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4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL" 19, 1917 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 $1.60. Telephones: Pacific 61; Home A-51. MEMBER OP WILLAMETTE VALLEY EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OP OREGON STAT E EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN , ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES . MEN AND MONEY The possibility that the war may not stop at once, as we had almost hoped it would, leaves America to solve a problem in finance that threat ens to involve all the sciences and arts of our national life. How is America to pay for her part in the war? True, enough, congress has seemed to take care of a part of the possible cost through the $5,000,000,000 bond issue and the $2,000,000,000 issue of treasury certificates authorized this week. That, however, is but a frac tion of what will be needed if we act ually get into the fighting and into the business of lending our gold to our allies. Meanwhile, we proceed gracefully at the task of "drafting" men into the service of the flag. All of which is good and as it should be. There Is only one fault about the draft plan or the idea of conscription of men. The fault is that it applies only to men and provides no means whereby we can pay the bill that our drafted army will cost. Congress has yet to solve the prob lem of war financing more capably than by a bonding scheme. It has to offset the conscription or draft of men by some equally efficacious manner of getting dollars. The men will be prompt and willing enough if the money to feed and clothe them is as sured by some practical plan. Why not, as has been repeatedly suggested, apply the rules of, con scription to money? Why send our sons from the firesides of home to the battlefields while our plutocratic gent ry sits idly by to criticise or to praise our activity? There is no denial for the fact that the poorer classes, generally speak ing, pay the greater share of the bill of war. They are the first and usual ly the last to risk their lives. And they are the first to give up their homes and their incomes for the mea gre sustenance provided by the pres ent army plan. Gentlemen of leisure, mahogany bound capitalists, do not serve their country's flag in one way or another. They join ambitious societies for the promotion of the welfare of the poor soldier, but they lay down on the job of helping the soldier fight his bat tles. They and their government are not practical. But it all simmers down to this: The United States faces the necessity of conscription of troops and conscrip tion of money. That means thai; the government must confiscate the for tunes of its well-to-do idlers in equal proportion to its confiscation of the lives and incomes of its soldiers. An income tax is the only apparently practical solution for the situation. We have not the heart to' send the small home owner to war and tax his little plot of ground for his support. Taxation of income, on the other hand, could apply only to those able finan cially to bear the burden; and con gress should set about doing that very thing at once. We would be hartily in favor of taxing all incomes above say $5000 a year on a graduated scale. The greater the income the greater the tax, until the miximum income would be turned over to the government in tact confiscated. Perhaps such a plan might result in giving honor where honor is due to the man on the firing line through the payment to him of a decent wage for his val iant service. destroying instead of producing. Our own tillers of the soil must assume as much as possible of the duty neces sarily neglected by those 40,000,000. We need soldiers and sailors today. But we need farmers just as much, Says B. F. Loakum, one of the na tion's foremost railroad men: "For every man who must shoul der a rifle for military duty we had better furnish inducement for another to take up a hoe for farm work. For every farm laborer who leaves the farm for the ammunition factory tb earn $3 a day we had better offer in ducements to the farmers to speed up their efforts to feed the people, and show them how they will be just ified in going to the labor market and paying good wages for the same class of labor for farm work as the gun and battleship factories pay labor to serve the government." This fact cannot . be too strongly emphasized. Desirable as it is to fill up the army and navy, it is no less desirable that the farms should have their full complement of men. It is not desirable in this emergency for our farmers to "beat their plowshares into swords." In the planting time of 1917, it is just as patriotic to drive a plow as to carry a rifle or point battleship gun. In the same connection the Eugene Register remarks: The producer is not the only one who is called upon to help in the emergency that is arising. The consumer must do his part With a shortage of the wheat crop in prospect, it behooves the people of the United States to revive on a large scale the custom of eating corn bread to the end that the wheat crop may be husbanded as closely as pos sible. Corn bread, if properly pre pared, is delicious and every pound of corn that is used for bread in Ameri ca means a pound of wheat released for export at a time when sending food across the ocean is the best way to aid in the war. Corn can be used in many ways to substitute for wheat. Many Oregon poultrymen are in the habit of feeding wheat to their fowls, and it might be well for them to in vestigate tne merits ot cracked or ground corn. REFORMING PRISONS SOLDIERS OF AGRICULTURE "It is with the men who are in pris on, and who are coming out some day, that we are most concerned. With that outburst as a statement of his policy as a member of the pris on survey board, E. E. Brodie, editor of the morning mystery, takes up prison reform in his usual boisterous style of journalism, and straddles the Courier for believing that prison out- mates are more important to Oregon's social scheme than prison inmates. The Courier does not deny Mr. Bro die the right to his opinian, but it does not believe his opinion in this case is worth the 19 column inches of Enter prise editorial space he uses to ex press it, As a member of the prison survey board Mr. Brodie, perforce, supports anything that savors of pris on reform, unworthy though it is. It is with the men who are in pris on thatthe Courier is concerned in its belief that a new prison would be a waste of hard-earned money. Human beings have no business being in pris on. If they held any sacred regard for the laws of our land there would be no need for prison walls. We can hardly bring ourselves to the belief that the days of capital punishment were best for the criminal world, yet there was a marked antipa thy toward being hung. When we used to whail wife-beaters at the pub I lie stake there were few citizens who Only one family out of throe in the attempted to chastise the frau. When United States is engaged in agricul tural production, says The Dalles Chronicle. Thus every farmer must produce food for two families in addi tion to his own, if the wants of our people are to be satisfied. To this need must be added the foreign de mand, far greater this year than ever before. Whether we like it or not, much of our food will be drained off by Europe. It is estimated that 40,000, 000 men today are withdrawn from agricultural work by military exigen cies, engaged only in consuming and we make prisons as uncomfortable as they can be made our citizens will not be so anxious to lanquish pleasant years away inside their grim walls. We don't deny that every vestige of cheer and comfort has been taken out of the Oregon Stato Penitentiary during its years of faithful service in correcting the criminally inclined. And at the same time we do not see so many, proportionately with our population, seeking admittance to its portals. It seems a highly unequal, unjust thing to tax the dear pee-pul for the support of such luxury as they cannot afford to provide for themselves. Mr. Brodie says sentiment in connection with prison reform is silly. Regard less of that, it is a fact that a new prison would give the criminals a bet ter home than peaceable and upright citizens could equip for themselves. When we get away from the idea of giving robbers, murderers, forgers and panderers couches of downy ele gance we may get closer to the reali zation of the same delights for the people who live in accord with the rules and regulations of decent citi zenship. The taxpayer whose home is rob bed, whose family rights are violated, whose barn is burned, whoso friend is murdered, is asked to keep the per petrator of these crimes in the refine ment of a modern prison home de signed by E. E. Brodie that he may justify to Governor Withycombe that executive's faith in making him a member of the survey board. The tales of prison discomforts cannot be as truthful as the reform ers would have us believe either, be cause we have seen the laws violated repeatedly that the gentlemen who have attracted Mr. Brodie's sympa thy might enjoy the comforts provid ed inside prison walls. While Mr. Brodie and his Morning Enterprise is a reformer of prisons the Courier will temporarily take up on itself the duties of reformer of re formers of prisons, resting assured that prison outmates deserve at least as much as the criminal inmates, and until such time as the outsider gets justice from any money spent in Oregon. Obituaries Mrs. Jane Wilkinson Mrs. Jane Wilkinson, a resident ot Oregon City since early days, died at her home here last evening at the age of 75 years. Mrs. Wilkinson, a nat ive of Ireland and a resident of Ore gon City since April 14, 1867, had suffered for several weeks from Bright's disease, and her death had been expected by a great number of friends. Mrs. Wilkinson was married in August, 1860, to James Wilkinson, a childhood friend, and three years lat er they came to America, and in 1867 to Oregon City. The couple cele brated their golden wedding anniver honor the flag and always have it on display in my schoolroom! If there are none, I always buy them with my own money! I challenge anyone to prove that I have at any time or place said anything that could even be misconstrued. The idea is absurd. ROBERT GINTHER. Daughter in Terrible Shape Women bear troubles more bravely than men. They smile and suffer pain uncomplainingly where a man demands a doctor and nurse. A. Mitchell, Bagdad, Ky., writes: "My daughter was in terrible shape with kidney trouble. I got her to take Fo ley Kidney Pills and she is complete ly cured." Aching back, sore mus cles, stiff joints, shooting pains In sides, rheumatic aches, are indications that the kidneys are not working properly. Foley Kidney Pills cor rect bladder troubles. Jones Drug Co. C. E. PROGRAM READY Committee Announces Tentative Pro gram for Gladstone Convention The committee in charge of plans for the Clackamas County Christian Endeavor convention, to be held at Gladstone May 5 and 6, met Monday evening at the home of Dr. Roy A. Prudden, the chairman. Details of the program were discussed, the out line of which is as follows: May 6 9:00, registration and Ex pert examination; 12:00-1:30, lunch eon and address of welcome by Rev. O. H. Curtis, Gladstone Christian church; 1:30, school of methods; Dis cussion of Social work, led by G. Evart Baker; Missionary work, Miss Estelal Ford; Lookout work, Miss Helen Orr; Prayer meeting work, Lloyd Carrick; 4:00, recreation and business session; 6:30, banquet served by ladies of Gladstone; 7:45, address es by Rev. E. E. Gilbert, Oregon City M. E. church, and Dr. W. T. Milliken, Oregon City Baptist church. May 6-rll:00, address by Rev. C. A. Phipps, Oregon Sunday school su perintendent; 2:30, Address,' Dr. Geo. B. Pratt, Portland; 6:30, Christian Endeavor meeting, E. E. Feike, lead er; 7:46, address, Lloyd Carrick. Several short song services will be led by Dr. Roy Prudden. Messrs. Baker, Carrick, and Feike have each served as president of the Oregon Christian Endeavor union, and are forceful and entertaining speakers. Miss Ford and Miss Orr are well known throughout the state and are authorities on the phases of sary with some ceremony a few years Endeavor work they wm preSent. agU. UI.Lt TT IIIVIIIOUII aixu 1.111 CO Ui. their eight children survive Mrs. Wil kinson. The children are Mrs. Mar tha Blakeslee and Mrs. W. B. Wig gins, of Portland, and Miss Georgia Wilkinson, of this city. Frank L. Bagby Frank L: Bagby, for many years prominent in this county as a saw mill operator, died Tuesday afternoon at the Sellwood hospital after a long period of suffering. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bagby, Ore gon pioneers, and had been a resident of this county all his life. Funeral services were held in Molalla this afternoon with interment in the Dart cemetery. Those who survive Mr Bagby are his mother, aged 87 years, and six brothers, J. R. Bagby and Jesse Bagby,. of Molalla; Calvin Bag by, Oregon City; Henry Bagby, Klam ath Falls; Edward Bagby, Weed, Cal., and four sisters, Mrs. Margaret Pek ley, Molalla; Mrs. Eliza Hamilton, Fairview, Ore.; Mrs, Flora E. Jarish, Oswego, and Mrs. Mary Walling, 1075 East Yamhill street, Portland. DOC "GETS" CO. A BOY jfuJ jj inn I gig "Oldest, Lareest and Strongest Bank in Clackamas County." Savings--as well as Commercial Banking TPHE Bank of Oregon City maintains a Savings Department in addition to every facility for Commercial Banking. Interest, computed twice each year, is paid on savings. Any person of any age or condition of finance may open a Savings Account with us. If you cannot call at the bank, write us for in formation about opening a Savings or Checking account by MaiL Either one, or both forms of banking may be thus conducted. THE BANK Of OREGON CITY Soldier Pays Two Days' Wages For Paltry Prescription in Oregon City The Courier does not know who the Oregon City doctor is who exacted $1.00 from the meagre $15 of the monthly salary of one of Uncle Sam's men, But the lack of knowledge does not make the offense any the less questionable in the minds of those of our citizens who are at all times anx ious to make the soldier's underpaid burden as light as possible upon the shoulders that are valiantly wearing the olive drab in defense of the na tion's honor, even though that costs life itself. The following is the story told to the McMinnville Telephone-Register by one of the guardsmen stationed in Oregon City: "Here is a little item which illustrates the greed which ex ists too often to make money out of war conditions. A member of Co. A doing guard duty at Oregon City was suffering from a severe headache, and applied to a doctor there for a pre scription, for which the doctor charg ed one dollar. The soldier boy had but 90 cents in his pocket, so he paid the charge with a check on a McMinn ville bank and at once wrote the bank to protect the check, which was done. "Why shouldn't a doctor anywhere gladly recognize it as a patriotic du tw to advise a soldier boy without charge when sick? It shows that tendency all too frequent to commer cialize war conditions, extending it even to the brave soldier lads who of fer their lives at 50 cents a day and found. In this case the boy was working his way through high school and quit school to defend his country." FALSELY ACCUSED The committee is preparing to en tertain 150 to 200 delegates. MISS RISLEY MARRIES Son of Judge Bradshaw of The Dalles Claims Popular Young Woman Much social interest centered about the wedding on Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Risley of their daughter, Etheling Al ice, and Robert C. Bradshaw, of The Dalles. Preceding the ceremony Mrs. John Risley sang a solo and Miss Ed ith Callif played the wedding march, the Rev. Oswald Taylor of Portland officiating. Silver baskets with spring flowers, palms, an arch of greens and calla lilies were the decorations of the liv ing room- where the ceremony took place. About 100 guests were pres ent at the wedding and reception which followed. The bride was given in marriage by her father, Charles Risley. Miss Olive Risley was bridesmaid and Tamest Walters of The Dalles acted as best .man. Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw and Mrs. and Mrs.' Risley were in the receiving line after the ceremony. Jean and Ruby Stark weather presented each one with a piece of the wedding cake. Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw left for The Dalles, their future home. .Hey M Get your barn in shape NOW so everything will go smoothly haying time. Install a eyers Hay Hook OUTFIT and your storage troubles are over fresh new stock to choose from all latest improved carriers and track. Also MEYERS DOOR HANGERS LITTER CARRIERS and STANCHIONS W. J. Wilson & Co. OREGON CITY, OREGON Geo. Blatchford, Molalla -fj!j ' Si! I'll TO BUILD PLAYSHED Will Lower Logan Parent-Teachers Hold Basket Social Soon The Lower Logan Parent-Teacher association met April 12. Several new members were received into the circle. During the business session it was suggested that a play shed and and assembly hall be built for the school. It was voted for unanimous ly. The president appointed the fol lowing to take charge: J. Moser, Bert Corless and W. P. Kirchem. After the business session a suc cessful apron sale was held. B. Cor less was auctioneer. The program consisted of recitations by Edith Sprague, Charles Riebhoff, Alma Boss, Rose Tschopp, Mrs. L. Sherwood and Francis Hutchins. Four school chil dren sang a song. A basket social will be held at the Lower Logan school house next Sat urday evening, April 21. OREGON CITY WOMAN COMES TO THE FRONT At. Mr. Ginther Defends Self From tacks of Those Who Gossip Hoff, Ore., R. 1, April 16, 1917 Editor of the Courier: I have just learned yesterday from my neighbors that I have been arrested by the au thorities or was going to be because I am supposed to have said something derogatory of the government or rather of the president. May I say here that I have not yet been arrest ed? The information naturally shocked me. To think that I, a na tive born American, should be accus ed of vilifying our president or say ing anything derogatory in times like these! I, a man who has taught the boys and girls of Clackamas county for nearly a quarter of a century to Every Oregon City resident should read what a neighbor says. Her tes timony can be relied upon. Here are her own words: Mrs. Kate Flanagan, Sixth and Jef ferson Sts., Oregon City, says: "I can conscientiously say that Doan's Kid ney Pills are a good reliable kidney medicine. I have taken them on sev eral occasions and they have always done mo good." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan s Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Flanagan had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. The membership is made up for the most part of farmers and among the important tasks to be undertaken at once is a concerted fight against the proposed $6,000,000 road bond issue. The program before the leagues also includes several import ant road and tax matters that are to be threshed out before the county court. Meetings for organization of local leagues are being held almost every evening in different parts of the county. COAKLEY JAILED AGAIN Milwaukie Resort Managers Attract Attention of Officials Miles Coakley, confessed violator of the prohibition laws, was returned to the county jail here last Friday night by G. W. Ralston, who had paid Coakley's fine on the previous day. Ed Harris, who, with Coakley, was proprietor of the Hotel Gratton at Milwaukie, has remained in jail since the pair was surrendered by the bondsmen' following the plea of guilty which the two entered in Judge Campbell's court to charges covering the illegal sale of liquor. It is understood by Sheriff Wilson that Ralston paid Coakley's fine so that the prisoner could attend a box ing smoker in Portland in an effort to raise money for his fine from some of his friends among the pugilists. Having failed in that effort, Coakley was forced to return to jail, when Ralston recalled the money he had de posited. Coakley and Harris were fined $300 each and each paid $100. They are serving the remainder of the 100-day sentence imposed by the judge. Judge J. U. Campbell Friday sign ed an order extending, until the next regular term of court, the case of the state against Tommy Nishioka, Louis Rosenfeld and Julius Wilbur. The case .is an outgrowth of the raid on the Friars' club at Milwaukie, raided by Sheriff Wilson and his deputies last fall. Wilbur was held to answer personally to one charge and the three together are held on the second. Nish ioka and Rosenfeld were employes of the Friars' club. TAXPAYERS ORGANIZE Farmers in Southern Sections Inter ested in State League Ten branches of the State Tax payers' league have been organized in Clackamas county within the past few weeks by a group of interested farmers led by Robert Schuebel. As-I soon as the force of local leagues is large enough, a county league will be perfected to work with the state league, according to Mr. Schuebel. Suit Against Mill is Off The case of Ernest Otto Froese against the Crown-Willamette Paper company was dismissed by Judge Campbell Tuesday after it was shown by attorneys that the claim had been settled out of court. Froese sued the paper company for $2999 damages for an accident he suffered at the mills some time ago. 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