OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY. JUNF. I. 1917. Paok 4 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE e. k. PublUhtd I very friity. BROOIC, liiXor n4 Publisher. Eater4 tt Oroa City, Orvioit. I'cxtofflre m.-ob4 clau metier. ufeeeriM ion Ritte: Oee yeer l, tJ ti Booth Trial Hubanrlntlon. Two Uonthi Hubariibara will find lha data of einlrmtlon itampad en thrlr peper fol (lag ibalr nn. K Ittt payment I not credited, kindly notify u. and tka inetter will receive our attention. Ad'arttilng lUie on application. SUPPORT HOOVER Porter Emerson Browne, of the Vigilantes, says: What makes I lerbert Clark I ioovrr a popular leader is the adventurous quality which he can give to the humdrum bus iness of feeding the world. It isn't only because he fed Bel gium, but the way he did it that appeals; the way he stood off the Germans, persuaded the pope, dodged the English. picked up ships in unlikely ports, loaded them under the nose of bureaucratic prohibitions, went over, around and through the biggest war that was ever waged without once falling foul of it. This is what appeals, the genuine American manner, the peculiar possession of the American people. It is perhaps because he shows signs of becoming a great popular leader that opposition has developed in certain quar ters. And what bureaucrat could be blamed for quaking a little before the swift forward rush of this young world adventurer? Hoover facing the Boxer rebellion, holding himself the rank of Mandarin, Hoover in South Africa. Hoover handling a whole Russian province with as much ease as the average man runs a farm, Hoover in Belgium any one of these pic tures is enough to make the everlasting reputation of an av erage man. No wonder the people feel him the representative of their own urgent need to express the genius of Democracy in the medium in which we as a people commonly work. Hoover is the man who more than any other redeems us from the common misapprehension as a people incurably ma terial. All the old ideals make it necessary to express national virtue in military terms, but here is a man who can put great ness inlo the buying of a shopload of wheat, into corn and onions and potatoes. In appointing him Mr. Wilson has again demonstrated how closely he is in touch with the instinctive choice of the people. Most of the work of this war has got to be done in just such crude materials as wheat and onions and potatoes ; most of its victories must be won by harvesters and planters, by shipping clerks and manufacturers of canned goods and breakfast foods. The man who can make campaigns of that kind worth while to the men who fight them is the man for America. Hoover is such a man. And Hoover is the man whom certain sinister forces in congress and the nation are trying to push aside. Are the American people going to let them do it? the payment of the indemnity of the Franco -Prussian war, wil be at German expense. Yet the ixrlrtcle and the parallr offer a lesson to America, the latest ol Uerimtny Iocs in arms. German progress is always calculated iim the ruin of a rival. It may be a financial ruin, such as the Man o Blood and Iron mediated for France in 1871 ; it may be phy sical ruin, such as von I lindenburg now fancies himself to be wreaking; it may be commercial ruin, such as German poll ticians have long had in mind for England and the United States. But it it always ruin of some sort; and it is to avert ... ' r l .1. . -. . Hint peril from ourselves that we are now in the war. 1 his lesson has been apjvirent to Republican statesmen since Aug ust, 1914. The administration affected to think that hysteria and neurotics could account for the agitation which Colone Roosevelt then began. What the administration thinks now is not to be said for the administration remains silent in the hope that the country will forget much that has passed since the war began. But the country will remember, and from day to day the country will be reminded of the foresight of Roosevelt and the other Republicans who tried to awake the country from the lethargy produced by the "kept up out of war soothing syrup. In the back of her head Germany plot ted ruin for us in 1914, even as she is now dealing out ruin for France. LIBERTY BONDS PATRIOTIC AND SAFE The patriotic nature of an investment in the Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917 is something that all Americans will consider. The fact that in purchasing such a bond the investor is lend ing his money to his government to his country to prose cute a great war, gives the investment a dignity that the ordin 1 T1 1 . t I ary investment does not possess. 1 he uses to which the mo ney is to be put, the noble purposes to which it is to be devoted, all are things which appeal more or less to the American heart. But let no one be led by these considerations to look on buy ing a Liberty Loan Bond as a piece of benevolence or merely a contribution to a worthy cause. The Liberty Loan Bond is as good an investment as an American citizen can well make. The rate of interest it bears may seem small, but when its absolute safety is considered and the fact that it is non-taxable, and the further fact that it is to be immune from any taxes which may later on be levied by reason of this war, and still another fact that in case the United States government should later during this war have to borrow more money an4 pay a higher rate of interest, that the holders of these bonds can secure bonds bearing that higher rate when all these things are considered, an investment in Liberty Bonds pos sesses advantages that no other investment in the world pos sesses. There is another point which wise and thoughtful people will give due consideration to and that is an investment in Liberty Loan Bonds is an investment in the defense and pres ervation of all their other property and all they hold dear the preservation of their liberties. We would be in danger, if all our citizens refused to lend their money to the government, of losing all that we have our property, our liberties, and our national honor. It has come to this, and we must fight for these things, and to wage war in this day and time requires not only men and arms but great sums of money. Subscribers to Liberty Loan Bonds are charter members of a society to maintain American honor and to maintain dem ocrary here and in other parts of the world. Honor and inter est, patriotism and business judgment all argue the wisdom of an investment in Liberty Loan Bonds. CONSTITUTIONAL REPEAL, BY IMPLICATION Ballot title number 306 on June 4 demands a constitution establishing definite and consistent plan of government; a constitution that means what its language implies, and when amended that the amended constitution shall still mean what it says. Such is the sum total of this much criticised amend ment. Ihe opposition to this amendment insists on the right to change the constitution but they rebell against the rule that when the plan is changed the language should also be changed to conform with the new plan. They insist on adding to the constitution, but they refuse to take out of the constitution the parts which they repeal, and they urge as the sacred right of the people, to always tell what they wish to add, but never explain what they repeal and destroy. , With their pretense of progressiveness, and their tender regard for the rights of the people, all their sympathy is ex hausted in one direction and that is, that it is none of the peo ple s business how much or what parts of the constitution is rendered ineffective or misleading. There is no basis for their asertion that the initiative, the referendum, the recall, or city home rule amendments could not be passed under this amend- mnt, because those measures simply added new power to the constitution and did not repeal by implication: neither is this amendment designed to prevent future amendments to the constitution, but it is designed to let the people know just what is being done in the way of repealing parts of the con stitution, and is intended to preserve that instrument in such condition that it will not deceive the people by statng things which were, but have ceased to be. If this amendment wins the people will not be mislead to violate the constitution and be called into court to be told that they are led by a dead hand, which has been lifeless for years. Read the negative argu ment of these cultured objectors to the amendment, and find their solicitude about "the dead," while they defend the plan of keeping the constitution filled with repealed mummies which they persist in preserving, knowing they deceive and mislead the people. Fifty Years Ago THE DAY OF RECKONING In 1871 Bismarck imposed a startling indemnity upon van quished France, believing that it would be a generation before it could be paid and that in the meantime French development would be thwarted by the burden of debt. In an incredibly short time, however, the thrifty French had wiped out the debt and had resumed their preparation against the "revanche" for the rape of Alsace and Lorraine. Today von Hindenburg is trying the same game from another angle. He is deliber ately devastating northern France in his retreat from one fa bled "line" to another in the hope that the recreation of the ruin he had wrought will this time surely stifle French devel opment. He will fail as utterly as Bismarck did in the calcula tions of a generation gone. The rebuilding of France, unlike LOOKING TOWARD PEACE There is reason for encouragment in the many evidences of an aroused interest in the tariff question. Some newspa pers and individuals who were disposed a few months ago to deplore discussion of this question are now commenting upon the importance of preparing for peace to the extent, at least, of placing once more on the statute books a tariff law drawn upon protective principles. Such a law could do no harm and would very likely do much good. The American people are paying heavy taxes anyway, and even if they paid all the import duties, which is not at all probable, they would be no worse off. On the other hand, if we had a protective tariff law in force when the war ends, we would be safe against un expected competition in trade. When the war began, Germany transformed her dyestuffs factories into munitions factories. She can just as readily change them back to dye factories. And she will. It will take months to draw and enact a tariff law. If that work shall be left until the war has ended and until the Democratic leaders can carry out their announced intention of ascertaining what conditions will then exist, there will be ample time for Ger many to dump immense quantities of dyes into our markets to the ruin of the dye industry we have begun to establish here. The same thing will be true of other industries in which Germany has been a strong competitor in our markets in the past. Enactment of a protective tariff law now is the only safe policy for the United States to pursue. Many people are awakening to that fact, and it is well for the country that they are. (JARDKN MAKERS orn:m:n imuks BY PAPER MILL A cardan mntn (or employe of lha 'run Wlllemnlle I'eper company h been arraniffil and Hica an tiounrrd fur lha brl alnlrr vegnla bin, lha bet polelne and the beet rrn quantity of potato raWod tin trail of lha company' ground near lha HuiiifI at luxd In Waal I. Inn. Tnle acre of land haa been ml tide for lha gardnti and lha land a III lia given out In amtloll 10 by WO feet. Al lha and of lha leaann, almul lha flrat of November or I Mr em ber, lha prlie will da awarded a fol loat: Cla A - For be garden or winter vegetable: flrl rUi, 1:5; eei'mid rlia. :0; third rli, 15; fourth prlie, t). t'l II - For lha large! rrtip of po tato: Klrat prlie, J!S; sevond prim, lis. (la V - For lha targe! average quantity of potatoes rlnd on Ihn patch per aUri yard of ground: Flral prlia. $15; enennd prlie, f IS. Why a New Penitentiary? Iy Frank lcy, Chief I'llmui AccouiiUiil. Taken from th Oregon Enterprise, May ?, 1H67. Stltct School Wr ur ple.ntc.l to Mute Hint Ml Jole llcvnre ,i n l Mint Flora llney huw upcue.1 a ! i t hiHi' M the 1'ni t l-t i Imp h. M l Vore In a gr.Klu.it.- of the Portland Ac.dcmy and Kemalc a.'iulii.iry. und conic highly rivoumirtnli'd iy Profc or tlntc Indian War In Montana-Our worm fear haw been rcallnd In rcg.ird to Montana. A terrible Indian ar I now raging In that territory. Thu per from Hum ur. 1111. -d with uc count of murdering nud c.ilp!i.g Our frleudu In Idaho und WuahliiKtnn ler rltory will do cll to nolo the fm t thu! I In- illitx.ttUf.'t-iton niuoiiK tlio Indium I fearfully extending ilardk Worth A PriieJ. II. St hratn. the anddlo nnd harm-it mukcr of till til), h lurgcly completed two pair of rt'lna from olio It !!. tha loncM ol whli h incn.tiiri'd Iwi'lvH ftt-t In li'iintli. Sin h a hit I rarely turn. Tlu hltlo u drcNittl ut tlio Mllwaukltt lannrry Clackami County Bible Aiioclatlon On Monday ru'iiliK lant n tnrrtlng wit held In tin' tlly at tho M. K. Iiunli. nud nn uamx lalloii u nliovo nuiiit'd ormmlzi'd with the following olfkfrit. J. Mjfri. iirfldi-tit; William Harlow, It tprritlilfnt . J. M, Harntl, arrretury; S. 1). rranrt'H, IrraMiirrr; Mi't-ulUo roinmlttfo, II. U Krl'y. l " l.iiT.v, J. Milne, Jeplliii May. K. I. Kelly, together with t ho treamirer und eeret nry. Tim appeal lit Ihn poopln of Oregon for lha I'leillon of new pllnoll litllld Ing h mi aelflidi or iiiiiiiolloui4lile purptuia behind It. II doa mil proemd from pemoiial pride or aallnfat llmi on thu pari of any ieroti mi lila own i'ouiiI. The iiirii-i-r of the prlnoli ran fill their plate and do their work In a pi rfuiii lory though lawful manner n giirdli' of Ihn rhnrat ler . of the lllll.lll!. i-ell or other rolivelllelire Highly per rent or more of lha prl oner now hern will bn away from hern befora any part of a new prlmin ran bn liillll, lieiit n It I apparent thai neither primmer nor nlfleer I thinking of l!ie ilirei I efti'i t In lilmi.elf or the npproul or rejection by the people of Ihn pro oanl nhmlttcd by Ihn legla'alure for a new penitent lury. There urn plenty nf other rcanolin jhiwetcr. that uliould Influence Ihn In formed mind In coimlilerullng the prop oalllon, and there la no iiiliul o well Informed III the preinlae n nun thai hat lift II In cutilai t Willi cilHtlng roll tliilon and Mudylng the eldi u a tin ) urn and n they oiikIiI to be. Thai I why prUoncr nnd oiriclul nre In full Mi-ford III rot oiiullni; und allow, lilt! In Ihn public the lieceaally for tl new inilliliiig A few of the prominent renaon may lia not I: Oanyer from Fir. Hie liillilln, and office are no win-re fireproof and a laitatloii (mm lire would menu not only the toaa of liulliltiiK hut of nil the a!u.ilile r - ortli of Ihe luMltiit'nn, lm Imllng the Icral itiH'umi'iilft nulhurl'liig the rctrii Hon of Ihe prlanm ra. Worm than ull Hi l. nil. HiM a fire incur In the main ndmlulatmtlon department, Ihe lle of all the Inuiaten would le eiiihuiK end und many would he neceaaarlly a u rlflccd. ait wllli it M v rapid aprcud i I flume, the men would lm trapped In their celln mill If not actually burned would be auffiKiited. Thern la an much of wood In fltmr. celling, partition. tiilrwnya. etc., that with any great start, a fire would be practltully Irre !atllile. Inaacurlty of Structure The main walla are oer 15 year old. Hrlck unit mortar have deteri orated, lime lived their ulloled time und are n con. .t. in; t. u.tatlon lo men to iIIk (heir way out. In fact. Ihe wall nre no udetiuate protection a' ull. The limber throughout thu build ing lire nffected by dry rot ; they nr. decayed und wnrtlilci.it throughout, be liiK effective only a breeding and hid ing plate for inacct. vermin nnd ill a eaao cerm. The underground cellar In which vegetable und other aup pile are kept am hotbed of polaonuu atmoaphcrn which pcrineute the en tire living quarter of the Inmate. Tin; electric lighting und telephone i Htt in throughout Ihn entire Inatltu tloii I faulty In arrangement und roil Htriittlon. Iloth urn unreliable and out of order It great thai of the llinu und cull for n-p.ilrn all of the time. Thl condition cannot he helped n lit II new- building lire erected In which the wiring Hystem can he ncleiitlfleully 'J arntiigetl Thl I a mailer of ery aerlou I'oiialdcralliiu Htalth Comlantly Menaced. 'Ihn building were t oiialrin led when teulllatloil wu little thought of III building of uny Und. and In pi nl leiitlarle or Julia, tml lit all Thern I no adiiuula Iiunli for Ihe etlt of foul air or lh lugreaa of fn ah air, Thn latter I admitted Ihioiigh window and rein he thn iell nt roat a wide corridor, but Hide I ' circulation through Ihn t ella, and In order to haa iiffleltiit air lo In tl ro mUlctim, thn corridor, cell mid puaaagn wa am an nipoaed during told lilcliH lo be atiaolutcly duiiKcroii lo health and liiiiny poor vlcllma hatn contracted illaeaae thai hum made their lite lulnerahln. Thl I true of guar. la a well a prlaonera, aniiie of the ainuiM eat, liculthlcat tuuployea being unable lo ciinlliiue in night rlinpi'l guard inure than a few month Entire Cell 8ytm Wrong. Thn lnaliln cell )alelu, whlili e lata here, I loliilllli'd by nil modern niithorllle lo ho wrong Tim till r It 1 1 1 1 I bn directly etpmntl lo pure out aide air mid face on nil Inaltle pa ngn way. Whcli burred nnd Incited cell are uai'il there ahoilld bn hut one innn In a cell, mi arrangement unt pa albln hern at preaeiil. The moral reu on for aegregatloll I obtloua. For IruMlea. the ntuff, barred cell at IiIkIiI I iiiirenmiialile, iiiiuei eaanrr and ii n lite Thn innn who work out diMir n'l day, without guard, lining hi duly freely, doe lint ileaervn lo be locked up ull night without tentlln Hon or ufflt lent air. lairgn open rntini containing all or elcht alngle In it niul fronting on a punaugn way for gunrda la far pieferablti mill that I one of tho plana of thn prnitiaed atructure Dollar va. Humanity. For what I Ihn HuO.nOii luieatmeiit deiiimidiMlT l-trat, for luntcilal afetv and for Improvement dictated by ordi nary bualnna innlhotl; aecmiil, for thn phyalcal health of the liiinulea, unfor tiiiiute who through arloua cauae liavn been connl-nnd lo Ihe at.lt e cum for certain period; und third unl mnat linpnrtaiit. for the moral health of thean people, an that they may be returned to aoclety In Ihe beat pimalhlo condition to take pint e of uncfultiea In their reapectlvn walk of life. I not an Itiveaiment for the better ment of men-an Inveatnieiil In humuii Riiiila worth while? There will pml nbly nlwiiy bo loinii derelict upon (lie dca. of life who will require the cr.rp of thn atate for the better aaf. ty of Biiclety, hut there I no -.nni renaoll why rven thoan ahoulit not bn treated nnd houaetl a human being, or that their phyalcnl nnd moral atrmturea ahoilld bn deliberately unit peralleiit. ly expoaed and enilailKered, If thn Oregon peopln ilealrn to have offender reformed mid brought hack to iiaefulnea they mnat provldii mean i und Buroriindliig fniiiluclve to (hut end, llarluirlc treiitmeiit Ihih been rondemncd mid dlacardid. All other feature nlllcd to It mnat be iiIho pIIiiiI-Hilled. Kepre,e,a..vc of the Hnw.ey Pu.p DONATION LAND Taper company the ( rown Willam ette Ihmt company und tho Oregon fl ATT TC Tl L T 1 tv Maniifactiir ni! comtian v. nt u meetliiB In the Commercliil club room J( 0 IV 05 YEARS r i iuti eveoillK lirrnogeu leiuaiivu plans for a "Mlllinen' Juhlloo" tu ho held nt (i'nd.ttoni! I'nrk, July 4. The 1 Jubilee" will take tho form of n picnic to bn held from 7 o'clock on thn ninniliiir of tho Fourth until 9 o'clock tit night. MiiiIc will bo fur- nlhhod by tho Oregon City Hoys' band, for both tho concert lo bo given tintl for (lancing. CotnnilttepH appointed rdny night, to complete iirraiiKomontH, follow: Dunclim, Milton Price, KurncHt Miihh, Jr, Mr. Hanimerln; bull guinea, Joe liolllo, Fred Metznor, II, HcnnlnnHon: mioaker, II. T. THchlrgl, II. Ilcnnlni; flnn sind Joe Holllo; vaudeville, J. Itenmes, E, Chapman, I!. I.. Ilnrvcy. DENMARK COMMANDEERS GRAIN The United States Consul General at Copenhagen reports that the Minister of the Interior has issued an order to the government's agents to take possession of all supplies of rye and wheat now in Denmark. Every person engaged in the growing of wheat or rye will be allowed to retain 1 35 pounds of grain for private use. The maximum price to be allowed each holder of wheat will be $1.83 a bushel; of rye, about $1.50. Henceforth, if rye or wheat go to Germany from Denmark it will constitute an act to which the Danish govern ment is a party and for which that government must stand responsible. An agreement has been reached between the allies and the United States by which neutral European coun tries may receive from this country foodstuffs, etc., sufficient only for their own consumption. The practice of supplying Germany with goods purchased from us is to be stopped. ' YOUNG SLACKERS BY SCORE CROSS MEXICAN LINE LAREDO, Tex., May 30. Fedoral of ficials hero today (IIhcIohoJ the fuct that from 15 to 20 young Americans with llttlo baggago but carrying plon ty of monoy, are croflning Into Moxl co dully, oHtonnlbly to mine, prospect for oil or pursue othor ocpupatlons for which thoy are apparently not tralnod. It Is believed by officials that they are leaving the United States to avoid con scription. Most of the young men are from the eastern slates, some being from points as fur east as Maine and Now Hump-shire. CONVICTS GIVE LARGE SUMS FOR LIBERTY BONDS WASHINGTON, May 30. Prisoners at the Maryland penitentiary have bought $2150 worth of Liberty loan bonds with savings from their small wage allowances. One man serving a long term spent $250 of the $278 to his credit. A former West Virginia train robber put all but a few dollars of bis savings into bonds. Mr. und Mr. J. J. Cooke, who liuvo been nt KiiKcnn, where they attended the convention of tho I. O. O- K. and Itebekah lodge, have returned to Ore gon City, While at Kugeno Mr, und Mr. Cooke visited with Mr. und Mr. Frunk McAllliitor. iiIho with C. V Walker, uncle of Mr. Cooke. Mr. Walk or I olio of thu curliest of Oregon pio neers, and Htlll retain TOO acre of land, In a donation la ml claim secured In 1X51! when ho urrlved from Missouri This is one of the most valuable pieces of fun n land In Limn county nnd Is stocked with over 100 head of cuttle, busliles a largo number of vulu nldo horses. CIoho to this Is nnolhor furm owned by Mr. Walker consisting of HiO ncres, moHt of this being planted to fruit trees. Although Mr. ' Walker has reached his 87th birthday anniver sary, he manages his furm und still enjoys horseback riding, and says that ho fools many years younger than he really Is. Ills large barn Is still lilted with hay, thin lining produced on tills furm, and strange to say thoro Is one portion of hay In this barn that has remained In tho sumo place, for .'10 ye:irs. Mr. Walker dcllghls In show ing thlB to his vixitors at his furm, and ns thoro Is always a l.ii'co supply on hnnd, It hus never been so that this liny that was placed there !I0 yearH ugo has to he used for thn stock. Manv Improvements that huve boon miiile in this barn, are thn handiwork of this old pioneer. Mr. Walker has ever? thing up-to-date on his farm, oven own ing nn automobile, nnd snys that he believes In enjoying life while he can IN ILLUSTRATED IK Graphically describing the unsani tary conditions oxlstlng In tho Oregon stnto ponltontlnry, L. 0. McDonald, for more thun four years an Inmuto of the Institution, hold nn audlonce spell bound nt tho high school auditorium Tuesday night, nnd urged his honrers to cast tholr votos in favor of tho ap propriation for ft new ponltontlary. Tho question will bo on tho ballot at tho special election In Juno. Mr. McDonald Illustrated his talk with picture of the ponltontlnry, show ing tho obsolete buildings that wore constructed In 1871. Ho told of tho dnriKors from flro at the Institution, and said that tho chancos wore right for tho death of ovory lnmnto of tho colls should a fire break out at night, when tho men were locked up with slnglo padlocks. Illustrations of the shops, kitchon, dining room, chnpol, roll houses, und hospital wore glvon by McDonald, who whb Introduced by E. E. Jlrodio, A mom bor of tho survey board ppolnted last Novombor by tho governor to mako an Investigation of tho ponltontlnry. SEATTLE MAN IS HELD PORTLANDER TRY8 FOR RECORD ALAMEDA, Cal., May 30. Norman Ross, formerly of Portland, Oregon, champion swlmmor, today hopes to lower Ted Burns' time of C6 4-5 sec onds by the 75 backstroke when he swims at Neptune beach. Time also will be taken at the 60-yard mark, Ross also having hopes of lowering Duke Kahanamoku's record for that distance. WASHINGTON, May 30. A list of all known American prisoners of war lm Germany made public today by tho state department contains the names of 71 men, all of whom wero taken from morchnnt ships captured by German war yeBsols. The list Inclmlos the following names and add rosso: At Dulmen: Easter, Ijwis, 22 Itounoko streot, Soattlo Wash.; Phil lips, Paul, Mrs. M. Phillips, 151 South Fulro.iks avonue, Pasadena, Cal.; Saw yer, John, Mrs. J. Sawyer, 305 Semin ary street, Dubuque, la.'