6REG0N CITY COURIER, OREGON , CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1917.
OREGON CITY COURIER
C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager
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RED CROSS SEALS
How much is it worth to you to
save the life of a child? Ask your
self that question this Christmas
season when you see the little Red
Cross seals on sale. We have been
awakened to a new knowledge of the
dread of tuberculosis through the
report on the disease in this county
read before the Live Wires of Ore
gon City on Tuesday.
Consider when you are pasting a
Red Cross seal on your Christmas
package, that 90 per cent of every
cent you spend for these stamps will
be returned to fight the white plag
ue, and perhaps there are as many
others exposed who were not
counted. Consider that there are
nearly 150 persons suffering from
the disease in this county. Consider
that perhaps half of the number are
not sufficiently well-off financially to
take care of themselves and must
submit to the awful ravages of tu
berculosis. Consider all this and go to the
purchase of Red Cross seals with a
light heart through the knowledge
that your pennies will help to save
the life of one sufferer. Give freely.
NO WONDER
No wonder life is tough for the
underdog when there are 206 men
in the United States with minimum
incomes of more than $1,000,000 a
year, or more in one day than the
average wage earner earns in two
years of steady work.
No wonder there are socialists,
striving against this wealth itself,
to alter the scheme of human affuirs.
Looking at it from our angle, a
man with an income as high as that
is not a good citizen. He is one of
the people who make anarchists; he
is one of the men who make it hard
for government of the people, by the
people and for the people to flourish
on the earth. -
When as many as one, let alone
206, men can have incomes of more
in one hour than a well-paid and
skillful workman can earn by his
greatest efforts in .three months
v there is something wrong.
And when 10 men can make vast
ly more in one minute than the same
workman can ' earn in three months
something is rotten.
We are most heartily in favor of
the absolute confiscation of all in
comes over a decent wage, commen
surate with position. Those who do
not see the object of absolute confis
cation may gain a new idea on the
subject from the report herewith:
"Two hundred and six men with
millionair incomes, 10 of them with
annual incomes of more than $5,
000,000 and 196 with incomes rang
ing from one to five millions, are
shown in the income tax figures of
,the Internal Revenue bureau for the
fiscal year 1917.
"While 437,036 persons paid in
come taxes last year, previous es
timates set the number as , high as
700,000. The number of married
men subject to the income tux un
der the old law was 355,107; unmar
ried men, 47,401; unmarried' women,
20,833 and married women making
returns separate from their hus
bands, 7635.
The number reporting incomes be
tween $3000 and $4000 was 85,122."
Have you made Christmas merry
for a soldier in France?
The important thing about your
Christinas shopping is: "Buy it in
Oregon City."
Oregon has given of her own flesh
and blood to the war, and now her
forests are at the command of the
government.
The sugar famine is a mere trifle.
Think what we would suffer if the
government should shut down on
the suit supply.
By the way, do you recall that
eventful Christmus when the kaiser
and his hosts were to take dinner
together in Puris?
"Except for a little rain more or
less, there's not much difference be
tween Christmas and the Fourth of
July in old Oregon. ,
But then, the world isn't all sad.
A New York bell boy recently had
his automobile stolen from the curb
in front of his apartment.
The Y. M. C. A. war work fund
went $15,000,000 over the amount
asked for. That is the way Amer
ica does things, Kaiser "Bill."
We know a merchant who hires
extra help each year to dustoff the
wares on his shelves and tables. He
does not advertise in The Courier.
Speaking of early birds getting
the worms, it occurs to about 10,'
000 newspaper editors at the same
instant that the early shoppers get
the Christmas bargains.
For a time the. weakness of the
Hindenburg line made things look
like American troops would get to
the front just in time for the big
German funeral.
Question: If boys return at once
to their evil lives when they are pa
roled from the Oregon state train
ing school, whose fault is it, their
own or the school's?
Food conservation campaigns have
had no appreciable effect upon the
sale of marriage licenses in Oregon
City. The local divorce mill seems
to be as busy as usual in exploding
Vancouver romances, too.
Now if we could only put those
state college football teams on the
battle front to rush the Hindenburg
line we would have a hole large
enough for the French army to
march through to its " Christmas
feast in Berlin.
Our good friend Bill Hanley of
Harney county, has been smoking
some more of -that sage brush hop
that has been inspiring his dreams,
lo, these many year. Bill's latest
dream is the creation of the state of
Lincoln from the sand dunes and
sagebrush of eastern Oregon. Bill,
being the biggest man in Lincoln,
naturally would be governor. Bill's
heart is alright, but he has wheels
in his head.
With the death in Portland on
Tuesday of John F. Carroll, for
many years publisher of the Tele
gram, Oregon has lost a notable
figure from its long list of first
class newspaper men, and the Tele
gram has suffered a loss that cannot
be repaired on the instant. The
least that can be said of Mr. Carroll
is that he was not always in sympa
thy with the avaricious men who
controlled his position and whose
shares of stock dictated the policy
of his paper. John F. Carroll was
bigger than the newspaper he published.
The enterprise that has been
shown recently by the Portland
Spectator makes that well-edited
journal of progress much more
worth the reading thun it ever was.
And that is saying a good bit.
Hugh Hume is espousing the cause
of the specialty merchant in opposi
tion to the gigantic department
stores that are crowding the little
fish out of the puddle. The depart
ment store is to metropolitan com
merce as the mail order house is to
rural, merchandising, but The Spec
tator appears to be the only paper
in Portland that dares to say so.
More power to you, Mr. Hume.
Simon S. Dow's Newberg vEnter
prise says: "It wouldn't hurry us
any to agree that the Oregon City
Courier is not only the biggest but
the best weekly newspaper in the
state, but surely the editor never
visited Nwberg or he would not
make such an extravagant state
ment as saying that Oregon City
was the best town in the Beaver
state."
"OUtit, Largest and Strongest Bank
In Clackamas Count)."
FITTING BANK
TO NEEDS
HECKING, Savings and Time Deposit
Accounts are only part ot the complete
facilities and services of The Bank of Ore
gon City. We also afford
Telegraphic Transfers
Letters of Credit
Collections
Foreign Exchunge
Travelers Cheques
REASONABLE INTEREST ON SAVINGS
Thank you, Simon. We have
been in Newberg several times and
are free to admit that it is one of
the few towns in the state that even
approach Oregon City. . Take en
couragement from that if you can,
and let us add that the Newberg En
terprise, is one of the best things
about the town, as far as our care
ful inspection revealed.
POLITICAL MACHINE MAY
NOT WORK SO SMOOTHLY
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
Last week the Oregonian had one
of its usual pre-election spasms and
used a column and a half of perfect
ly good space to tell the public ex
actly nothing about the democratic
political situation.
The article was supposed to be
a summary of the possibilities and
probabilities for the offices of Unit
ed States senator and governor, but
failed to even mention the name of
the only candidate that had made
any announcement of running for
either office. This may have been
due to the fact that Mr. Stark.
weather is a farmer, for whom the
Oregonian seems to have so little
use, or it may have been due to pure
ignorance. It is hard to believe the
latter, as they had carried an an
nouncement of Mr. Starkweather's
candidacy for governor less than a
month before, true it was in a
very inconspicuous place and was
brief to the point of painfulness, but
it was sufficient to indicate that thev
knew he was in the race.
The truth of the matter is that
the Oregonian seems to be between
the devil and the deep sea, and if
the story that is going the rounds
in Portland's political circles has
any truth in it, it looks as if the
gentleman in the tall tower has had
one slipped over on him by what
the Telegram calls "The Chamber-
lain-West-Olcott Political Machine,"
which machine is credited with hav
ing been formed and directed by C.
S. Jackson, Portland capitalist and
editor and owner of the Journal. If
this is true it explains some of the
smug smiles of satisfaction xon the
faces of certain gentlemen not far
from the corner of Broadway and
Yamhill treets.
Rumor has it that the Chamber
lain-West-Olcott Machine is out to
capture both offices, and in the event
or this success, the machine would
be further strengthened by the ap
pointment of C. S. Jackson to fill
the vacancy caused by the retire
ment of Chamberlain to a federal
judgeship at San Francisco. Accord
ing to the story, Sam White was to
run on the democratic ticket, be
cause he did not have a chance in
the world, thus insuring the election
of Olcott, providing he got the nom
ination. Mr. Starkweather rather
spilt the beans at this point by an
nouncing his, candidacy without con
sulting the machine. Still the case
was not considered hopeless until
the Hon. Robert Stanfield started
his boom, some anxious days were
spent until the Hon. Robert was in
duced to run for the senate and not
for governor. While we are not of
the same political faith as Mr. Stan
field, we know the gentleman very
well indeed and have the highest re
gards for him both as a man and a
legislator and cannot help but feel
that he has made a very grave po
litical mistake, first because the Oro-
gonian has seized upon him with
tears of political joy, which is
enough to kill any candidate, and
next because it looks as if hp wprp
being used to further the interests
ol tne Machine. With the republic
an field split four wavs "Withv.
combe, Olcott, Moser and Stanfield,"
it was any one's fight, with Stan-
neid standing a chance of better
than an even fieht. conceded . that
Stanfield would draw more votes
from Olcott than from any other one
candidate. Rumor also has it that
the name of Oswald West will be
written in for United States senat
or and in the event of Stanfield get
ting the nomination, West will run
independent.
This sounds all very well for a
political story,, but there are four
things that the machine has tn nvnr-
come and it looks like a big job for
it.
First, Starkweather will make a
whirlwind camDaicn and he has n
host of friends in all parts of the
state.
Second, Stanfield may come to
the conclusion that he has been
double crossed, then look out for
gore, for while the Hon. Bob is
everything a peaceful citizen should
be, he is a fighting son-of-a-gun
when he gets started.
Third, Withycombe has not been
idle by any means and during the
last year he has built a very nice
little machine of his own, and while
it has some of the ear marks nf o
flivver, and requires some very
careful driving, still the "Doc" is
getting to be quite a chauffeur de
spite the fact that his early training
was all with hosses.
Last, but not least, the people of
both parties are heartily sick and
tired of machine politics, trading,
jobbing and all kinds of political rot
tenness and they may take it into
their heads to vote for A MAN and
forget all party lineg.
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Obituaries
Mrs. Mary Osburn
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
C. Osburn, who died at the home of
a daughter in Portland on Saturday,
were held from the Holman chapel
here Monday morning and interment
was in Mountain . View. Mrs. Os
burn was formerly a resident of this
city and was 51 years old at the
time of her death.
Mrs. Oflinda White
Funeral services for Mrs. Orlinda
White were held Friday afternoon
from the Holman parlors, with Dr.
W. T. Milliken, of .the First Baptist
church, officiating. ' Interment was
in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs.
White, who was a native of Illinois,
died at the Oregon City hospital on
Thursday. She was 65 years old
and is survived -by two daughters,
Mrs. Ethel Daily, Shelton, Wash.,
and Mrs. Grace Hasbrook, Oregon
City.
WRITER SAYS DISTRICT
DISLIKES COURT SYSTEM
Woodburn, Nov. 26, 1917.
To the editor: .A road meeting
was held at Oak Lawn school house
in road district 36 November 24.
The tax payers came in the morn
ing with the intention of voting
down anything that sounded like a
levy. The reason for their feeling
is a good deal the same as Mr. Ben
son and Mr. Vogler interpret the
condition prevailing in road district
number 35, in regard to the court.
But before adjourning they voted
a four-mill tax and at the same time
snowed under the imposter super
visor, who has been one of the fac
tors in blocking progress in road
development in road district 36,
which has 14 miles of blue print
road, over half of the said number
of miles never having the stumps
and timber removed and not one
mile of anything like a permanent
gradet
The garages are already locked
and the taxpayers have put on their
hip boots in order to get to their
respective mail boxes.
L. A. RALL.
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Hog Increase is Necessary
To get an increased meat supply
quickly, hog breeding must be in
creased materially throughout the
country, and in certain states an in
crease of from 2fi tn Rf) npr rent in
the number of hogs is recommended
by the United States Department of
Agriculture.
In addition to the fact that them
is an imperative demand for more
meat as a war measure, it should be
taken into considernt.mn thnt that, a
is now an abundance of feed crops
corn, oats and barley with which to
prouuee tnis necessary increase in
the number of hops. The AomanA
for meat is certain" and it will be
profitable to the farmer to market
Some of this henvv vrain Rnnnh, ni
j o rr.j v.i
the hoof.
The increase in the nnmhar nf
hogs for various states, as recom
mended bv the Hennrtment. ia no
follows: Missouri, 50 per cent; Ala-
oama, au; lowa, 25; Kansas, 25; In
diana, 20; Illinois, 20; Mississippi,
20; Arkansas, 20; South Carolina,
15; Ohio, 15; Kentucky, 15; Tenne
see, 15; Maryland, 10; North Caro
lina, 10; Michigan, 10; Nebraska,
10; West Virginia, 5, and Georgia,
5. The increase-needed for the en
tire country is 15 per cent and is
coverea Dy the above schedule.
Other states than those named
should breed no fewer sows than
last year.
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DIGS YOUR POTATOES CLEAN
Gets Them ALL-
LIGHT DRAFT because high wheeled
PERFECT SEPERATION because of larger
and wider levators than others of like size
LONG LASTING because all parts are made of
the most enduring material
Investigate the operation of
the Dovvden and you will
buy no other
DISC HARROWS
DRAG HARROWS
CHILLED PLOWS
STEEL PLOWS
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The long standing dependability of this concern is back of
everything you buy for men and boys wear.
Two Store In Portland -Morrison at Fourth and 166 Third St.
GUS KUHN, President
"The Kupptnheim House In Portland"
S. & H. Stamps given with
all purchases. These are
good (or cash discounts.
O. C, C. 12-6-17
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The exportation of pork products
has increased since the war began
and will continue to increase during
the length of the war. During the
last three months the price of hogs
in the United States has been, on an
average, more than twice as much
as the average price for the five
years from 1911 to 1915. In view
of the large crop of feedstuffs in
sight, however, it is believed that
farmers will see the wisdom of tak
ing every reasonable step to increase
the supply of hogs and hog products.
REBEKAHS CONVENE
Lodges of Eastern Clackamas Hold
Session With Boring Chapter
District convention No. 32-of the
Rebekah lodge 1. O. O. F. of Ore
gon, embracing the lodges of Esta
cada, Gresham, Rockwobd, Boring
and Sandy, was held at Boring last
Saturday when a large crowd was
in attendance. Those representing
Sandy lodge were: Mrs. Blanche R.
Shelby, Mrs. Mira Revenue, Mrs.
Mabel Beers, Mrs. Ella Baumback,
Mrs. Margaret Dittert, Mrs. Vera
Smith and Miss Lena Thomas.
President Mary Lankestar, Mrs.
Charlotte Woodman, superintendent
of I. O. O.'F. home, and Mrs. Allie
Circle, of Portland, were in attend
ance. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Chair
man, Mrs. Nellie Currin, Estacada;
vice-chairman, Mrs. Ella Baumback,
Sandy; secretary, Mrs. Cora Child
ers, Gresham; chaplain, Mrs. Liza
Metzger, Gresham; marshal, Mrs.
Vera Smith, Sandy; conductor, Mrs.
Callie Kennedyr Gresham; inside
guardian, Mrs. Mary Richmond,
Rockwood; outside guardian, Mrs.
Selma Bartell, Boring. The conven
tion will meet next year at Esta-cada.
CITY CELEBRATES
Union Service at Baptist Church
Addressed by Rev. Mr. Seaman
Oregon City celebrated Thanks
giving Thursday quietly but well.
There were scores of dinner parties
and there were many people out of
the city for the day. In spite of
the continual downpour many auto
mobiles were limbered up for - the
day. A large audience of church
goers attended the union services at
the First Baptist church and heard
a sermon by the Rev. S. W. Seaman,
of the First Presbyterian church.
Rev. E. E. Gilbert, of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, presided.
Services which drew a large attend
ance were held in St. Paul's Episco
pal church and St. John's . Roman
Catholic.
Progress is possible on the farm
just as it is in the biggest city in
America. Progressive farmers in
Clackamas county are the ones who
will appreciate The Courier's club
bing offer with the Oregon Farmer.
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