OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1917.
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WOMAN'S PART IN THE WAR
All kinds of advice are being handed out to women as to
how they can help in the war. A conscientious woman, anx
ious to assist in exery possible way, must be bewildered by the
conflicting suggestions.
Many of these ideas are advanced by people with their
heads in the clouds who do not see the immediate and practical
thing that any person can do. Some of us feel so dismayed
by the wastes of our distribution system, that the plain and
simple means of everyday economy appear too trifling to in
terest them. But our distribution problems are too large to be
remedied offhand. While new economic systems are being
organized, the war will be won or lost.
Meanwhile, there is one thing that every woman can do in
a simple and practical way. That is to co-operate heartily
with the government suggestions as to food economy. This
obligation comes home especially to women of wealth who
keep servants. In such homes the pinch of necessity has nev
er impelled either mistress or maid toward economy. It seems
easier to throw food awy than to bother to adapt it to table
use.
The woman of wealth can do more to win the war through
work in the kitchen than by any other thing she can attempt.
If she knows nothing about cooking, it is time for her to learn.
She will find a new pleasure in life in providing herself and
her family with dishes of a dainty and temptng quality that
few hired underlings ever attain. It will not be long before
she realizes that the home of wealth is accustomed to waste
more materials than it uses. That makes food scarce for all
of us and helps the enemies of our country.
The women are responding so nobly to this and other calls
that such advice seems almost needless. Hundreds of thous
ands of women in luxurious homes have put on their aprons,
rolled up their sleeves and are baking and broiling. The scar
city tf servants makes it often obligatory. All over the coun
try women are rolling bandages and knitting comfort articles.
They can be relied upon to do their share.
BLOCKADING GERMANY.
A real blockade of Germany has begun at last. The iron
ring around the Central Powers is being closed. The work
begun and carried on by Great Britain, France and Russia,
with but partial success is being completed by the United
States.
It is well nown that British sea power has not availed to
prevent Germany from importing huge quantities of food
stuffs and war materials from Holland, Switzerland and the
Scandinavian countries. It is largely through the food thus
obtained that she has been able to hold out so long. All her
little, neutral neighbors have taken advantage of their situa
tion to import more food than they needed and sell their sur-
Iplus to Germany. The United States is now the sole hope
of Europe s food supply. We can keep the countries in ques
tion from feeding Germany by selling them merely as much
food as they need for themselves. And this our government
is going to do hereafter, through the exercise of powers con
ferred on the president by a recent act of congress.
The thing is fairly simple. The enterprise looks innocent
enough one the face of it. An "exempt council" has been
formed, under the president's, direction, which is going to
"direct" all exports of foodstuffs and war materials. There is
nothing explicitly said about an "embargo." But an embargo
it is, just the same. And it will soon be drawn so tight that
there will be little leakage into Germany. The neutrals in
volved will have no reasonable ground of complaint.
lhus the Gertna ngovernment, by driving us into war
against our will, subjects the German nation quickly to the
greatest peril it has yet faced. Food, skilled observers say,
will probably decide this war. If German harvests are a fail
ure this year, and if our food embargo works as well as it
should, we shall have contributed greatly toward shortening
the war.
It may seem cruel. It is. But Germany has brought it on
herself. The war she began is infinitely cruel. Her ruthless
methods have steadily added to its cruelty. It is merciful to
end it, even by using hunger as a weapon.
HOTEL LIFE
In spite of the great number of people who spend vacations
in cottages and bungalows of their own, summer hotels are
being built all the time, and many of them of great magnifi
cence. You may be far .away from the haunts of men and all
provisions and supplies may have to be carted over the road.
But the machinery of lavish living follows even to the wilder
ness. Even in the wild scenes of nature, you will find your
oriental rugs and plate glass windows and mahogany furni
ture. The thing seems exotic and artificial, but it seems to
take this kind of an atmosphere of display to make some peo
ple feel at home.
There are plenty of simpler resorts for the quiet folks also.
Every hotel has its own type of people. Some are inexpensive
and rough and plain, appealing to people who like plently of
good food but would as soon it were thrown on a table. Oth
ers no more costly have somehow attracted to themselves cir
cles of people who are rich in intelligence and culture if not in
money. 5 Associations are formed in places like these that last
a life-time and are elevating and enriching.
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its a gamDiing game io engage summer ooara rrom the
handsome prospectuses that the managers send to your ad
dress. The hotel may be equipped with all the facilities for
amusement, and you feast your eyes on the prospects of ten
nis courts, lovely dance music, and charming society. When
you get there the old habitues look over their shoulders at you
superciliously, and perhaps will venture a few words of stilt
ed conversation about the time you go home.
It is hard to imagine a more uneasy or unpleasant situation
than being a guest among people with whom one is not con
genial. The people who get the most out of hotel life are those
that go to places recommended by friends, or who try out an
inn a few days before settling down for their whole vacation
I Conscripted
By Blanche fthoemaksr Wagataff t
of the Vlgllantaa
You ask me why I gave my aont
(Ah, well dome Uod know why!)
That Prussian blood may awlftly run,
That tyranny may die!
That over earth all men may go
At freedom's cull, and none may know
The Vandal's vowr In our Lund,
Tho Vundnl'a arrogant command!
You ask me why I Rave my eon?
(Ah, well does liod know why!)
I gave 111 m that tho barbarous lluu
Might In his own blood Ho!
I gave him thut the coming race
Might moot with Justice face to race,
.And free men mingle on tho eurth
In Liberty's rebirth!
MY AUTO TI8 OF THEE
DEMOCRATS OPPOSE EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE.
In the conference committee which dealt with the food-
control bill, Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, moved to strike
out the senate amendment providing for a joint committee on
war expenditures. His argument was that the subject-matter
was foreign to the nature of the bill and that the proposed com
mittee could be provided for in another way. The proposal
tor the joint committee first came before the senate on the
initiative of Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. On the ninth
of April, only a week after the present extra session of Cong
ress began and four months ago, Mr. Weeks presented a bill
calling for the creation of the joint committee. It was refer
red to the committee on rules and there it has slumbered
ever since. Now it so happens that Senator Hoke Smith of
Georgia is a member of the committee on rules; and it is not
recorded that he has ever shown any overweening indisposi
tion to bring the Weeks resolution forward or to favor the
proposition in any effective manner. The Democratic major
ity in the senate committee on rules, of whom Senator Hoke
Smith is one, acting, we have reason to believe, at the sueees-
tion of the White House, has for four months neglected to
deal with the Weeks resolution though the vote on the ques
tion has shown a substantial majority of the whole senate to
be in favor -bf it. The same influence that led the committee
on rules to its masterly inactivity in this matter was moving
the Democrats in the conference committee to try to kiM the
joint committee by active opposition when once the question
had ben forced upon their attention. The argument of Sena
tor Hoke Smith was disingenuous, to say the least.
My auto, 'tis of thee, Short cut to
poverty, Of thee I chant. I blew a pile
or dough, On you two years ago, Now
you refuse to go, Or won't or can't.
Through town or countryside, You
were my joy and pride, A happy day,
I loved thy garfdy hue, thy four white
tires so new .Now down and out for
true, In every wuy.
To thee, old rattle box, Came many
bumps and knocks, For thee I grieve.
Hadly thy top Is torn, Frayed are thy
seats and vrorn. A counh affects they
horn, I do perceive.
Thy perfume swells the breeie,
While Rood folks cough snd sneeze.
As we pass by. I paid for the a
price, 'twould buy a mansion thrice.
Now ull are yelling "ice"; I wonder
why.
They motor has the grippe, Thy
spark plug has the pip, And woo Is
thine. I, too, have suffered chills.
Ague and kindred Ills. Trying to pay
my bills, Since thou wert mine.
Gone Is my bank roll now, No more
' twould choke a cow," As once be
fore. Yet If I had the mon, So help
me Johnamen, I'd buy a car again,
And speed some more.
Fifty Years Ago
Taken From the Oregon City Enter
prise, August 3, 1867
Warm Day On last Wednesday1 In
this city the thermometer stood 93 de
grees in the shade, northern .exposure.
Blackberries It pays well to culti
vate a garden, In every instance, but
we know nothing that can he more
profitable than cultivating such choice
blackberries as Mr. Dlanchard, of Can
emah, laid upon our table last Tups
day. They were of the Logan variety
and beat anything we have seen In the
state of Oregon. He has grapes which
are superior, both as to size and vari
ety.
WINNING THE WAR
Baseball Gams The Clackamas sec
ond nine played a match game with the
Highlanders of this city, on Tuesday,
July 30. The game commenced at 3
o'clock p. m., and occupied two hours
and 35 minutes, which resulted in the
defeat of the Highlanders by eight
scores. Mr. Summers, of the High
landers, made one home run. Messrs.
White and Bacon acted as scorers, and
A. J. Apperson umpire.
CONGRESS, STAND FIRMl
Bonar Law tells the English parliament that the total cost
of the war to Great Britain thus far has been $26,640,000,
000; and his predecessor in the exchequer predicts that it will
take $40,000,000 a day to carry on hostilities. This would
mean $14,000,000,000 a year. The estimated cost to the
United States for our first year of warfare is something like
$1 7,000,000,000. England has a parliamentary government,
and every penny of its war money is expended under the scru
tiny of parliament. What kind of a government we have is,
for the moment, problematical. But it is certain that the
American people will not consent to expenditures far in ex
cess of those of England for war purposes unless they can have
a portion, at least, of the safeguards which the English people
possess. No action of congress for a generation has come so
near to touching the heart of governmental problems in the
United States as this which has just been taken in the demand
to know and to know before the fact what becomes of pub
lic money that has been voted liberally and demanded even
more lavishly. Congress shoult not and cannot retreat from
the position which the senate has taken by a vote of one po
litical party in its entirety and by a vote of practically one
third of the other political group. This vote lifts the problem
above the feld of partisanship and makes it national in scope.
It is not too much to say that the future of the nation, in every
legislative aspect at least, depends in large measure upon the
manner in which cougress responds to the present challenge
of its prerogative.
This war is terribly depressing," some people complain.
"It is an overpowering weight on our hearts. An atmosphere
of sorrow and gloom shrouds the world. The sight of all
these war preparations in our country is infinitely depressing.
The whole thing leaves us weak and helpless."
It is natural that sensitive natures should feel so; but it is
useless, and even wicked, to indulge such sentiment. It is
purely negative and destructive. What we need now indi
viduals and cities and nations and groups of nations is the
positive, constructive, forward-looking spirit.
Weak souls yield to sorrow and let their grief turn to gloom.
Strong souls should rise above it, making their grief a step
ping stone to victory.
Let us get firmly fixed in our minds, at the outset of a war
that is going to try all our souls, the habit of positive, optimis
tic thought.
Are we giving a son or brother to the army? Let us not
think of the spearation, of the toil and the pain he will suffer.
Let us think of the way he is going to fight, for us, of the bat
tles he is going to win, of the fine ideals he exemplifies.
Are we paying burdensome war taxes or contributing to
the war loans? Let us not think of the burden, but of the
good that money will accomplish, of the return it will bring us
in freedom, in the overthrow of mighty evils, in the triumph of
international righteousness, in the establishment of secure
peace.
Are we giving to the Red Cross? Let us reckon the gift
not as charity, but as money we pay gladly, to have done for
us what we would eagerly do with our own hands if we could.
Whatever we do as "our bit" toward the war, let us do it
ungrudgingly, cheerfully, hopefully, knowing that it will not
be done in vain.
There is only one possibility for our nation in this biff strue
gle. That is Victory. And it is the same with every individ
ual whose.heart and head are strong enough to match the spir
it and purpose of America.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Weak sentiment
must go. Men and women must think braver thouchts.
Tl wr ... ... .
i ius war is a monster, but not destined to destroy human
w ... . i . in .
w C arc ronger man u. we are going to destroy War.
ity.
New Camp Captain Kelly, of the
cavalry arm of service In the military
department, struck a new camp atn
point opposite Oswego at 5 o'clock on
last Wednesday. The steamer, "Fan
nle Troup" made three special trips
to the camp, bringing a large quantity
of supplies, horses, etc., necessary for
the expedition which In a few days
will take up Its line of march to Port
Boise via the Klamath region. -
LOCAL CREAMERY
WINSHONORS
AT COR VALLIS
HIGHWAY COMMISSION AUTHORIZES
. PAVING OF TWO AND ONE-HALE
MILES BY WARREN PEOPLE
SALEM, Or., Aug, , At an nil-day
session Tuesday the state highway
commission sold ths first 1500.000
bonds of the 16.000,000 highway bond
Issue, awarded a number of contracts
tor highway projects, awarded con
tracts for 10 concrete bridges or cross.
Inge on the Columbia river highway
In the Heaver creek valley, and listened
for two hours to residents of Yamhill
and l'olk counties Interested In the
location of the west side highway be
tween McMlnuvlllo and Dallas.
The bonds were sold to the Lum-
bermens Trust company of I'ortluml
for 1471,300, which members of the
highway commission figured allows
the buyers approxlmstely 4H per cent
Interest. The bonds, which will be Is
sued In serials, will bear four per cent
Interest.
Meeting In conjunction with the
highway commission, the state board
of control opened bids on $100,000 of
bonds to be issued on authority of the
Bean-Barrett act to match the federal
funds tor forest and post roads. The
Lumbermen's Trust company was also
the bent bidder tor these bonds, but as
the bid was under that offered for the
00,000 Issue, the board of control
.ejected It and decided to resdvertlso
for bids on a different basis.
For the $400,000 bonds, the Lumber
mens Trust company bid $373,730.
There were three other bidders In both
Instances. These proposed bonds were
to run 20 years, with the option of re
tiring one half of them at the end of
10 years.
The board decldod to readvertlse for
bids on short term bonds, $100,000 to
be retired at the end of five years and
$100,000 esch year thereafter until the
$400,000 la taken up.
Ill ls were opened for nine different
road construction projects. In only
three instancea did the commission ac
cept the low bid and award the con
tract. In four other cases the commis
sion awarded the contracts on force
account, plus IS per cent profit, with
guaranteed unit price coats. In the
remaining two Instances the work will
be done by the counties on a force ac
count bssla. Following are the con
tracts awarded:
Tillamook county, grading and hard
surfaclnt with bltullthlc five miles of
coast highway, to Oscar Huber, Port
land, for $110,644.84; highway engin
eer's estimate about $97,824.
Columbia county, paving with bltu
llthlc 2 miles of Columbia river high
way from Multnomah county line to
Seappoone, to the Warren Construc
tion company, $.18.0(17.55; highway en
gineer's estimate $311,730.
Columbia county, macadam, 1714
miles of Columbia river highway be
tween Clatsop county line and Qoble,
to Clark and Fllppsn, $109,891; high
way engineer's estimate $83,620.
Wheeler county, crushed rock ma
cadam, i miles of John Day high
way, to Warren Construction company
on force account. The company's bid
was $19,179 40 and the highway en
gineer's estimate wss $18,714.
Clatsop county, macadam, 15H miles
of Columbia river highway, from Sven
son to Westport, to Warren construc
tion company on force account. The
company's bid was $134,676.30, and the
highway engineer's estimate was $S4,
737. Gilliam county, broken stone and ma
cadam, 6.7 miles between Condon and
Thirty Mile crook, to Warren construc
tion company, on force account. The
company's bid was $23,344.
Clackamas county grading from New
Kra to Oregon City, SM, miles, to War
ren lonsiruciion company, force ac
count. The company's bid was $33.
125, and the highway engineer's esti
mate was $25,590. County and state
funds available for the work total $30,
000. For building a volcanic cinder road
from Ilend to I I'lne, 17 miles, the
Warren Construction comnany bid
$47,810. which was rejected.
The county has $17,000 available for
the work, and will build by force ac
count so much as can be done for that
sum.
Only one bid was received for the
Improvement of four and a halt miles
of the Columbia river highway In Was
co county. This was from Wolfe
Uibbona for $25,145, and was rejected.
The county will do the work by force
sccount.
Five bids were received for the con
struction of 10 concrete bridges and
crossing on the Columbia river high
way through Heaver creek valley In
Columbia county. The contrast was
swarded to L. O. Herrold of Balrnn for
$36,959, which was the low bid. The
bid la $9000 under the hlghwsy engi
neer's estimate. The bridges are to
be completed by June 1, 1918.
The highway commission did not
sttempt to reach a decision on the lo
cation of the west side Pacific high
way between McMlnnvllle and Dallas,
but announced that further hearings
will be held by Commissioner Adsms
at McMlnnvllle and Dallas, on dates
ta be named.
SQUABBLEOVERWES
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IE HIGHWAY ROUTE
SALEM, Or., Aug. 7. Representa
tives of Polk and Yamhill counties in
jected fireworks Into a conference with
the state highway commission today
when opposing factions who are in
controversy over the west side route
of the t'aciflc highway, urged their
claims before the commission.
Because of lack of time and the large
number of Interested persons present,
the commissioners announced at the
outset that no decision would be ar
rived at today, requested that only
statement of a general nature be made
and announced that Commissioner Ad
dams will conduct hearings at McMlnn
vllle and Dallas on consecutive days,
when the question will be threshed out
In detail. The dates for the hearings
have not been set.
Among those who appeared urging
the route from Dallas to McMlnnvllle
by way of Amity and RIckreall was
State Senator C. L. Hawley, whose Ire
was arouBed and who struck tire from
Commissioners Thompson and Adams,
both of whom voted for the Ballston
route, contrary to the Judgement of
Chairman Benson.
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SALEM, Or., Aug. T. At the open
ing of bids here today for the Issu
ance of $r00,000 In bonds under tho
$6,000,000 bonding art, and the Issu
ance of $100,000 bonds under tho
Heun-IUirrett law, the Lumbermen
Trust company, of I'ortlund, proved
the highest bidder for both Issues.
Dills wore opened ut the joint senslon
of tho highway commission and the
board of control. After they were
opened the session adjourned until
this arternoon when they will be
further considered.
Illds for the $50,000 bonds como
under the jurisdiction of the high
way commission and the Jjumboi
mens Trust company's bid will un
doubtedly be accepted. Illda. for
$100,000 come under the Jurisdiction
of the board of control and ultliough
State Treasuror Kay appeurod to
favor re-advertlslng, It la bolleved
this bid will also be accepted.
The Oregon City Creamery took first
place at a scoring contest recently held
at the Oregon Agricultural college In
which a great many contestants from
all over the state entered exhibits of
butter and cheese. The scorers were:
O. E. Frevert of the United States
dairy division, L. B. Zeimer of the
State Dairy and Food Commissioner's
office, and P. S. Lucas.
The following creameries had entries
which scored 90 or over:
Oregon City Creamery ..93.33
Mount Angel Creamery 93.16
Clarence M, Barklow, Norway . . .92.00
St. Helens Co-operative Creamery
Company ......91.50
McMlnnvllle Creamery Co. ..... .91.50
Toledo Co-operative Creamery
Association 91.50
Independence Creamery 90.83
Hudson Bay Co-operative Cream
ery, Umaplne 90.83
Clear Creek Creamery Co., Or
egon City 90.16
8ILVER 13 AVIATING
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. Bar sliver
rose to a new record of 82 cents an
onnce in the local' market today, the
highest quotation, according to deal
en. in almost 30 yean. The move
ment was concurrent with a new max
Imum for the metal in the London mar
ket 1
PRISONER GETS
AWAY FROM FLAX
FIELD SUNDAY
SALEM, Or., Aug. 6. Joe Walburn,
a member oi tne prsion nonor gang,
employed in the flax fields at the John
Etter place eight miles from Salem,
escaped late Sunday afternoon. The
preceding Sunday three other mem
bers of the gang also took French
leave, and none of them have been
recaptured.
Walburn had done his day's work
and went to a nearby swimming pool
for a dip In the water and a change of
clothes. That was the last seen of
him. The prison hounds were put on
his trail, but they soon ran into red
pepper, which was liberally sprinkled
along the trail and the scent was lost,
The convict was Bent up from Was
co county for burglary.
ALASKAM youths of
JUDGE AIDS RED CROSS
BEND, Or., Aug, 7. Evolving a
unique plan for aiding the Red Cross,
County Judge W. D. Barnes of Des
chutes county, is donating all money
he receives for officiating at mar
rlage ceremonies to the local chapter
of the organization,
MONTHS TO REGISTER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Over lone
ly mountains pusses and through
great stretches of wild country the
conBcrlptable youths of Alaska's 65,
000 Americans are trudging to regis
ter for the draft. Among them are
several hundred Eskimo lads.
Farther down .toward civilization
American boys from prospectors'
gangs are coming In from the moun
tains. Some must travel many miles
to reach the mountain cubln or fron
tier settlement where Uucle Sam's
agent awaits them,.
General headquarters is the office
of General J. A. Strong at Juneau.
Word to General Crowdor's office
from there today said the draft Is pro
ceeding rapidly .considering the dlffl
cultles of travel. ,
Owing to lack of facilities for com'
munlcatlng registration intelligence,
the Alaskan' "registration day" con
tlnuea from 7 a. m. July 2, to 9 p. m.,
September 2. Sundays and holidays
are excepted.
Alaska's drawing will be held prob
ably at the provost marshal general'!
office here late in September.
Marshfield:
work double
lights.
New shipyard hen will
shifts under eleotrio