural credits legis
lation held a meeting at State Treas
urer Kay's offices in Salem last week
and formulated the plan for legisla
tion desired to place the rural credits
amendment in operation as soon as
possible. The rules and regulations
governing loans under the amendment
will be left largely discretionary with
the land board, according to the plans
outlined.
The legislature, will be asked to
pass merely the legislation that is
specifically pointed out in the amend
ment, with one addition, suggested by
Mr. Kay relative to loans on adjudi
cated water rights appurtenant to ir
rigated lands. The amendment, in
making it mandatory that the legisla
tive assembly provide legislation
relative to the rural credits funds
provided that "such safeguards shall
include clear definitions of the terms
'occupy' and 'operate' used herein."
The ligislature is asked to define such
terms.
Provision also is asked, in line
with Mr. Kay's request, that loans
shall be made upon adjudicated water
rights appurtenant to irrigated lands
up to fifty per cent of their value.
This is a question which has caused
considerable interest in the eastern
Oregon counties and it is understood
that the eastern Oregon members are
anxious that the provision be con
tained. Otherwise, it is stated, the
question of how loans could be made
under the fund on lands of that char
acter would be thrown into consider
able confusion.
As the greater share of the irri
gated land is of no value without
water, a question is presented as to
whether any loans whatever might be
made on such lands if no specific pro
vision was made relative to the water
rights. The outline of the proposed
legislation will be turned over to At
torney General Brown to draft a bill
and it is probable the bill will be pre
sented to the legislature some time
next week.
CLIMBED STAIRS
ON HER HANDS
Too ill to Walk Upright. Operation
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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
360 BUSINESS FAILURES
Fly-by-Night Merchants Blamed for
Oregon Record. Less Than 1916
Although there is encouragement
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This woman now raises chickens and
;es manual labor. Reau her story:
Richmond, Ind. "Fcr t.vu years I
,vaa so sick and weak with troubles
from ny age that
when c o i n g up
stairs I had to go
very siowiy with
my hands on the
steps, then sit down
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and rr.y friends
thought J would not
live to move into
our new house. My
daughter asked me
to try Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable
Compound as she had taken it with good
results. I did so. my weakness dis
appeared, I gained in strength, moved
into our new home, did all kinds of
garden work, shoveled dirt, did build
ing and cement work, and raised hun
dreds of chickens and ducks. I can
not say enough in praise of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
if these facts are useful you may pub
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women." Mrs. M. O. Johnston, Route
Box 190. Richmond, Ind.
in the fact that there were less busi
ness and commercial failures in Ore
gon this year than there have been
for a number of years, there is still
a very startling story to be told about
the failures of 1916. No doubt the
fact that there were 360 business fail
ures in Oregon in 1916 is due to the
inexperience of those who launched
enterprises and because of the prob
able inclusion in these figures of those
increasing fly-by-night business men,
who locate long enough to dispose of
a few shoddy pieces of aged mer
chandise and move on to greener
fields. ,
In 1916 there were 360 failures in
Oregon's business world. During the
previous year, 1915, 393 failures
were reported. The total assets of
business places that failed last year
was $2,391,216, and liabilities were
$4,243,438. Assets averaged $6642,
and liabilities $10,676. With 393 fail
ures in 1915 the average liability was
$9226. .Therefore, although there
were fewer failures last year, it is ap
parent that more money was involved.
There was no bank failure in this
state in the year just past. In 1916
there were five less failures in Wash
ngton than in Oregon, in spite of
the fact that in 1915 there were 132
more in Washington than in this
state. Of the Oregon business fail
ures 110 were manufacturing enter
prises with total liabilities of $2,698,-
243; 210 trading businesses with lia-
biliies totalling $1,206,333 and 31
miscellaneous commercial failures
with total liabilities of $338,862.
Un the facinc coast, uregon,
Washington, California, 2195 business
undertakings failed in 1915, as com
pared wih 1845 in 1916, and liabili
ties were one-third lower this year.
The total number of failures in the
United States in 1915 was 22,156 and
in 1916, 16,993. While there were
133 bank failures in the United States
in 1915 there were but 50 in the past
year. Of the manufacturing indus
tries which failed within the last five
years clothing and millinery manu
facturers to the number of 3553 have
headed the list Last year there
were 565 failures in this line, com
pared with 858 in 1915. The liabil
ities in such firms averaged low, how
ever. Grocery, meat and fish trades
men failed in greater number last
year and within the past five years
than any others. There were 3599
such failures last year, bringing the
total up to 15,603 for the five year
period. The average liability was
$3592.
Only 11 states in the entire union
had a larger number of failures in
1916 than did Oregon. In 1915 Ore
gon had less failures in number than
20 other states.
The Pacific coast made a better
record in reduction of failures in
trading enterprises than any other
section of the country, having reduced
the 1915 number by 323. Oregon was
the only state whose previous fail
ures had greater liabilities in 1916
that in the previous year.
Courier Mid Daily Journul $4.75.
Scandinavian Service
There will be a Scandinavian ser
vice in the Methodist church in Ore
gon City next Sunday at 3 o'clock.
Rev. John Ovall will preach. Good
songs and music will be rendered.
The Scandinavian Ladies' Aid will
meet at W. Bergsen's, Gladstone, next
Tuesday.
Courier and Daily Journal $4.75.
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Do You Know
that Saturday, January 20th
1917 is positively the last
day of the big closing out
sale at Eddy's store, well it
absolutely is and you surely
will save money by coming
to this sale during the next
two final days
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