Eack week the Eatefprlsa carries a full nsuim of. the. S n8t impartaat b.a9peoiBgs ? throughout the state Jtn4 &atia. I rtk your suV scrij CO FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. 26 OREGON CEEY. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 1 , 1921. at . ESTABLISHED 1866 To buy and soil the usu- al or unusual needs of 3- farming people requires such a medium as the col- -$ umns of the Enterprise. Try S a classified ad. 3 OREGON SIS FEW BIDS ON WILLAMETTE BRIDGE HADE CONTRACTORS DO NOT WANT MORE WORK. Oregon City Project Referred Back to Engineer for Minor Changes PORTLAND, Or., .June 2S. Al though a rather big project of its kinil, there was very little bidding on the proposed bridge across the Willamette river at Oregon City. A. Guthrie & Jo., bidding $213,602.50, was low bid der. While the bid was considered satisfactory, it was referred to the bridge engineer for some minor ad iustir.ents In making this explana tion to the crowd of contractors in the room, R. A .Booth chairman, took oc sacion to compliment the Clackamas county court for the fine spirit dis played in the negotiations and public ly thanked Judge Cross and his asso ciates Agreement Is Reached. Negotations between the commis sion and the county have covered a long period and at the f.rst of the year the situation was about as bad a? it could be, but it has ail been worked out to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. The proposed new structure will replace the present suspension bridge, which Vas erected some 30 years ago at a cost of $25. 000. The present bridge was net built to- withstand the demands of modern traffic . $8,000,000 Under Contract. There is a growing disposition on the part of the members of the state highway commission to apply thr brakes on th new work for a few months. About $8,000,000 of work is now under contract. The reasons for the feeling among the commissioners can be summarized thus: Bids opened yesterday disclosed an inclination to( climb fthe inference being- that the contractors have all the work they need and are bidding higher than if their bidding were prompted by necessity Much Money InVolved. PORTLAND, Or., June 28 The state highway commission held a $6,000,000 session here today. It will sell bonds valued at $1,500, 000; let contracts for bridges, road grading and regular hard-surface pav ing lhat will total about $1,500,000, and it is expected that it will meet the counties that recently voted highway bonds of more than $3,00,00o on a fifty-fifty basis . Oregon City Job Big:. The most important bridge contract to be awarded is that for buiding a steel and concrete structure across the Willamette river at Oregon City The successful contractor will have to get his substructure work done with out interferiing with traffic until Jan uary 1, 1922, at which time the bridge will be closed and a ferry will have to be used until the work is completed. It is thought it will take at least eighteen month3 to do this work, per- naps longer. Another important part of the bridge contracts that will be bid on will be a series on the Mount Hood loop, work on which is now goins on.. This work will- consist of twelve culverts and three viaducts. OF LOCAL RED CROSS: SCOPE IS EXTENSIVE i Bonuses Are Applied for from 18 States by Oregon City Residents. .Appications for soldiers' bonuses in every state which offers them have been made for ex-service men by the local branch of the Red Cross. An application for a bonus under the Michigan state law was filled out today by Miss C. B. Pratt, heme ser vice secretary here, for a man work ing in one of the Oregon City mills. Eighteen states, according to Mis3 Pratt, are offering bonuses and some one from this city has been entitled to apply under all of them. Eighteen Offer Help Under most of the laws, residence after the period of service is not tak en into consideration, an(j many men are taking advantage of state aid from the districts in which they en listed. The eighteen states offering ex-service men either cash bonuses, loans or a choice of the two in some form are Oregon, Michigan, South Da kota, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Mas sachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin and Washington. Since the war, according to Miss Pratt, the work of the Red cross has been confined mainly to aiding of the soldiers to return to an even footing. Special care is being taken of those incapacitated, of families-of men de tained in the service and those in the hospitals. Miss Pratt's work covers the entire county and she has num erous cases on record requiring the constant attention of the Red Cross. A number of Clackamas county men who contracted tuberculosis twbile in the service are being cared for ant' some few cases of mental unbalance due to being gassed are being treated from here in the hospitals operated by the federal government in the state of Washington. Training Is Offered The federal vocational training has been extended to a number of Clack amas men through the efforts of t Red Cross which has also taken caie of a number of pressing cases which were not encompassed by the govern mental provisions. Work of this nature, says Miss Pratt still offers a tremendous field. The association has been hampered by lack of adequate funds with which to conduct its activities and has con fined most of its efforts to the gath ering together of the loose thread of the social fabric, rent by the world war, and weaving them together into the life and progress o,f the country today. . The Spirit of Non-Performance A' veteran high school principal , was speaking re cently of the great numbers of young men of his ac quaintance who had been willing to work long hours so as to get a start in life. But since the war, he said, people seem to be banded together to have an easy time and to accomplish as little for themselves as possible for the largest pay. There is a story going the rounds of a man who was employed on war work during the period of inflation and extravagance, and who was asked how he liked his job. He said he didn't like it. "Don't you get good, pay?" they asked him. "O, yes," he said, "I get very large pay." "But perhaps you have to work too hard," they asked. "O, no," he said, "I don't have to work more than half the time." "Well, what is the matter then," they inquired of him, "if you get high pay and only have to work half the time?" "Well, you see," he said, "I don't like to be watched so close. There's a fellow there that follows me around all the time watching me, and I don't like to be watched that way. Later he pointed out a mysterious and un communicative individual who at that moment was hanging around near by. "That man?" they replied. "Why that fellow is your helper. He has to follow you round so as to help you when you need it." This story, like the reported death of Mark Twain, might be greatly exaggerated" yet it does give some idea of conditions as they existed during the war period among many people. There was the sprit of doing as little as you can for the highest possible pay. It pro duced costly conditions of production that lifted prices up to the highest level ever known, and which made great numbers of people unable to buy. This inability' to buy commodities produced on this abnormal level, cut down consumption, and Jed to the unemployment recently existing. This is a working world, and unless most people are willing to take hold and "do with their might what their hands find to do" conditions will be abnormal and the industrial machine will run irregularly. Somebody Had to Winl fjf FUNDS HOLDS Bill and W. A. Settle Scores on July 17th Bill Harris and W. A. Praetor may be Damon and Pythias in the county court but they're arch enemies on the baseball diamond. Since the two county commissioners have gone in for the great American national pastime, Judge Cross says that he can't get any work out of them at all. They've both got a baseball team. Bill's bunch from Sandy passed out a 11 to 5 defeat to W. A's. Beaver UP AUDIT OF SCHOOL BOOKS: LAW INUTILE County Court Won't Shoulder Expense Imposed by New Statute. MULINO NAN MISSING; IS FOUND DEAD J. D. WILKERSON TAKES HIS OWN LIFE According to law the books of the I clerk of each school distrirt: in Ore- I creeK nine last feunaay. And they're gon must be audited. They must all primed for a return game July 11 at Carus. After the game Sunday, W. A wanted to play again because he thought that the defeat was an acci dent, and Bill wanted to play again be audited once a year. A statute en acted at the last session of the leg islature makes this provision. But because accountaints won't ;work overtime for nothing the books will not be audited. In all its wis- Suicide Follows-Depression; Disappears- Friday Leaving Note to show that his victory was really dom the legislature forgot to provide luicnuuiiiu. some method for payment for the at. any rate, wooa win meet norse-1 Work- hide on the 17th. MANY APPLY FOR JOBS UNDER NEW BONUS LAW. SALEM, Or., June 28. More than 50 applications have been received by J the secretary of state and other offi cials for positions as attorneys and ap praisers in the various counties of Or egon under the so-called soldiers The matter came up in Clackamas county and in accordance with the law, Superintendent Brenton Yedder ordered all school clerks to turn in their accounts to the boundary board consisting1 of the county court and the school superintendent. The books were to be in. according to the lav, by the first Monday of July. The matter was taken up in the county court and having no funds av ailable for this work, the court re fused to pay for the audit There are over 130 districts in the county and a separate audit would have been re quired for each one. This would hnmiR TTipajsiire. -nassed at the. last, rpk sion of the legislature and made opera- brinS the costs of the audit to several tive 'through a constitutional amend ment approved by the voters at the special election June 7. The bonus law provides that these thousand dollars. What can be done about it has not been decided Superintendent Ved der has notified all school clerks that I ; 1 1 i x. j. . attorneys shall receive not to exceed " uecewaiy to sena m law uuums. liie statute assumes ACTION TAKEN BY COURT TO RID COUNTY OF PEST NEW GYMNASIUM WILL BE BUILT WITH LOCAL MATERIAL AND LABOR ON LABOR ENDORSED Announcing as their pol?cy the em ployment of none but American citi zens in their plant, representatives of the crown-Willamette Pulp and Pa per company appeared at the Amer ican Legion meeting Wednesday night endorsing the resolution which Wil lamette Falls post will present to the state convention June 1-2. The resolution asks the state to es tablish a preference for American ci tizens and ex-service mee nover aliens when employing- labor on state work, especially the highways. The res olution was approved last night by th local post. The Crown-Willamette mills repres entatlve stated that the company, which has 1200 men upon its payroll is at present employing only Amer. can citizens, and that it intended to continue this policy. Phil Hammond was " appointed a committee of one to meet with the county court and arrange for pay ments of the county fund for the re lief of indigent soldiers. A resolution to be presented to the state convention, asking that the state commander be sent on an in spection, tour of the Oregon fcosts once every year, was adopted. Clos er unity and cooperation among the the different branchees of the legion is the purpose of this, memorial. Refreshments were served after thej meeting by the members of the Wom-j en's auxiliary of the legion. Hord-Brooks Company Sub-Let Most of Big Job. to Work on the new school gymnasium here, the contract for which has been let to the Hord-Erooksi Company of Portland, will be done largely by local contract, acording to the announce ment of R. W. Jones, representative of the company who was here Tues day. Carpenters and other laborers will be employed locally and different parts of the job wil be done by con tract, the work going to local firms wherever possible. The contract for the construction of the building amounts to $29,957. The company, according to Mr. Jones, is anxious to receive bids en the work of evcavating, the painting and plas tering. Material, as far as possible, will be purchased locally. The lumber for the building will come from the Wil lamette Lumber company. It is pos sible that the briolr lietor? will lin bought from the Wm. Knopp company ii it comes up to tne required specifi cations. The contract for the plumbing and heating, aggregating $6500. is already in the hands of Pope & Company, .a local firm The electrical contracts have not beeil let. They were held up in order to give the local concerns a chance to bid on the work. Control of the Canada Thistle in Clackamas county is to be accomplish ed b5 concentrated action under the offical jurisdiction of the county court. The court Thursday issued an or der declaring Clackamas county a weed-control district, appointing Sher iff Wilson weed inspector. This action was taken at the re quest of the Farm Bureau, which has been receiving complaint from far mers, who say that their crops are endangered by persons who have been allowing the weed to spread on -their land. The court is invested with the right to declare a weed-control district and force the destruction of all obnoxi ous weeds. Upon notice from the weed inspec tor the farmers are expected to de stroy such weeds upon their premi ses. The Canadian thistle pest is one which numerous counties in Oregon, especially on the coast, have to con tend with. Once started, the weed is difficult to eradicate snd is prac tically ruinous to pasture land. The only way in which it can be controlled Is by united action througout a dis trict, preventing its spread into pas tures and plots where it has already been eradicated. The court two years ago declared the county a weed-control district and the county agent was appointed weed inspector. Pue to the fact that the organiation was inneficient, no strides were made in the eradication of the pest. On this account there was consid erable .hesitancy on the part of the county court to re-establish the dis trict here, but they were prevailed up on by petitton from the Farm Bureau and the aimers which they represent. IS FORMALLY .DEDICATED AT MEETING OF WIRES Last Gathering of Season Held At New Camp Ground Near Canemah $10 foc examining each abstract sub mitted by ex-service men making ap plication for loans under the act. The fees for this work shall be paid by the applicants. It was estimated that the aggregate fees for examining these abstracts will exceed $200,000. in the state , The appraisers, under the act, shrll establish the value of all property offered as collateral by persons seek ing loans. The compensation for this work will be paid out of an appropria tion of $30,000- authorized by the legis lative act making the bonus possible Both the appraisers and the attor neys will be named by the soldiers' aid commission, which is composed of Governor Olcott, Sam A. Kozer, secre tary of state; George A. White, adjutant-general, and -two ex-service men named by the executive. the postion of a law which prohibits something, but which provides no pen alty. Audits of the books of first class districts, under which classification Oregon City comes, are made by the districts themselves. The district includes the auditing expense in its budget, and will not be materially affected by a new law or the lack of Its enforcement. Marke iiig Talked -By Farm Leaders; Fruit to Be Studied J D- Wilkerson of Mulino, a former resident of Canby, and mail carrier for a number of years, was found dead Tuesday' afternoon near his home, having committed suicide by cutting an artery with a pen knife. Searching parties had made every effort to locate Mr. Wilkerson sineo his disappearance from the home of his daughter ,Mrs. Schataman, resid ing near Mulino, an done of the neigh bors by the name of Causon, found the man about 4 o'clock Mr. wilkerson was employed for a short time at Wilhoit, where im provements were being made, and a few days later returned to the home his daughter, seemingly much de pressed. On Friday he disappeared, leaving behind his favorite pipe, watch and coat, and also a note, telling his relatives that he would never see them again; that he was going away. It was feared that he drowned himself in the Molalla river, and search had been made in that vicinity, and con tinued until this afternoon when the remains were found in a wooded sec tion Coroner O. A. Pace of this city, was called to the scene of the suicide, but only an inquiry was made as it was a plain case of suicide Deceased was about 63 years of age and is survived by his wife, a daugh ter, Mrs. Schatzman, living near Mu lino ,two sons,' Ray and Charles, whose whereabouts are unknown; a stepson, Eugene Falkner, of Canby, and a" brother, Sam Wilkerson, of Canby,- and other relatives' in Claclia-. mas county. A daughter, Mrs. Wan nell, resides in Minnesota. The Oregon City Automobile park at Canemah was tormally dedicated last night when th-a -Live Wire of the Commercial club met there for their last luncheon of the present season until next September. The i.rk is one of the projects which the Live wires "put over" dur ing the year. They secured the lease of the land, collected the money to make the improvements, and turned the entire affair over to the city as a pubic benefit. More than eighly persons. Live Wires, their friends and ladies, were PURCHASE OF PLAYGROUND IS EXPECTED A meeting of the leaders of the mar ket project of the farm bureau of Clackamas county was held at the of fice of County AJgent W. A. Holt on Tuesday afternoon, when the various market problems confronting the members were given consideration. E. B. Fitts of the dairy department of the O. A. C. will spend the remain der of the week in Clackamas county noiaing meetings in the various MILLIONS ARE SPENT OF '. NATION'S HIGHWAYS Reports to the Asphalt association. New York, show the extent to which the highway construction program of the nation is getting under way at this early stage of the season. During the week ending April 23, 1921, a total of 187 contracts for new roads and streets were awarded .involving an expenditure of $17,857,304. Dur ing the week ending April 16, a total Recommendation of the purchase of various neighborhoods, 'his topic at the a tract of land near the high school mooting .nainin, tr. looji, tor a municipal playground is expect- care or xry cattle, ed to grow out of a conference held E c Bro of carus, horticultural Monday between committees of the project leader of the farm bureau, and school board and council appointed county Agent Holt were appointed a to investigate the project committee to make a survey of the The nlan under consideration Is the fruit indnst.rv hwA ati- ntwiirn -arm present at the dinner, served by the I joint purchase by the city and school make a systematized study of the acre- J of 132 co111-"3 were let, amounting Commercial club isteward Monday eve- board of the E. A. Hugh block and I age and crop possibilities of the county I i-. . . , I.. 1 - e j 1 . .. I . . . . 1 - 1 1 1 I . . . . . . . . . 1 1 ( ' I I ' juiis- Mciuuera ui uib organization j part oi ui aujoimog uarauuizer Diucn, i wain tne purpose oi placing the indus- spoke upon the progress made by the which is one bock east of the high try upon a footing where co-operative Wires during the past year, citing as school, extending from Twelfth marketing' is possible. characteristic accomplishments the through Eleventh street which is un- Tuesday evenine he will meet the park itself, the securing of an unin- improved into the middle of the block farmers of the Stafford neighborhood. tempted paved road between the I between Tenth and Eleventh. The L Wednesday afternoon he will attend. West IJnn bridge and the railroad I property would then be improved and f the session of Pomona grange at Ma- on the Pacific highway, the furthering made a free public playground, es-1 pie Lane. Wednesday evening the of the paving program in Oregon City j pecially designed to meet the needs and other similar projects. The Wires I of the younger generation both dur- have been particularly interested in I ing the school year and the -vacation good roads. I period A motion was passed by the Wires CITIZENSHIP !N U.S. IS GRANTED ELEVEN City Asked for $3000 The matter was brought before the council at its special session June 23 by Dr. L. A. Morris, a com mittee from the Live Wiies, the city was asked to appropriate $3000 for the purchase of half the Hugh block. jected strongly to the proposed route , . , . . . . , , asked to buy the remainder of the de- asking the county court, city council I and water board to appropriate funds j for the upkeep of the park, supple menting the contributions made d- private citizens. J. W. Exon of Monitor, spoke on the Monitor-Barlow improvement. He ob- meeting will be at Clarkes in the union hall. Thursday the afternoon meeting will be held at 2 o'clock at the Deep Creek school fouse. The night will be held at Sandy. Friday afternoon the meeting will be at Colton with the evening ses sion at Wilsonville Saturday afternoon the meeting will be at Logan and in the evening at Redland. May Hardware Nine Wins from Boring BORING, Or., June 2S. ITnder Man ager B. Norton, the May Hardware nine walked away from Boring Sund xy 16 to 4. Norton pitched a great game, striking out fourteen batters. On July 2, 3 and 4, May nine wiil play at Crawford, Wash. Eleven residents of Clackamas county were admitted by he circuit court to citizenship Monday. Peti tions for naturalization were heard, seventeen making) applications for ad mission. These admitted to citizenship are: James Dawson, a native of England, Elizabeth Popp, Switzerland, Carl Emil Larson, England, Henry Watts, England, John Anderson, Sweden, John Wicklund, Sweden, William Hen nings. Sweden. Andrew Bnchel, Eng land, James Robinson, England, and Carl Moenhe, England. Dawson, Elisabetha Popp, Larson and Watts are from Oregon Ciy. An derson and "wickund live in Colton, Hennings and Buchel reside in Mil waukie, Rabinson lives in Willamette and Moehnke in Hoff. Two of the applicants for citizenship were unable to appear. The admis sion of one was held up pending the investigation of an army record.. The remaining three were ordered contin ued due to inability to pass the ex aminations. for the Estacada connection, bringing it into Market Road No. Two. Everett Huhman, commercial man ager if the Pacific Telephone - ami Telegraph company, spoke at the meeting and authorized the local rep resentatives of the company to make a donation to the park fund. Case Filed to Test Sterilization Law sired property for the sum of $4800. It is planned to place the adminis tration of the play grounds in the hands of the school board. Councilman P. Albright, Richard Petzold, Frank Cross and O. D. Eby were appointed by Mayor Shannon to report at the next regulaar meeting of the council. The committee from the school board was composed of J. A. Rcake ana itoy rr. oox. Meeting to Be Today Another joint meeting is to be held Rosemont Plans Big , Fourth Celebration Road and street construction is leading all other building industries. For the two weeks- mentioned, road and street contracts were let to th amount of $32,370,032, water supply contracts to the extent of $4,825,465, sewerage and sanitary contracts to the extent of $8,264,839 and bridge contracts to the amount of $2,381,487. It will be seen from these figures that the amount of money being spent for highway work is more than double the amount being spent on all the other public improvements combined. It is nearly eight times the value of water supply work, nearly four times the value of the sewerage work and nearly sixteen times that of the bridge work. Eleven Southern state during the week ending April 16 let highway contracts alone amounting to $2,977, 982. - SAL.EM. Or June 28. A test case, I by the committee today to determine to determine the power of the state board of eugenics and the scope of the sterilization act, is contemplated in an action filed here today on be half of Jacob Cline, an inmate of the state penitentiary, by Tom Garand, Portand attorney. "This law, if carried out. reads a section of the demurrer filed in the circuit court, "is an attempt at pater nalism on the part of the government. that has never been attempted by the soviet or socialistic systems, In their wildest momentsi." STROMBOLI ERUPTS. ROME, June 28. The volcano of Stromboli, situated on the island of the same name, off the northern coast of Sicily,' has burst into activity. The eruption began with a violent explo sion, which was heard far from the Island, and the people are abandoning their homes and fleeing to Sicily. the tentative plans for the improve ment, and act on its preliminary ap proval or rejection. Reports of the findings of the joint committee will be presented to the board and the council. The tract which :s being considered for the playground. Is accordng to Dr. Morris, the only available central ly located piece of property on the hill which is large enough and suit able for the purpose intended. It measured 270 by 464 feet. Yesterday the committees visited the lots and looked over the entire field subse quent to ther presentation of their combined report. DIVORCE SUIT FILED. v A divorce complaint was filed today against Delia L Browning by Alec C. Browning. Incompatibility Is al leged. A Fourth of July celebration will be held by the Rosemont Community club at the William Robinson farm. Among the features will be jitney dancing, sports of various kinds ami fire works in the evening All are requested to bring lunch baskets and to bring cups for the cof fee that is to be served tn the even ing. Arrangements are in the hands of the committee appointed to take charge of the big event. A hard times party was given at the Robinson barn last Saturday ev eneninfe: was a big success. The affair was planned to be held at the Solono's farm, but owing to the condi tion of the roads due to rain, it was impossible to give the affair at that place. Prizes were awarded to Mr. Fisher, Mr. Solomo, Mr. Hage and .others. Mr Solomo and his "needy" .children drew many nickels and pennies and Mrs. Solomo's artificial roses donated to the cause, brought a good price. The committee in charge of the event are appreciative of what was do nated to raise funds for the treasury of the organization. Refreshments consisting of lemon ade, coffee, and doughnuts, strawber ries were served with whipped cream I and cake. REALTORS PLANNING TO BOOST ENTIRE COUNTY Advertise all of Clackamas county.1 This was the policy adopted by the Realty board at their regular meeting Monday night when final plans were laid for the sending of a represen tative east to accompany the home seekers' special back to Oregon. Gordon S. Taylor has been selected to make the trip. He will leave here July 6, coming back on the train made up of 300 easterners looking for farm ing locations in the west, which leaves Omaha July 19. A pamphlet on Clackamas county is to be Issued, dealing with the advan tages and resources of the entire coun ty. In outlining their policy, the realtors decided to conduct their ad vertising along broad lines, embracing and benefiting the entire county. The expense pf sending the representative to Omaha will be born by the realtors, but the expense of publishing he general pamphlet will fall upon the communities or the county in proportion to the benefit which will attain from it. The cost. which is to be slight, will be met by subscription.