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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1917.
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WOMAN'S NEW JOBS.
Tremendous social changes in the life of women will take
place from this war, as they have in England. Men having
been drafted for army service, women are everywhere working
into new fields. They are running hotel tlevators, serving as
clerks in railroad freight offices .acting as messengers, in fact
filling any positon where strength s not required. And judg
ing from the athletic appearance of the majority of modern
girls, the strength factor won't eliminate them very long.
In some steel working factories, women are being employ
ed extensively. They have long furnished the backbone of the
labor in the textile fields, and are everywhere in the boot and
shoe industry. The claim is made by many employerrs that
women are capable of closer application, greater accuracy, and
better manual skill.
One man who has taken girls for messengers instead of
boys says they will return to the office in an hour where the
boys would formerly take two. The lingering ways of the
telegraph messenger boy were for a generation a favorite sub
ject for the humorist.
Women and girls who are undertaking new kinds of work
may get ow pay at first, but they willl find there is always an
opportunityfor anyone who shows exceptional skill. Manual
ability, accuracy and thoroughness in details, tact in dealing
with people, a gift for foresight and planning, a capacity for
acquiring information about things these qualities are none
too common. A woman who shows them will get her pro
motion though she may have to wait for it.
These qualities are noticed by employers and when vacan
cies occur the best equipped person will get them regardless of
sex. As years go on, many -women will become foremen of
gangs, while men of less ability and persistence will respect
f ullly take their orders.
CONGRESS AND THE NEWSPAPERS.
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It seems probable that the war finance bill will impose a
heavy tax on newspapers, on a basis applied to no other in
dustry. The discussion over this matter at Washington sug
gests that many Congressmen feel personal rancor at the
newspaper press, the result no doubt of real or fancied injuries,
in their own experience.
The newspaper community may well ask itself what it has
done to provoke this feeling of hostility. This does not mean
that publishers and editors should fawn and cringe. But
they are under the ordinary obligation to give fair treatment
to the men who are serving the country in its law making
bodies.
No doubt many of the faults of Congress, at which we all
rail, are faults inherent in human nature and our national
character. Electing a new set of Congressmen frequently
does not help things a particle, and the same traditional tend
encies reappear.
Yet when all this is said, it remains true that Congress lays
itself open to attack by persistence in practices contrary to
common sense. Prominent among these are the pork habit,
the parcelling out of favors to districts, the log rolling spirit
that leads men to vote for each other's schemes in order to get
their own through. Arbitrary traditions like that called Sen
atorial Courtesy shield unfit men in office, and in time of
war make it impossible to secure clear cut action.
The principal trouble is that too many Congressmen are
anxious about their political future, too fearful of defeat at
the polls. They shiver and shake before criticism, and imag
ine that if the newspapers could only be bottled up, they could
get by. So there grows up among the narrower type of Con
gressmen, an animus against the newspaper press, manifesta
tions of which have been seen
ositions. No man can advance
petty spirit. The newspapers should gladly pay a fair tax, but
they should not be asked to pay taxes levied on principles not
applied to other enterprises.
RICH MEN AND
The requirement of equal service by the conscription law
is going to put some hard problems up to the exemption
boards. As far as young married men go, the law seems to
bear down harder on the rich than on the poor, a condition
different from that existing in previous wars.
The wage earning class of young men are going to escape
conscription, as their wives are dependent on their labor. But
apparently the class of wealthy young married men will not
secure exemption, as their wives are not depending on their
labor, but are provided for out of the family property and cap
ital. It will take a firm sense of duty for the exemption boards
to enforce the law.
Feeling that there is an inconsistency here, many young
men of wealth will claim exemption. It remains to be seen
how the exmption boards will pass on these cases.
In the old times of titled nobility, it was considered the
mark of aristocracy for a man to show a certain indifference
to clanger. Noblesse oblige compelled him to display some
contempt of peril in a good cause. We have discarded aristo
cratic notions now, but every
be known as a gentleman, and
should show something of this
honor highest in life.
It will be a hard parting
wealth, but lots of them are going out of pure patriotism. Thev
have the comfort of knowing
for in any event. Their wives
mothers of the poor boys. Most of ihem will return, and will
be forever heroes. They can do lots of good at the front. They
ENTERPRISE
in some of these taxation prop
his political fortunes by his
THE DRAFT.
son of wealth at least aspires to
a gentleman, be he rich or Door.
fine old spirit of valuing his
for many young married men of
that their families are provided
do not feel any worse than the
are usually bright educated fellows who have seen a good deal
of life, and they help straighten out things wonderfully.
RUSSIAN RAILROADSt-AND OURS
American concerns have received orders for $28,000,000
worth of locomotives for Russian railroads. The account,
it is said, is virtually guaranteed by the government of the
United States. Some day the government of the United
States may decide to extend a helping hand to the railroads of
our own country not a mony grant or a guaranty of an ac
count, but a chance to do business under sane conditions and
as though the railroad managers were honest business men,
as they are, and not overreaching criminals, as so many min
isterial officers and prosecutors affect to believe.
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HILL MAY START IN
A VERY FEW DAYS
That work will probably start on
the grading of the New Era Hill by
the Warren Construction company
within a very few days, the belief
of -the county commissioners. The
contract for the grading was let last
week by the state highway commis
sion, on force account, after the com
mission had rejected a bid of the same
company for a sum in the neighborhood
of $33,000.
The purchase of the right of way tor
the new route has been arranged for
by the county court and although the
purchased has not been made, the !
terms of the sale have been practical-1
ly agreed upon. I
The new property involved in the
change of road will cost the county
something over $1000, said County
Commissioner H. A. Knight Wednes
day. Arrangements for the purchase of
parcels of land along the new route,
have already been made with Herman
Anthony, Joseph Andre and John Ri
nian, and it la entirely likely, said Mr.
Knight that a piece of land will be
bought from George H. Brown.
200 TONS OF HAY BURN
SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. Damage esti
mated at $5000 was done when tire de
stroyed a warehouse and nearly 200
tons of hay at the J. Schlndler dairy
here yesterday. The building contained
some grain and the hay, valued at $20
a ton, was stacked near the building.
Origin of the tire was not determined.
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SALEM, Or., Aug. 13. Express
companies will suspend the service
of picking up and delivering express
matter on Sundays, and on week
days atfer 5 p. m., according to a
communication received by the pub
lic service commission Saturday
from I. Waring, superintendent ofj,
the Great Northern Express com
pany, with offices at Seattle. Super
intendent Waring states that this ac
tion is taken to assist the national
council of defense in conserving men,
time and resources. Th movement
is nation wide and becomes effective
in Portland, Seattle, Tacotna and
Spokane on August 20. Commercial
organizations and shippers approve
of the move he declares. In lieu of'
the present system, the companies
will keep the offices open until 6
p. m., and the offices at the depots
will be open all the time.
The companies affected are the
American Express company, Great
Northern Express, Northern Ex
press, Wells, Fargo & Co., and the
Western Express company.
LLOYD 0. HARDING IS
OF 2D LIEUTENANT
Lloyd O. Harding, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Harding, of
Oregon City, who hag been at the offi
cers' reserve training camp at the Pre
sidio, San Francisco, for several
months, has received a commission as
second lieutenant, and has been or
dered to report at American Lake,
Wash., August 29.
Mr. Harding Is a well-known Oregon
City young man. He has for a year
and a half been an Instructor In the
Oregon City high school, and was re
elected to the position this year. He
Is a graduate of the University of Or
egon. LA GRANDE UNIT
IS ON ITS WAY
TO ARMY CAMP
LA GRANDE, Or., Aug. 15. The La
Grande hospital unit, numbering 83
men, Major J. P. Graham commanding,
entrained Tuesday night. Destination
of the unit was not made public.
Member! of the unit are highly elated
over the prospects of an early depart
ure for France, as recorded In Tues
day's press despatches.
A rousing farewell- reception was
tendered the unit by La Grande citizens.
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CALL OF A SEAM
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. C. P. W. Stoevcr, tor 14 years
pastor of the St Johns Lutheran
Church of Tacoma, has accepted the
pastorate of St. Paul's English Luther
an church, corner Forty-third street
and Fremont avenue, Seattle.
Rov. Stoever la the minister who ran
a close race with A. V. Fawcett for
mayor of the city of Tacotna In 19H.
During all the time he was in Tacoma
he was Interested not only In the re
ligious life of the city, but also in civ
ic affairs.
Rev. Stoever was bom and reared In
Oregon City. Ore., and Is probably the
only native Lutheran minister ou the
coast. He attended St. Paul's Theo
sophlcal Seminary at Lake Phelan, St.
Paul, for six years and later took the
pastorate of the Tacoma church. He
is making plans for the further build
ing up of the church.
St. Paul's church, which Is housed
In a splendid brick building, is one of
the tew English speaking Lutheran
churches In Seattle.
Rev. Stoever is the eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stoever, of Twelfth and Mon
roe streets, of this city. Rev. Stoever
attended the Oregon City schools be
fore attending college.
Ti
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,E.
A Ford automobile bearing the Ore
gon license number 11782, issued to
Roy R. Under of 690 Kearney street,
Portland, for a Fiat automobile, was
deserted by three soldiers at a point
near the Multnomah county line on
the 82d street road late Friday night.
Sheriff W. J. Wilson was notified and
the car was towed to Oregon City.
County Motorcycle Officer H. E.
Meads found this car at almost exactly
the same spot Tuesday night, locked
with a Yale lock. Meads went to Port
land to get a key with which to unlock
the car and when he returned In 20
minutes the machine was gone.
Because of the fact that only one
license was carried and it was issued
for another car, It Is believed that the
machine was stolen.
An automobile belonging to C. A.
Statts, of Toppenlsh, Wash., was found
on the Mllwaukie road where It had
been abandoned late Friday night.
Sheriff Wilson notified Mr. Statts who
took the machine away.
BROKEN BY BELLAMY
W. L. Miller, F. L. Tobey and W. L.
Tobey, doing business In Portland as
the Miller Wood company, tiled suit
Wednesday against Phillip Bellamy to
collect on an unfulfilled contract for
wood ordered to be cut
According to the complaint, the Mil
ler Wood company entered Into a con
tract with Bellamy on February 6, 1917,
by the terms of which Bellamy was to
cut wood near Kaylor station and de
liver all of it to the Miller Wood com
pany, with a minimum of 400 cords of
fir and 200 cords of oak. The price
was to be $3.75 for the fir wood and
$1.75 for the oak.
It is alleged that Bellamy cut 149
cords of oak wood and 638 cords of
the fir. Of this only 17 cords of
oak and 125 cords of fir were deliv
ered to the Miller company.
Tho wood Is worth $5 and $6 for the
fir and oak respectively, says the com
plaint, delivered In Portland. An or
der restraining Bellamy from selling
the wood to anyone else and compel
ling him to deliver the wood to the
Miller company, or pay them for their
loss, Is asked.
TWO MARRIAGE LICEN8E3
Carl Hesse, aged 20, and Edna Shee
ny, aged 20, each of whom gave their
home addresses as Cladstone, Or., were
granted licenses to wed Saturday aft
ernoon by County Clerk Iva M. Har
rington. Miss Elsie Hesse, of 360 East
41st street, Portland, acted as witness.
A marriage license wag also Issued to
Arthur Perry, aged 34, of Portland and
Miss Eva Cohn, aged 27.
Fifty Years Ago
Taken From Orgon City' Enterprise
August 10, 1867.
Nsw Ferry Boat It Is gratifying to
us that a new ferry boat is In course
of construction at this place, to sup
ply a want long felt for safer means
of transportation across Mitt rivet
here. i
8treet Improvement Commissioner
Iv. vuil has Just completed a neat liu
provement of tho road loading over
the bluff. New sidewalks have boon
lukl down In various parts of the city.
Narrow Escape-On Monday lust
Cnptalu George A. Pease, of this city,
run a narrow escape of losing his Ufa.
by being wound up by his clothing In
some machinery in the P. T. com
pany's warehouse, leaving lilm some
what In the condition our friend, C. O.
T. Williams found himself recently
after a paper mil accident.
War Brewing In Europe A council
of war la now being held In Russia
armies, under the presidency of the
csar himself. Plans of campaigns, sun
gested by the probublo condition bs
tween Franco and other' states urr
under consideration. It Is further as
serted Mint Prussia is eager to be
gin the wur Immediately, before
Franco can get Into an attitude. Rus
sia declines to postponement, which
however does not render the strife
less Inevitable.
Msxlco- Intelligence from Brazos
states Juurei has issued an address
complimenting the Mexicans for per
serving their liberty and achieving
the Independence of the Republic.
An election for president Is ordered to
take place immediately. The press
favors general amnesty. Tho coun
try Is divided Into six military dis
tricts. Escobodo and others are to
have command.
Naval Dock Orders have been re
ceived from KiiRland directing the
selection of a suitable slt on Van
couver Island for a naval yard.
CAR SHORTAGE INCREASES
SALEM. Or, Aug. 15. Car shortago
on the Southern Pacific took another
leap today, when the company's re
ports to the public service commission
show a shortage of 910 open cars and
a surplus of 84 closed cars, making a
net shortage of 826 cars, according to
the commission's method of figuring
the shortage.
!AL
EXEMPTION T0 11 OF
19 10 EILE CLAIMS
Clackamas county's local exemption
board has allowed the claims for ex
emption of 11 men and denied eight
claims, called In the first demand for
52 men. This makes It necessary to
Issued a second call for examination
next week.
The following were exempted: A
dolph Franzel, Joslah Rogers, German
A. Stone, William Simons, Samuel
Phillips, Sherman Carlton, Fillmore
Arnold, George C. Mitts, William Ma
ple, Herbert Huxley and Jac4 Jackie.
Claims for exemption were held to
be Insufficient In the cases of Enrico
Sevleii, resident alien, friendly; Rob
ert Mattoon, married with dependents;
John J, Laue, Ernest Douglas, married,
dependents, no children; Ed Bowen,
married, dependents; George Bertrand,
Carl Newburger, resident alien, and
Chester Conner.
TRY IT ON THE
DOG FIRST THEN
TAKE A CHANCE
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 13 Eating part
of an egg that bad been poisoned for
squirrels, the 19-year-old son of L.
C. Ingalls, of Pleasant Hill, narrowly
escaped death yesterday.
The boy's father had placed strycb
nine in an egg to kill a squirrel that
had been eating the eggs on the farm.
Mrs. Ingalls, In gathering the eggs on
Tuesday evening, did not notice the
hole in the one that her husband had
prepared for the squirrel and cooked
it. Her son ate a portion of It and
immediately became sick. The re
mainder of the egg was given to the
family dog and It died soon afterward.
PRISON GUARDS GET
NEAR SILVER FALLS
SALEM, Or., Aug. 13. Robert Burns
and J. B. Burg, who made a spectacu
lar escape from the penitentiary Wed
nesday forenoon, were captured near
Sliver Creek Falls this forenoon by a
posse headed by Warden Murphy and
consisting of Captain Keller, Lute Sav
age, Curtis Wltzel, Tobe Brous and
Chapel Guard Morelock.
Henry Smith, marshal at Stayton,
telephoned to Warden Murphy early
this morning that the two convicts had
been seen near Stayton, A searching
party left immediately from tho prison.
Near Silver Creek falls the posse sep
arated and the convicts were captured
soon after by Guard Brous.
CONCERNING
By John Curtis Underwood
of the Vigilantes
Friend Kipling wrote Home lines long
since that ended "Pay, Pay, pay!"
And he helped to clean up Africa.
That war was children's play
Willi Mils that has to sift the sea,
that's playing hide und nock
And prisoners' base with submarine
that scuttle life, Uist week
I heard a pure-food specialist stand up
and start his chant
With "Tho way to beat Merlin Is Just
to "Plant, Plant, Plant!"
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They say nil nature's short of crops
Mils year and next may be,
The world Is shy of shlpt. beside. It
spills grain In the sea.
The answer's wider acreage. The
fanner'll do his share
If you want to heat thus butchers of
babies In the nlr
You'll tell your wife's relations and
tho uncles of your mint
And your seventh cousin twice re
moved to "Plant, Plant, Plant!"
Now I have a gift for gardens and I'vn
dug my trenches there.
I've planted seeds. Instead of shells
and madei the nelKhbors stare.
I've ranged my ranks of carrots, and
beets, and lieund. and pens,
JEEE NEW IS
OYER TO THE
Apparently the entire cuse of the
United States vorsus Jefferson New, of
Jennings Lodge, charged with evading
the draft law, will rost upon the
change which Is said to have been
made In the family bible.
New was bound over to the grand
jury Tuesday under $1500 bull.
At the hearing before United States
Commissioner Drake In Portland Tues
day, It developed that the only place
Jefferson New had attended school,
was In Tillamook county, the school
records of which were destroyed In a
fire In the courthouse there 14 years
ago.
The effort of the prosecution has
been to show that the records of the
blb'le were changed to read "March 22,
1888," when they originally were
March 22. 1887." If thU be truo. New
Is but 30 years of age and eligible for
conscription. No birth certificate has
ever been tiled In Clackamas county,
which would tlx the dato ot bis birth.
Mrs. Molllo Abbey, New's mother,
explains the change in the records by
claiming that last Christmas at a fam
ily reunion the dates of all the chil
dren's births were entered In the bi
ble. After the reunion she decided that
Jeff bad been born a year earlier than
the date entered In the book. Accord
ingly, she says that she changed the
entry.
Special Deputy United States Dis
trict Attorney Earle Latouretto rep
resented tho prosecution and mombers
of the local draft board and Deputy
District Attorney Thomas Burke were
witnesses against New.
MUTTON SALE CURB
SALEM, Or., Aug. 13. When the
northwest governors' conference con
venes at Portland tomorrow Governor
Wlthycombe will ask that the attend
ing governors protest to Food Admin
istrator Hoover against his recent de
cision that mutton should be tabooed
as food in hotels and eating houses.
Tho conference will also consider the
I. W. W. situation In all states and tho
problems arising In connection with
the war.
"Food Administrator Hoover's atti
tude towards mutton, as food, is dis
criminatory against the western sheep
Industry, and I shall ask the governors
to go on record against It," said Gov
ernor Wlthycombe. "Western lambs
are practically grown sheep, and Its
meat is tho most economical food we
have.
"Because of the scarcity ot range
tho western sheep men can not carry
their lambs over, and If mutton is ta
booed as food it will moan that sheep
men will have to reduce their breed
ing flocks, Western lambs weigh be
tween 75 and 85 pounds, and the best
policy for the western states Is to al
low the sheep men to put them on
the market."
Governor Wlthycombe said he had
been advised that tho governors of
Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah
would attend tho conference.
HOLY ROLLER IS
HELD AT KELSO:
CHARGE SERIOUS
KELSO, Wash., August 13. B. H.
Flndley, who has ueen associated
here with A, Polllochlotty and others
In the Pentecostal evangollstlc serv
ices often referred to as "Holy
Rollers,' was taken Into custody last
evening by Marshal M. E. Hull on In
formation from Waukegan, III.,
charging blm with a statutory crime.
WANTING
With pinks and roses round the stiles
as pretty us you please.
This year the Mowers will Imvo to no,
My wlf says that wit shan't
Steal one more Hi'lalim baby's life,
So "Plant. Plant, Plant!"
This year the game Is gardens. This
year the fud Is food.
Gad, If they plow their golf Unit up
I'd cheer the multitude
That have the money luiblt. If all
would tuk their turn
Tho butlers and the ladles' maids to
weed aiKhoe tiilttltl learn.
Say that's some Cubist picture. My
kids declare they can't
Slice up their tennis court, Ihit Mil
says "Plant, Plant, Plant!''
Canal sides In New York will bloom,
ItestdoH our railroad tracks
We're going to turn the Germans out.
Around the rusty shacks
Where we used, to tin our dumping,
und on every vucant lot
I've a picture of a planting worth tons
of steel and shut.
Though pacUlsts nitty preach and
doubt and fools may rave mid rant,
Wn are going to knock Mm Kaiser out
HO "Plant. Plant. Plant!"
STRIKE ON U. S.
IS AVOIDED BY
NEW YORK, Aug. 13,-The threat
ened strike ot carpenters, employed In
government work In this district on
cantonments, navy yard construction
and aviation Molds was called off to
day. An agreement was reached after
a conference between government of
ficials and labor union leaders under
which It was agreed that union hours
and wages will hereafter prevail on
the work contracted for by the govern
ment. The contractors had objected to Uie
demands of tho Carpenters' union that
no nonunion labor be employed.
The agreement provides, It was an
nounced, that only union labor will be
employed.
The carpenters bad demanded the
Immediate discharge of all nonunion
carpenters from federal work, or the
cancellation by the government ot
contracts with all firms employing
such labor. At prestnt, It was said,
only Eastern territory Is Involved In
the specific discussions, but union lead
ers said they would make a nation
wide affair of It unless tholr demand
were met.
WASHINGTON, Aug. lO.-Posslbll-Ity
of Important government contracts
being Impeded seriously by labor dis
putes virtually Is eliminated by the
creation ot a special commission with
extraordinary powers to settle Indus
trial troubles. The council ot national
defense will award contracts only to
those who will abide by the decisions
of tho board and require pledges ot
their employes to do so.
Members of tho board will soon bo
selectod. There are to bo nine of them.
throe representing tho government,
three employers and three labor.
DRAFT DODGERS ARE
SENT TO TAIL BY
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PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 13. -Thirty-live
members of a colony of Molo
kans, Russian religionists living near
Glendale, eight miles west of here,
wuro taken last night In a barred car
to Prcscott, Arl.., to servo sentences
of one year each In tho county Jail
there f'or refusing to register under
Ltho selective draft act.
Before the departure of the prison
ers tho police arrested 338 other mem
bers of tho colony for creating a dis
turbance outsldo the city Jail where
some of tho prisoners were confined.
Women and men attacked the officers
who attempted to subdue the dls
turbance, several women boating po
licemen over their heads with urn
brnllas whllo ono man waved a knife,
but wus overpowered before any ono
was hurt.
Whn sontonco was pronounced by
United Slates Distrlcfi .Indue Saw!
tollo yetsonlay afternoon there was a
wild scene In tho court, women and
mon shouting their protests. Some
of tho court attendants wore slightly
scratched whllo subduing tho disor
der. The prisoners then were ro
moved to tho Jail and given cold baths
to qulot thorn.
8HIRKER HELD AT BLY
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 13.
Joe Burns, an alleged Bhlrker, was ar
rested at Ely last week on tho charge
of attomptlng to evado the draft law
and he Is also charged with using a
fictitious name. Burns has borno four
different names during a resldonco In
tho county ot loss than that many
months, It is claimed. Ho was bound
ovor to the federal grand Jury,
Myrtle Point: Work started on Co.
qulllo river bridge.