THfi BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922.
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THE BANNER COURIER
The Clackamas County Banner and the Oregon City Courier, Consolidated
July 8th, 1919, and Published by the Clackamas County Banner Publishing
Company, Incorporated.
P. J. TOOZE. Editor
Published Thursdays from the Banner Building at Ninth and Main Streets
and Entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Oregon as Second Class Mail
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- Official Paper of City of Oregon City
"Flag of the free heatrs' hope and
home! , '
By Angels' hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in
Heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls be
fore us.
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet
And Freedom's banner streaming
o'er us."
JOSEPH DRAKE.
SOME SOURCES AND SOME REMEDIES FOR
SKY-LINE TAXES
In 1919 the legislature appropriated for the main-
tainance of the State Industrial School for Girls for main
tainance $36,056.00; deficiency $3,020.05; new buildings
$1175.00; repairs $1,975.00 a total of $42,226.05. In 1921,
the legislative appropriation was $47,300 for maintain
ance; deficiency $4,218.35; buildings $50,000; repairs $6,'
340 a total of $107,858.35 or $65,632.30 more than at the
session before. In the meantime taxes had risen fright
fully but the number of average inmates of 1921 over 1920
was only 14. The number of teachers employed is 1, and
attendants o.
These girls are spending their time for the most part
in idleness "The Devils Workshop" and this is a wrong
perpetrated upon these wards of the state- This condition
not only breeds dissatisfaction and contempt for author
ity, but its physical and moral effects are demoralizing. To
house any number of boys or girls together without the
influence of reasonable, continuous, well-planned work
results in lowering the ideals of citizenship thus defeating
the very purpose for which the institution is intended.
Though the taxpayers foot the bills and they are big
the iinancial outcome is the least to be deplored. It is
the resultant moral and industrial degradation that en
sues from idleness as well as high costs that appeals most
strongly for a new system of management at this state
institution.
These girls should be taught some phase of industry
that will help them to earn an honest living, when dis
charged from the institution. They should be shown the
dignity of labor also and how to do and to save as an ele
ment of pleasure itself. They should be self supporting.
Then when they are released will find ready employment
in respectable progressive industry. And this is the DUTY
of the state. Anything else is little short of criminal.
And this plan can be worked out. It can be made a
success by the employment of less politics and more in
dustrial common sense even without interference with
free and independent labor.
In our sister state of Washington the Girls' Training
School employs its inmates in regular, profitable work.
And the spirit of the girls has improved as a result
and as evidence that they themselves have an impulse to
know how to work and to acquire the habij of industry
which is the greatest help that can be given to both them
and their commonwealth.
THE KINDLY "HELLO'
Seldom do we hear econiums of praise awarded the
telephone girl. Hers is the lot too often of the servant
condemned. She is often blamed for the annoying things
beyond her control.- The wrong number is due to our
mumbling words as often perhaps as to her inattention
and indifference. Sometimes the patron guesses what
he should KNOW and then the joke is on him, though he
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The Best Way to Save
Some people's savings are burned up
and some- forget the hiding place and
thus they never do their owner and
good. Such people -are to be commend
ed for having formed the habit of sav
ing but too much condemnation cannot
be given the mind that didn't have
foresight enough to use the bank.
4 PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS
First National Bank
OF OREGON CITY
512 Main St.
Oregon City
should grumble before he finds out his own error.
In case of public disaster, in fire, flood, sicknessand
accident her part in the world's work is recognized and
commended. But its in the persistent nerve destroying,
exacting grind of the commonplace day in which the
"hello" girl appreciates kind words and patience. The re
flex effect is good for the patrons also. '
WHY NOT REDUCE?
In Washington there are $75,358 government em
ployes and in the field $568,326. And this great army of
clerks, officials and other help is only slightly less than
under the stress of war. " -
Just why it is necessary to retain so many now while
the country is on a peace basis is not clear to the taxpay-
At this time when his dollars mean so much oi ton
er,
and sacrifice and when taxes are so high to meet the ex
penses of government including national there should be
put forth every effort to cut down expenses.
And right in the center of the government itself is
one place where the cut can be made without reducing ef
ficiency. Cut down the army of officeholders, clerks and
others, some of whom are but political leaches sapping
the financial vitality of the nation and taxing the re
sources of the individual.
A RESULT OF CONSOLIDATION
Under the Washington Administrative Code which
has been in effect one year -on Saturday last, a single de
partment The Department of Licenses has performed
the duties and functions formerly performed by FIF
TEEN SEPARATE EXAMINING BOARDS including
the fish commission, board of pharmacy and others.
This department issues all motor vehicle licenses
which produce nearly $3,000,000 revenue each year, motor
vehicle operator's licenses producing over $200,000 in six
months and the collection of the gasoline tax which
amounted to more than $400,000 in the first four months
under the new Code.
But here's-the "meat in the oyster." The department's
motor vehicle and examining board expense for the first
third of the 1921-23 biennium, amounted to only $70,104
as compared with the expenditures of $103,509 for the
same purposes for the corresponding one third of the
1919-1921 biennium under the old form of state govern
ment with 80 boards and commissions.
The New Code of Ten departments instead of the
former multiplicity of boards and commissions has Fur
ther Justified the department plan. For instance the Mo
tor Vehicle Division has rendered INCREASED SER
VICE to motorists during the past year. And the service
given by the Examining Board Division has been shown
highly efficient by commendations from those who serv
ed on the various boards before the Administratice Code
went into effect. Full endorsement of the new depart
ment plan is generally enthusiastic.
If Washington manages to get along with several
dozen less boards and SAVES MONEY by so doing why
not a good proposition for Tax Reduction in Oregon?
OREGON CITY ADVERTISED
The Capper-Towner fabric bill before Congress pro
viding for labels showing the proportions of virgin wool
and shoddy contained in manufactured cloth is fought
bitterly by the Eastern manufacturers. Every possible
obstacle is thrown into the way of its passage. Over it
the Farm "bloc" and the factory representatives clash.
Meanwhile the people of
the whole country are told
through national advertis
ing of the woolen industry
at Oregon City and of the
progressive endorsement of
the fabric bill by the local
institution.
The Jacobs Oregon City
Virgin Wool Products carry
a national virgin wdol label.
One standard of quality all
the way through" is a slogan
carried in the famous Sat
urday Evening Post.
And through this nation
wide scope of advertising
the name and fame of Ore
gon bity is heralded
the continent.
eyes,
A shapely vessel began U rise. , "
At last the whir of the wheel -was still
And the work of the potter was
done;
Then the vessel was placed on the
. outer sill
In the light of the summer sun;
And there the dull clay of the cellar
' . cold
Stood a beautiful vase, all bathed with
gold.
One day there was sound In the nar
row street
Of hoof and of chariot wheel,
And the king drew near, the potter to
greet - ' ,
And to ask of his people's weal,
For none, as he, was so kind and true.
The length and breadth of the whole
land through.
The greetings over, the king passed
by,
Then turned toward the palace hill;
But he suddenly stayed, for his watch
ful eye
Had seen the vase on the sill
Where it stood in the sunlight, slen
der and fair.
Finished and fashioned a work most
rare.
The king called the potter and asked
his price;
He paid what was asked, and much
more;
Then he hid his treasure of rich de
vice In his bosom. and thus he bore
The vase to the palace his coveted
prize,
The joy of his heart and delight of
hiseyes.
And now if-you seek for the cold, dull
clay,
You must pass the old cellar by
And go up the hill, by the king's high
way, 'Neath the light of the sunlit sky,
Till you reach the palace of glittering
stone,
Yea, there you will find it beside te
throne!
Henry Weston Frost.
1 GLASSiFIED flDSj
TOO LAT TO CLASSIFY
FOR SALE 40 Acre dairy ranch, 7
acres in cutlivation, remainder
easily cleared. Watered by creek, 4
good wels one drilled. County
road on 2 sides. Well fenced. Good
hew buildings. Price $2109. Cash,
?600. 3 year terms on balance. Lo
cated miles south of Molalla and
3 miles east of Marquam. Lowell
Blair, Marquam, Ore. 4-6-tf.
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CONSTRUCTIVE
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Bankof Commerce
Oregon City.Ore .
THOS FRYAN msio'cm DnHUGH S MOUNTv.ct mes JOHN R HUMPH RYS cashier
KE.BAUERSFEL0. Asst Cashier
OWNED. MANAGED AND controlled
BY CLACKAMAS COUNTY PEOPLE
Dec. 31, 1922. Any information should
be forwarded to Schuebel and BeatUe,
Oregon City, Oregon.
GRANVILLE DAVIS.
CERTIFICATE OF PARTNERSHIP
OF THE MILWAUKIE WOOL
CARDING MILL
P. M. Hart wishes to announce that
he is now located over the C. C store
in what was known as Knapps Hall
and is prepared to do all kinds of
photographic work at reasonable
prices. We make a specialty of
family groups and children's pictures.
REWARD OF $500
Is offered for information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons who murdered
Everett E. Davis near Wilhoit in the
fall of 1921.
This reward will be held good until.
over
BANNER THOUGHTS
IN POETRY
The following poem is printed here
with the hope that its story may stim
ulate anew those who have lost
faith in reward for constructive ef
fort of hand and heart.
THE TRANSFORMED CLAY
"He shall be a vessel unto honor,
sanctified, and meet for the Master's
use."
A potter sat at his wheel one day,'
in a cellar both dark and cold: -
Around him in piles lay the plastic
clay,
All damp and covered with mofd :
In shapeless heaps it lay on thei sand.
Awaiting the touch of the master's
. hand.
The potter's foot turned the wheel
around
Till faster and faster it flew.
With a click and a creak and a whir
ring sound
That filled at the cellar through?
Then the potter laid hold on the mass
of clay,
Where it lay in the darkness, dull
and gray.
The" potter's vision was clear and keen
And his touch was skillful and true.
And the clay which lay in his hands
between,
He fashioned and fashioned anew.
Till there on the wheel, before his
This certifies that J. S. Andrews,
and T. W. McKune both of Milwaukie,
Claokamas County, Oregon, liave and
do hereby form a co-partnership for
transaction of business of wool card
ing and manufacturing.
1. The name of this co-partnership
shall be' MILWAUKIE WOOL CARD
ING MILL, its location, office and
principal place of business and post
office address shall be; Milwaukie,
Oregon.
2. The duration, of this partnership
shall be perpetual or until dissolved
by mutual consent or otherwise.
3. The post office address of each
partner is Milwaukie, Oregon.
. 4. The amount of capital stock con
tributed by each partner is $2000.00.
5. The beginning of this partner
ship shall be April -1st, 1922. "
6. The business of this .partner
ship shall be that of carding wool and
manufacturing the saem into various
products. " .
Witnesses: J. F. Clark, J. A. Askew,
J. S. Andrews, T. W. McKune.
State of Oregon, County of Clacka
mas ss.
On this 1st day of April, A. D. 1922,
before me a Notary Public in and for
said County and State, the above
named J. S. Andrews, and T. W. Mc
Kune, personally appeared before me,
and each for himself acknowledged
that he executed the above instrument
freely and voluntarily and for the
purpose therein set forth.
Witness my hand and Notarial Seal
this 1st day of April, A. D. 1922.
J. L. CLARK,
Notary Public for Oregon.
'My commission expires March 5,
1924. . (4-6-4tp.)
NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL
PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given, that the
clerk of the Board of School -District
No. 26, Clackamas county, Oregon,
will receive sealed bids for the pur
chase of the following described pro
perty to-wit:
The Old Union- school house and
site commencing at the Southwest
corner of Section three (3) Township
two (2) South of Range three (3)
East of the Willamette Meridian, run
ning North fifteen (15) rods thence
East twelve (12) rods, thence Sotuh
fifteen (15) rods thence West twelve
(12) rods to place of beginning, con
taining one (1) acre more or less sit
uated in Clackamas County, Oregon.
Separate bids are required on build-
rcr nnri Di'ta
uiua win ue icwiiycu uy iu uie
hour of 2 o'clock P. M. Saturday, April
22nd, 1922.
Bids to be opened at the hour of
8 o'clock P. M. on same date.
mu. T- i iv. i
i iit: jjuoiu icaeivea ui rigut 10 re
ject any and all bids,
For information regarding Bids and
Terms or saia property apply to the
clerk.
Dated this 31st day of March, 1922.
Clerk, S. A. ROBERTS.
Chairman, OLAF GRAN.
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