OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1 91 7
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PROTECTING OUR CITIZENS
It is the request of our government that all agencies for
forming public opinion, including the newspapers, should take
occasion to speak of the causes of the war, so that all our peo
ple may have a clear idea of just
The first end in view is to protect our citizens. Our people
have been foully murdered while exercising their rights to
traverse the high seas. These people were not in most cases
bent on frivolous errands, as
Many or them were innocent women and cnildren. Utners
were men on business errands, seeking orders and material
with which to keep our factories working and our people em
ployed. Many others were hard working mechanics, diligent
ly plying their vocations as seasmen, stokers, etc.
It makes no difference that
ing munitions. They had a
ways been agreed that a neutral power had the right to sell
munitions to a belligerent. Germany has often exercised the
same right when she was a neutral in previous wars.
These people had just as much right to travel on those ships
as a citizen of this place has to
this town. When they were
trary to all laws of God and
If a nation is going to command any respect at all, it must
protect its citizens when they
If the American flag stands for nothing, if any people can
trample it in the dirt, if business and working men can not
leave the country on lawful errands, we must expect to degen
erate into a second class power. No one will pay any atten
tion to us and the world will regard our talk as bluff. If we
had years ago taken a more decided stand, Germany would
not have dared kill our citizens and defy U3. It is time to
demonstrate, that the American
impunity.
COMMERCIAL RIVALRY INCREASING
Vice President Burchard, of the General Electric company,
who recently returned from a visit to Japan,- is quoted as say
ing that Japan has become immensely prosperous since he
outbreak of the war and is fast expanding commercially and
particularly in shipping. Shipbuilding is very active and the
ships are earning big returns, the rates from Yokohama having
increased 800 per cent since the war began.
Mr. Burchard's comments serve to impress upon us once
more the fact that we have in Japan an increasingly great and
active commercial competitor. Politically our relations with
that nation are of the friendliest. We gladly aided in the
awakening of that country but a few decades ago. For some
unknown reason the people of this country sympathized with
her in her war with Russia, though our sentiments, if influ
enced by past events, should have been with the subjects of
the czar. There are many traits of Japanese character that we
admire. But while we are and shall continue to be in relations
of friendship with the Japanese nation, we must not forget
that in the commercial rivalry that is certain to increase, we
must hold our own or be vanqushed. By reason of her lower
standards of living and wages, Japan is able to undersell our
producers in our home markets. This she will continue to
Jo in rapidly increasing degree, after the war is over, unless
we restore the protective tariff barrier which gives the Amer
can producer an advantage counterbalancing the higher cost
of production incident to the higher wages paid in this country.
THE NEW PENSIONS . j
The United States must soon adopt a pension system for
soldiers of the European war. The suggestion is received j
with some favor that the government should assume a cer
tain liability similarly to the principle of workmen's compensa-i
tion, and pay over given amounts for death and disability.
The way Civil war pensions have been handled is generally
admitted to have been a disgrace. The majority of the people
favored liberal pension laws. It is not likely that the people
would ever have sanctioned giving pensions to a lot of the
deserters and bounty jumpers who are getting them.
Also men who served but a few weeks and never saw the
front, are in a wholly different class from those who had ac
tual war experience, and should be so treated. Another ex
travagance is in the case of women who married veterans
long after the war was over. In a great many cases this was
done because the veterans looked good for but a few years.
It was an easy way of getting money out of an easy mark gov
ernment. ' The majority of our people have not begrudged the money
that has gone to the old soldiers and they wish it was more.
They do' begrudge the pensions slipped in by personal favori
tism. It is all wrong that about 30,000 pensions have been se
cured through special acts of congress. The law is liberal,
and when special act pensions are passed, it means that men
who under the principles laid down by congress are not en
titpled to them, have been able to get them through friend
ship or pull.
In the new pension system, congress should lay down cer
tain principles that certain men are entitled to pensions foi
death or injuries or ill health due to service. These pensions
should be liberal, but the thing should end right with the lim
its established by congress, and there should be no special
.favors. , .
what we are fighting for.
some of our enemies assert
some of these ships were carry
right to carry them. It has al
walk on the public highways of
killed, it was foul murder, con
man.
are engaged in lawful pursuits.
flag can not be spat upon with
THE FARM
Our people last spring were
possible situation. They had
allies were clamoring for bigger
supply of farm help was way down, and likely to be reduced
a great deal farther by military service and war industries.
Furthermore the cold winter greatly damaged the winter
wheat. The prospects for the crops in the face of the greatest
need in our history, were the worst in years.
In this emergency the farm tractor proved a godsend. Who
can attempt a list of the tasks it has fulfilled? It has ploughed
the fields, planted crops, cut hay, harvested wheat, dragged
the crop to market and wjkat not.
It was indeed a thrilling sight this summer on the fields of
Kansas and other states, to see the multitude of these sturdy
little machines filling the place of our depleted labor supply.
In the darkness of midnight, when ever before in the history
of the word man was sleeping and the face of nature was at
rest, here were a multitude of tractors working with 'night
gangs by the light of automobile lamps. Verily the glaring
headlight, which the motorist so curses when he meets it on
the road at night, proved a friend in need, as it lighted up the
treacherous footing arid made night labor possible.
The tractor has helped pull us out of a very bad hole. Now
the time has come to see how its use can be made so general
as to get us through the special needs of the war and there
after to reduce the costs of farming. Things have come to
the point where machinery must take the place of the depleted
labor supply.
A great many young and struggling farmers will need fin
ancial help to provide themselves with these machines. Our
financial interests should see that every farmer who can make
good use of such equipment shall not be debarred from it by
lack of ability to pay for it.
THE DRAFT EVADERS
The great majority of our young men make a very credita
ble appearance toward the draft. What misgivings they feel
are carefully kept out of their faces. But here and there the
chicken heart shows up. And some men really show a good
deal of courage in their efforts to escape. The man who has
sand enough to walk up to the dentist and get his teeth pulled
out to escape the draft, really has the makings of a soldier in
him if he but knew it.
Not so the fellows who take medicine to make their heart
beat abnormally. Too bad that such can't put on petticoats
and co with the old women where they belong. Only it's
horribly unjust to the courageous female sex to classify them
so.
If a man can onlv see it. the
with any decent satisfaction to himself and his friends, is to
take what comes like a man and do the required thing with a
o-ood sDirit. The man who is
O i let If
on the exemption boards might as well say good night. He
can drop out of sight and start in a new place where no one
knows him. But he is dead as far as his home town goes.
And the trouble is that when once a man gets the habit of
cowardice fastened upon him, he will always squeal and flunk
in a tight spot. A man can die but once, and the coward dies
a thousand deaths in fearing one.
A courageous facing of difficulty and danger brings its re
wards. The fellows who have cheerfully responded to the call
are feeling pretty well about now, as they resign themselves to
the inevitable and accept the bright side of it. Meanwhile
the smart little cowards who have put something over on
Uncle Sam are still trembling for fear the long arm reaches out
for them, as it probably will.
WOMEN WORKERS IN JAPAN
Japanese women are not a bit behind their western sisters
in entering fields of work hitherto open only to men. A Jap
anese paper recently did a little investigating and figuring
and found that the women of the country are now employed
in 64 different kinds of work formerly done by men only."
Janapsee women are doing railroad work as cashiers, book
keepers and ticket sellers. Four thousand of them are em
ployed by the Imperial Railway bureau. Women are doing
extremely hard work in the Imperial arsenal. Many banks
employ them. Although the women are not paid so well as
the men, still they share in the semi-annual bonuses of the
industrial and mercantile life of the land. They are given their
working clothes and lunches in addition to their salary.
Japanese women are doing railroad work as cashiers, book
the best-paid of women workers in any of these new occupa
tions. In professional fields, Japanese women are doing well as
journalists, artists, novelists, musicians and teachers. Many
women teachers are employed in the government schools and
colleges, which is indeed a high honor.
They are interested in the government affairs, although
they take no active part as yet.
Its rather a surprise to find the women of any Oriental
country engaged in professional and industrial work as exten
sively and successfully as our own women. The western wo
man must step lively if she wishes to lead the women of the
world in attaining economic and social independence.
FEED WASTE TO HOGS ;
One of the most serious difficulties Germany has had to
face is the scarcity of fats. This shortage has impaired the
health and efficiency of the people. We are now suffering
a shortage of meat, and shall quite likely feel a special scarcity
of fats, though not to any such extent as felt in Germany.
Nevertheless, the situation serves to emphasize the fact that
the hog furnishes one of the cheapest and most practicable
mans of producing fat. Many products otherwise wasted can
be fed to swine, and with their well-known multiplying char
acteristics, hogs offer the most promising opportunity for rap
idly making up a meat shortage. Every rural resident should
keep at least a sufficient number of hogs to consume all waste
products.
TRACTOR
confronted by an almost im
just entered the war, and our
food supplies. And yet the
only way to get through life
caught working funny business
Fifty Years Ago
i 1 ,.
Taken from Enterprise of September
14, 1917.
Heroines -Mlaa Fntmlo 8. Cane and
Miss Mary Robinson, both ot Salem,
lately made the ascent of Mt Hand.
This achievement la something for,
them to boast ot as they are undoubt
edly the first white females who ever
stood on the summit ot Mount Hood.
Ordered to Report General Sherl-
dan haa boon ordered to report at Fort;
Leavenworth,
Baseball The boys, ot Tumwater
club In this city chartered the Sen
ator last Saturday and gave an excur
sion to rortlnnd. While there they
played the- Young Pioneers a return
game, winning the match by 1$ runs.
Gone East Maxwell rtamaby loft for
Salt Lake City on Thursday afternoon
on a visit to his old friends In Indian
apolis and will return to Oregon City
next spring.
OF
I FALL
SAN DINGO, Cal., Sept. IS. Collid
ing 500 feet above the ground while
flying In practice flights. First Clans
Privates Edward M. Walsh Jr.. of Oak -
laud. Cal., and Theodore 11. Lyman, ot
St. Helena, Cat., fell to their deaths to
day at the North Island army aviation
field. Both Walsh and Lyman wore
student aviators and attached to the
reserve signal corp. of the United
States army. .
According to the official announce-;
ment of the accident made by Colonel
Dade, commanding officer at North
Island, Walsh and Lyman collided In
midair while flying at a "blind an
gle." Because of the positions ot
their planes at the time of the acci
dent. It Is said that neither was able
to see the other. Officers at the Island
expressed the belief that both men
mat (hall riant h In ikd tit mm m msiiU t9 I
" ,, " , " ' "7
the coll slon, and that both were dead
,' ,
before striking the ground.
OAKLAND. Cal., Sept. 1!. Edward
M. Walsh Jr.. killed at North Inland
this morning, was a son of Edward ,
M. Walsh Sr., a local attorney. Ac-1
cording to members of the family, the
father and mother ot the boy had been j
visiting him and left San Diego thlsj
morning In an automobile for Oak
land.
WINTER PALACE IS
OF 2D BALI COfc
PETKOGRAD. Sent. 12. The Inter-
ior of the w inter palace was a remark-j tion has arisen. It was predicted thutt Primula and A. 8, Thompson to L.
able sight last night owing to the ex-unions the farmers release the crop'"- ,,ni1 MTn ' F,,,y. land In Charles
traordlnary precautions which first ,,,. . m t . i Hoffman's Trad; $10.
, , , , .President Wilson will commttndeer it, i ,
were taken early yesterday when hope i . i. alvln to (da M. Kav, all of
of a compromise was lost finally. In- un,,,:r h " conferred by tho food j lrm l r, , ,,,(lt (. Woo.llmrn Orchard
slilo the newly erected partition in the C0"tr j Company tracts; $;.",0,
grand corridor and outside M. Keren-! I The following real palate transfers
Hkys office were stationed 200 sailors, WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Depart-j wero filed In tho office of County Rev
of the id Baltic corps. During the aft-,"""11 of ll,t,t,:a "fflclalH, It was an-order Doyles on Tuesday:
nrnoon, students of the school ot ma-1noun':f'11 tody. wlil ""'I' ('"o watch j A, L nni, nuliy j.,,,,,,, ,Q n ft(
rinr.8 were brought Into the palace ason tt ,mm '"cetltiK at St. Paul. Mlnn..;K1Ia y. Jordan, land In Oregon City
well as parts of the Preobrazhensky ; September 2fi, called to protest uKalnst I juoo. '
and Lltovskl regiments, while in the'th l"'l(:e ot 20 a bushel for wheat! Idelia D. JuhtiHon to Marlon Johnson
courtyard were armed motor cars. j" 'T President Wilson, jlund In sections 8 and 9, township 2
Elsewhere In tho city there was Mtlo Xor,h Ikola growers and others H0Ulll( ,.(lll(? , t,at)(. j10
miuiury snow nut an uiruugn iue mgni i
posts or five and six infantrymen pa-
railed the streets and occupied the
courtyards. The city ho far has been .
quiet. i
All through tho night, M. Kerennky i
received resolutions from army and i
navv units imiinNlnir tn Rtmnnrt him !
iTk f ii
fliers delegates sent telegrams to the
telegraph operators' unions declaring
that the operators by refusing to work
for Kornlloff could help to crush the
revolt.
Premier Kerensky Issued an order
to the Petrograd garrison denouncing
General Kornlloff for opening tho front
to tho Germans and for sending a divi
sion of Asiatics against tho capital
while professing to defend liberty.
General Kozniln, now commanding
the Petrograd city garrison, declared, by a congressional commlttoo was
before the meeting In the Winter pal-j agreed to today by tho house rules
ace of the representatives of the dif-, committee. A resolution authorizing
forent organizations: .tho Inquiry will bo Introduced In the
"No negotiations are possible with
traitors. Our only future conversation
will be carried on through cannon,"
"Only bayonets can now decide the
conflict," was tho declaration of Vice
Premier Nekrasoff.
M. Tchernotf, minister of agricul
ture, has resigned from the cabinet.
Ninety arrests wero made in Petro
grad last night. General MIchoveff
was arrested at Moscow.
Premier Kerensky has ordered the
procurator of tho Petrograd court to
put General Kornlloff on trial undor
the historic 105 statute for "conspiring
to overthrow the existing order."
GERMANS TAKE A CHANCE
. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 8. Thirty-two
members ' of the German reichstag
left Berlin yesterday to visit tho battle
fronts, "to form some Idea of the' utat
eglo situation of tho fighting," accord
ing to the Weser Zeltung.
G
WASHINGTON, Sept. It. A typo-
graphical error lu trnnaerltdnK a state-
immt tor the press today from an offi
cial report to the navy department
nnulo It appear that six Gurmnn sub
tnnrlnea probably had been sunk off
th French coast when they attacked a
fleet ot merchantmen, Including at
leant one American vessel. The facts
are, no far ns Is known tonight, that
one submarine probably wit den troy ml
and two of the a teamen went down,
A corrected statement was Issued by
Secretary Pnnlela.
The department has only a meager
account of the fight and additional de
tails have been asked for by cable.
The report came from the American
tanker Westwego, through Paris, the
vessel apparently having reached a
French port after the fight. The names
ami nationality of tho two ships lost
were not given,
The Westwego, an armed vessel, was
en route to Europe and from the fact
that she wns ('mining In company with
other merchant craft, nnvy officers as
sumed that the fleet was under con
voy of naval vessels, probably of Amer
ican destroyers.
The tanker reported September 8
the fight having occurred September
5. The brief statement received from
Paris mild that six submarines had
made a massed attack on tho merchant
fitilla; that two of the ateamera wore
sunk and that one of the submarines
probably was lost
In preparing for the press In the
k,..-.. ,i.,. ,k. .. ,,
! partmcllt a ttemPnt of the contents
L, the d,Mpiach) u WM wrltlen tut
of tfte (U iUDmBrlnci proBably
had been lost Later, on checking the
messages and statement Issued to the
press It was found that the word was
'one" In the dispatch.
The fact that the submarines at
tacked the merchant fleet In such force
led to the conclusion that the German
ommandor erroneously thought he had
to deal with troop transports or with
army supply ships.
The mistake was not discovered un-
', . ,v . , . .
I til several hours after the country had
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wholesale sinking of German U-boats.
WHEAT; GOVERNMENT
IS 10
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Sept. 11.
j Fanners throughout the northwest ore
(holding their wheat In the hope thatj
the government will reopen tho price
tion and In consvuunnco tho coun-
aces a flour famine. Officials of
the food administration hero and mill-'
er today agreed that a serious altua -
i'ii.m;
l,,n nr H1,l to oe book-
t0 hvo tl pric revlowod aiifl tho
1 "HI
witnurawai or oummiHtrntion n - cula -
i.i i ......
Hons designed to prevent hoardlriK of i
grain.
The licensing system of grain nlova -
tors prescribed by tho food ndminls -
.iruiion went into erroct yesterday,
HOUSE DECIDES 10
INVESTIGATE EAST
ST.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10,-Investl-gatlon
of the East St. Louis ruco riots
house by Chairman Pou tomorrow.
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Sept. 10. "I
will not resign. The charges against
me are flimsy and tho work of dlrtv
f nollHclii
' , ...7 ... A . TV, 1V1U1I-
man today, In discussing his Indict
ment with his socretary, Maurice A.
Ahearn, in connection "with tho East
St. Louis race riots. Names of the
37 others Indicted Saturday -will not
be announced until after arrests.
VANCOUVER LICENSE8 ISSUED
VANCOUVER, Wash., Sopt. 12.
Marrlage licenses wero Issuod here to
day to William II. Keledonk, ago 30,
and Mae Adams, age 30, of Estacada,
Oregon; Robert L. Allison, ago 44, of
Oregon City, Oregon, nnd LilHnn Mc
Connell, ago 35, of Shorwood, Oregon,
and Frank E.Johnston, legal, of. Glad
stone, Oregon, and E. Louise Gay, le
gal, of Camas, Washington.
After a Dry Spell
. 4 4 ''
As niy head rests cm Uih pillow
Semi darkness fills juy room,
And the wind blown sort and mellow
Ilurmoulalug with the gloom,
And a nearby nro light's glitter
Fastens shadows on (he wall,
While the rain drops geiilly patter
On the slilnglo ns they fall.
This l mtlsle full of sweetness,
Though monotonous the sound;
May It reach lis full completeness,
Soaking deep the thirsty ground.
'Til the meadows that are yellow
Don a coat ot living green, and 'til
ev'ry man's umbrella
Spread above him may be seen.
May It last till ev'ry fire
In the forests Is put out;
Mny It grant us our desire
Putting all the smoke to rout.
May It gently drop and patter
On the dusty street and lawn,
For without the muddy spatter
It don't seem tike OltEtlON.
Geo. Frey.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
The following real estate transtera
were filed In the office ot County Re
corder rtoylo on Thursday:
Mary B. Nelschl to J. S. Mann, lot 6
of block 4, Bright wood; 1 10.
J. Lee Kckerson and Theresa H. Eck
erson to Frank E. and Delta 8. Dodge,
6.25 acres ot land In sections 28, 29, 83
and 33, township S south; $10.
Louis Nelschl to J. S, Mann IV, acres
of land In section 83, township 1 south
of range 7 east; $10.
Mary Nelschl to J. 8. Mann, lot t of
block 4. lirlghtwood; 10.
John M. Drown and Mayma C.
Drown to Jacob and Christina Iloehn,
all ot lot SO, Solfwood Gardens; 110.
Phillip and Ksmllno Strolb to Joha
T. Townley, all of lota !, 8, block S,
Strelb'i First Addition to Mllwaukle;
$1350.
The following real eslat trans
fers were filed In the office of Coun
ty Recorder .Doyle Saturday:
Mary Niesch to J. S. Mann, lot 8 of
block 4, Bright wood; $10.
John M. Drown and Muyiiio 0, J.
coly and Christina lloclm, all of lot
30. Hell wood Gardens: $10.
Philip and Karoline fllrelb to John
T. Townley. lots 3. 3. block 3. Strellt'a
Fin I Addition to Mllwaukle: $13.10.
John lltlg to Elizabeth 8. Dm k, land
In Clackuma county; tl.
Elizabeth 8. Duck and Shirley Duck
to Hoy and Grace E, Cox, lund In
t'ltickuitia county; $Hf0,
J. A. C.lKer and Dertha Olper W
E. K. Drttdtl lot 1j, fi, 17, Cunby
Garden; $10,
.J. J. and Knthryn Kadderly to Clara
It. Townsend and Glenn Townsend,
land In section 9, township 3 smith,
rtumo 7 ent; $l,
Edward I,, and lthmlu A. Heeil to
W. It. Sltmer. 7 acres of sect Ion H.
twt,!ilp 4 south, range 4 east; $1.
Atii o Carpenter Kollt to J. 8. and
A- 1:- ,,!, ' ,iin,l 1,1 Clackamas conn.
iy; $n.
.!eore A. Urudle to Charles and
Helena I., I'rfcr, land in sectlmi 21).
j township 3 no.ith. range 1 cast; $1,
Pimbel J
and Sholton Ilechtel to
Anna M. Clark, 2 acres ot land in
yJW,Hi.r ) 1,...,.. n .1 . -
mill liit. Ltin nun ii a atniiii rantni v
: .,,..,
Akerson -Gooch & Company Inc., to
J' M' Vl 1Iil'tMI- 9 and 10 of block
1 3' Wllll)w Purk; $!().
Anna Mary.and William P, White, to
A. P. und Maria Christina Anderson,
10 arces of land In section 22, township
3 south, range 1 east; 10,
Albla Cnrr Dmwn und Lucy Eliza
beth Drown to Milton L. and Mary B.
Strnun, lots 5, C, 7, block 5, Pleasant
Place Addition; $700.
Oregon City to Frank E, Andrews,
nil of lot 3, 4, 5, block 159, Oregon
City; $750.
Tho following real estate transfers
were filed In tho office of County Re
corder Iloyles Wednesday:
Archie R. Dickson to tho trustees of
school district No. 1-8, et al, all of lots
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, block 9, Zobrlst addi
tion to Estacada; $800.
J. C. and Alice AlnBworth to tho
United States National bank lot 7 of
Wichita; $10,.
Elizabeth', Hunt to Mrs, II. W.
Greaves, land in Clackamas county; $1.
Alox C. Hlnkle to Nellie 8. Hinkle,
land In Alder Crest acres; $1. '
Phillip N. and Charlotte Studer to
R. E. nnd Laura A. Coon, land In Clack
amas county; $10.
C. A. and Veroca Ratlor to C. C. Ilu
Ilfson, 9 acres of Goorge Abornothy D.
L. C and also 11 acres of Goorge Ab
ornothy D. L. C.j $10.
1 QUEEN OF BULGARIA DEAD
SOFIA, Bulgaria, .Sept. 12. Quoen
Eloanoro of Bulgaria died hero this
aftornoon, '
She had boon 111 some time, and re
cently King Ferdinand and Crown
Prince Boris and Prince Cyril wero
summoned to her bedside. .
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