Page4 OREGON CITY. ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921. OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE Published Every Friday. E. E. BRODJC, Editor and Publisher. Entered at Oregon City. Oregon, Post office as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One year $1.50 81x Months .75 Trial Subscription, Two Months .25 SuBscrihers will find the date of ex piration stamped on their papers fal lowing their name. If last payment Is not credited, kindly notify us, and the zaatter will receive ear attention Advertising Rates on application. BUSINESS Conditions Improve as VOLUME Of Sales Over Entire Nation INCREASES By Robert E. Smith- president of the Lumbermen's Trust Company Bank, Portland, Ore. Business developments continue on the whole to be rather encouraging. Despite lower prices, some merchan dising institutions report increased sales compared with a year ago. For example, the October sales of F. W. Woolworth & Company were $14,406, 922, compared with $13,242,416 for the corresponding month of 1920. For the first ten months of 1921 their sales were $110,355,604, compared with $106,959,383 for the correspondng per ior Of 1920. Authorities on lumber ex pect that the new' government loans to farmers and stock growers will help help the lumber market through the Middle West, and this will benefit Ore gon and "Washington manufacturers. LUMBERMEN OPTIMISTIC There- is quite an optimistic feeling among lumbermen, most of whom pre dict lively business by the turn of the year. The wheat situation is not so good. According to the bulletin of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, the yield of wheat in Euro pean countries during the present crop ' season is larger than in 1920. Pros pects are that the world supplies will be sufficient to meet ordinary require- ments. This has been a potent factor in driving down the price of wheat be low $1 a bushel in domestic markets, or lees than half the price it command - ed last year at this time. Heavy marketing is another depress ing factor. Early recovery in the wheat trade is not looked for unless favorable factors rise which cannot be discerned. Livestock, salmon and fruit, other important Pacific North west products, are in fairly satisfac tory condition. New buying of steel is relatively light, and production is slightly above 40 per cent of capacity. Better feeling exists asi to the outlook for rail purchases, and tin plates are maintaining a steady level. Production of pig iron during October was the largest of any month since March, with a gain of 43 per cent over the low figure of July. COTTON IS HIT Cotton ginned prior to November 1 amounted to 6,646,136 bales, which is over 100,000 bales more than the gov ernment estimate. Publication of this report caused a sharp set-back in the cotton market. It in is the money mar ket that things are booming. The Fed eral Reserve system's ratio contnues to gain, and is now 71.40 per cent com pared with 43.6 per cent a year ago. This is reflected in lower interest rates on all kinds of loans. For example, bankers' acceptances of a. quality that sold early this year on a 6 and even 6 per cent basis are now currently quoted at 4 per cent. All the various issues of United States treasury certificates are selling at a premium; the 5 per cent certifi cates maturing June 15, 1924, being quoted at 102. Liberty bonds continue to advance. The combined effect of lower money rates and the continued diversion of capital from the usual channels of business as a result of high wages and excessive taxes has accounted for much of the plethora of money in banks. The present market for high grade bonds is the broadest, best or ganized and' strongest that has de veloped since the world war began. The sharp rise in Liberty bonds has contributed to this effect, for there are more United States government bonds in the hands of investors today than bonds of any other description. Each weeK sees an advance in bond prices, and experienced investors have been making large purchases to take as much advantage as possible 6f the rise. Six months ago, bonds of the.Canad ian provinces could be purchased to yield 7 per cent and even more; to day, they sell readily on a 5 per cent basis. Telephone Issue Oversubscribed J. P. Morgan & company and asso ciates last week announced an offer ing of $50,000,000 New York Telephone Refunding Mortgage 20-year 6 per cent gold bonds. The bonds were offered to investors at 97 and accrued inter est to yield over 6.25 per cent. Sever al Portland bond dealers participated in tne syndicate, which was an over whelming success, the subscription books having been closed half an hour after the offering was made. More than 68,000 individual subscriptions for the bonds were received by J. P. Mor gan & Company and the total amount of subscriptions was $488,000,000. The overwhelming success of this offering reveals something of the activity of the bond market and the large The Spirit of Co-operation The world's troubles are largely due to lack of co operation. This is what stirs up the industrial world with a witch's broth of class hostility. And the most conspi cious instance of all is in the relations existing between nations. Great progress in co-operative spirit has been made during the past 25 years in the business field. At the earlier period business men were hostile toward their rivals and would not act unitedly with them. They have now found it pays to get together, and thousands of cities and towns are making splendid progress as the re sult of this better unity. The same spirit should be promoted in the interna tional field. The masses of the people have no hostility to other nations. They wish them well, wish to live peaceably with them. But for some reason, the states men and diplomats of these countries have not been able to adjust international relations on a peace basis, so that the world has been full of wars and threats of wars. The probable success of the Washington confer ence in reaching a better adjustment, indicates that the statesmen of these countries are feeling the demand of their constituents for a spirit of co-operation and concil iation. The peoples do not want to fight, and they do not want their statesmen to drag them into needless wars. Many of these hostilities have resulted from the ef forts of the political leaders to secure commercial ad vantages for their respective populations. But the mass of the people have learned that it does not pay to fight wars to get trade. Better make the best deaL you can across the council table, just as you do in private busi ness, instead of getting out with great armies and navies to gain these advantages by force. I COPYRIGHTED Alas! KRASSIG & HERNS DENTISTS Specialize in Extraction of Teeth Crown and Bridge Work "Plates That Fit" 10-11-12 Andresen Bldg. Oregon City, Ore. amounts of capital waiting for invest ment. The New York Telephone Com pany has an unsurpassed position in the Bell system. It is the only com prehensive system! throughout the state of New York, including New York City and the Northern part of New Jersey. With its subsidiaries anjl their connecting companies, its sup plies local and long distance telephone service to every city, village and rural community in the most densely popu lated section of the United States. The Company's assets amount to more more than $408,000,000 and its total bonded debt is about $142,000,000. It is estimated that the net earnings of the company for 1921 will be $214,000, 000. Although the bonds were brought out at 97, they are now rated at 98.50. State Sells More Paving Bonds The State Highway commission is i inviting bids for $560,000 Oregon high way bonds to be received December 15. The bonds are offered either with serial maturities of $14,000 each six months from April 1, 1927 to Oct. 1, 1946 and bearing 5 per cent interest, or as 6 per cent bonds maturing as a whole ipril 1, 1926. After these bonds have been disposed of, the state debt will be $31',540,300, all for road con- establishment of international equil brium will automatically obviate the necessity for legislative defense, and once more restore trade to a healthy competitive standing. "The labor reduction," said Willard Hawley, in discussing the figures worked out by his committee," is not upon a lower basis than is compatible with the present tendencies. As a matter of fact, common labor is to day demanding but $3 generally, which is approximately the same standard on which our readjustment was based, though we arrived at our conclusion from a consideration of the internal condition of the paper in dustry rather than the outside de mand. Labor has been the last thing to reduce reduced because the paper mills had to keep pace in the rapidly normalizing status of affairs and meet competition upon a lower basis of cost." COMPETITION KEEN Paper, it is pointed out, is meeting serious competition, and the mills have been forced to cope with the sit uation, or curtail production. While reduction of material and labor has lowered production costs, profits have necessarily been materially reduced practically to a minimum, mill men point out in order to meet the unfair advantage which the international trade situation gives to the foreign manufacturer. It is impossible yet to determine the final point at which normalcy will be reached, but it is already definitely established that the level of final ad justment will be a higher one than has ever been legitimately reached, which, in the final analysis, will result in in creased prosperity to those whose judgment and foresight save them from the pessimism attendant upon the chemicalization which is rapidly separating the speculative and the un sound from the stable, productive ele ment in modern industry. Value of Farm Land In State Shows Big Gain in Past Decade LICENSE IS ISSUED A marriage license was issued Thursday to Olaf D. Moen, 25, and Louise Larson, 16, both of Monitor. The girl received the consent of-he,' parents. Alihough Oregon farm lands hav; increased only 15.9 per cent in area in the last ton yenrs, their value has jumped 55 per cent in the same period from $52S,243,7S2 to $818,559,751. This is brought out in a ptatistir.:il report which has been prepared for jse at the Pacific Northwest Fruit' ex position, which is to be held at the Bell .Street terminal in Seattle from November 21 to 2i. The greatest; increase in the far.u valut is the result of the growing u.-. of mechanical methods in fruit cu -ture which, i Oregon is practical I v synorymous with agriculture The re port shows that farm machinery dur cent, while build. ngs were jumping development in the last 70 years .is ind only 42.4 per cert. Orego? s phenomenal agricultural development in the last 70 years is i-howi. in graphic style in a tabulated statement which has just been pre pared for use at the Pacific Northwest Fruit expostiion. which is to be held at the Bell Street terminal in Seattle from November 21 to 26. Portland is went to pride itself on the metropolitan progress that it hns i made in the same period but the re port shows that this growth is as noth ing in comparison with the agri cultural develoT.-nu nt. In 185U there were only 1164 farms in the entire state, their area being a mere 432.S0S, or about 2 of 1 per cent of the area of Oregon. Today more than a fifth of the land. in the ?tate consists of farms, there being 50,20'". farms with a total area of 23, r42,S18 acres ' The report shows that the greatest proportionate increase was made iu Lthe decade following 1850, when thsr.j was a gain of 39S.3 per cent in the number of farms and of 376.1 per cent in farm acreage. The next rtecads, ending in 1870. brought a numerical gain of 30 7 and an area gain of 16 The 1880 census showed 113.7 per cen; more farms find 76.4 per cent greater acreage. In lSl'O the report shows a numerical gain of 57.4 and an ar;a gain of 63 9. p.y 1900 the gains were 40.4 and 45 S; the next ten years thei. hroucht increases, of 27 and 1C per cent, and since that time the number .f farms has increased 10.3 per cent and ihe acreage 15.9 The Oregon farmer of today is just about four times as rich as his grand father was in 1850 although the Jut er owned a Roud deal more laud. Thi.- i? indicated in figures compiled for the use of the Pacific Northwest Fruit exposition, whi.-h is t; be held in Se attle from November 21 to 26. The report shows that while the area of .he average fani in 1850 was 37t.s acres, as against 26S.7 today, the valu? of the old farm was only $4217, white today's average is $16,304. By Howard Hilles. 1 often read romances and with envy I am filled, I read the last "best seller," enthralled, entranced and thrilled, But, tearfully I sorrow and persistently I pine. No story-book experience has ever yet been mine. Truth's stranger far than fiction, so such happenings well may be. But I sorrow as I say it theynever happened to me! I meander to the movies, where 1 view upon the screen Such sights and situations as I c wear I've never seen; I've lived through several summers, but I mournfully admit Less really happened in them all than in one six-real hit, So I mope off to the movies, where successively I see A thousand things occurring that never happened to me! My neighbors tell of dramas where they have played a part So handsomely heroic that it thrills my humble heart; And amazed I gaze upon them with a glamour in my glance, To hear of "actual happening" that sound just like romance. My friends are truthful as the chap who chopped the cherry tree Why do things happen to them that never happened to me? OPEN DOORS JN BUSINESS Bee-keeping is a business which may be almost one hundred per cent profit as the bee-keeper may own but little land, need hire no extra labor. furnish no food, and other expense is very small. However ,it is rarely pos sible to develop it into a business large enough to make a sole support. It is well to keep bees in connection with other phases of farm life. Because of their function of fertil izing the flowersbees are essential to successful fruit growing and the rais ing of berries. Bee-keeping is a good combination with, fruit growing, mar ket, gardening, poultry or flower cul ture, the woman, in this case, hav ing about ten or fifteen hives. Any where that nectar producing flowers grow, bees may be kept, but the abundance s of flowers in the vicinity is a consideration. cup suet, cup floured raisins, teaspoon cinnamon, teaspoon salt, half tespoon each of cloves and allspice, half cup sugar .three tablespoons flour. Steam in baking powder cans two and a half hours and serve with same sauce as bove. buildings of uniform height of beau tiful architecture of harmonious front age, with attractive show windows dis playing the wares for sale inside, no unsightly poles nor mesh of wires, nor toppling light posts, nor boxes, nor traya ,nor cars to clutter the roadway or sidewalk, no ragged awnings flap ping the wind ,nor signs extending dangerously overhead. Picture again a narrow street, rough ly paved with noisy brick or stone, with here a sky scraper and next to it a low building, with a beautiful front neghboring with an ill planned build ing protruding a foot or 'two on the sidewalk, goods for- sale piled in masses out on the street which is clut tered by carts and baskets and boxes and trays, signs rattling and worn, posts for every purpose holding lights, awnings, telephone and tele graph wires and trollys. Which street is your down town? If the latter, it is time the, women cit izens got busy. Telephone, telegraph, and lighting wires) are now laid in pipes under ground in up to date cities. Aristic posts may hold the lights, ornamental by day as well as by night. The ar rangement of lighting has much to do with the beauty of a street. It may : not only be beautiful in itself, but by its brilliance and arrangement may light up to the bet advantage beau- THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Taken from the Oregon City Enter prise December 4, 1921. Contractor Welch, who has charge of the erection of the new brick build ing owned by G. A. Harding and others, has moved his family t Ore gon City from Portland. These Drapery Days Exit War and World-Weariness! Enter Delight and Draperies! We are expressing a reactionary flaring out of gaiety in our house furnishings. To the four winds with the somber classical; hail the festive festooh! Of course, we are not discarding our I has met with much opposition The officers of the Home Talent Dramatic club are F. D. Bruce, mana ger;' Miss L. McAtee, treasurer; H. Thorne, secretary, and Everett Hick man, stage carpenter. The club is actively rehearsing the drama which will soon be produced. A Portland . orchestra . has been engaged f r the event. A Firm Change J. W. O'Cemiell. the popular clothier, has sold a half interest in his business to A. J. Lewth waite, who entered the firm the first, of December. Mr. Lewthwaite is well known here and the new firm is a strong- one. For a Motor Line The third and ap parently last survey for an electric motor line from Portland to Oregon City was made last week on tie west side of the river. The line comes up back of Mr. Morey's place and Wal ling's nursery and touches in the Os wegoOregon City road at the third bridge below J. Thompson's place. Annual Military Ball Company F gave its third annual ball on Thanks giving night at the armory. It was the most successful one yet givea. The iti K.iiiio- eotoo Mint'ino ot,,i i ball room was gorgeously Operated narks It deserves studv bv the t "witn evergreens, riowers, mirrors auu citizens. We can surround ourselves as well with civic as with household beauty, if we will. Hope For the Mother-Baby Bill. The Sheppard-Towner Bill, which neutral bac grounds and staid furnit ure, but we are using these as the whereupon to hang draperies. We are gladdening-up again "the cold and cruel Winter, the long and dreary win ter.' The first thing in the remake of a all along the line, is now faring more happily. It has been reported 'favorable" unanimously, by the House committee where it was formerly most bitterly opposed. It will probably soon become a law. By its provisions the National Government of the United essentials, then decide upon the color ton . If it is a dark, north room, a KrfcTit warm tvwI -trllrvw rt Tnco iq It is not everybody who will succeed j thfi tlll. Mnos at utwivewpiij. il seeing to lane a. roof is to clear out all but the prime States will cooperate with any state so desiring to establish more effective mother and baby life savig agencies. natural love of bees to succeed in their care. They must be carefully watched or they will not thrive and be healthy. Only an acute observer, and one who understands bees, will notice signs of disaster in time to head them off. To such a- person, however, bee raising seems the easiest possible way of picking up extra dollars, for the bees themselves will do almost all the work if kept in condition. More profitable than raising honey is the raising of new colonies or of queens to sell. An average of 35 pounds may be expected from each colony when bees are well cared for. It is estimated that the flowers of America would permit of ten times as many bees being raised. This would be a good bi-product for any farmer to add to the farm business, but it can probably rarely be enlarged into a great plant as the flowers in any neighborhood would not support it. To do best bees should not need to forage farther than one mile from the hive. ure, then danity lavender, soft tans or grays with blue, green or pink figures or stripes. If for a man or boy, choose "any color just so it's red" the one and only masculine favorite from the cave age. The girls r MRS. SOLOMON SAYS: SSS-3$$- Whew, but how we dislike to sit will like rose or green or blue. Mother I beside her of the freshly dry-cleaned will prefer purple, lavender and gray, garment! She is pretty certain to Recipes NT ER NATIONAL MILLS CUT PRICE OF PAPER PORTLAND, Dec. 3. The Interna tional Paper company has announced a reduction in their 1922 prices on news print paper from $80 to $70 a ton, according to private wires re ceived by Overbeck & Cooke from Dow Jones & Co. of New York City. This year, when there has been somewhat of a fruit shortage and something mysterious has happened to our raisins, the cranberry may help out. It may be substituted for raisins to give richness to many recipes. It may be combined with other fruits to give bulk find tang. Cranberry and apple pie may be us ed, with sliced apples ad cranberries, half and half. Cranberry and apple jelly is a good combination. Use two thirds cup sugar to each cup of combined juice and cook five minutes. Use cran- berres in your mince meat and don't forget grandmother's good old cran berry tart. Grapefruit Salad Scoup out the center of grapefruit and heap it on lettuce leaf - for a garnish. Sprinkle a tablespoon of grated cheese over the grapefruit pulp and pour French dressing over this. Hot Pie With Sauce. Hot, individual pies beat the cold article all hollow. When serving, pour over each a hot pudding sauce made wth any combination of fruit juices, or a lemon or vinegar sauce, eriched with plenty of butter and thickened with cornstarch. Carrot Pudding. Don't stick up your nose at this just because our friend, the carrot, is a humble, nomely creature. This pud ding is an aristocrat, and, true to the recognizable in gorgeous makeup species, of earthy origin but un- Mlx cup of ground carrots, half or real linen-color, dear to woman from the days of home-spun. Having determined the color, the next qustion is where to put it and how much. Hang it on everything yards and yards of iL The draperies furnish the room, with scanty conces sion to a few necessities As to the windows, Inside the lace, net or silk curtains which cover only the window frame and reach but to the sill, is the drapery curtain. It hangs in long panels on each isde of the window and is weighted and lined to give a heavy, dignified sweep as it reaches to the floor. The white sateen lining presents a white front to the outside feature. hang straight at the sides of the win dow to conform to the lines of the room ,but we are rekless rule-break ers in our present mood and some of them drape from the middle and are caught back at the sides. Across the top of the window is a valance a foot deep. This may be plain; shirred; pleated; or festooned after the fancy of the undertaker. The draperies may be of simple hem, ruffled, fringed or double shirred, smell of gasoline. Which reminds us of the fellow who entered the vaude ville where they were burning those smokey chemical lightsi. "I smell punk," he remarked to the usher. 'Sit right down here," answered the usher consolingly, "and nobody will notice it. Our dry-clean-ordered lady would smell less punk if she would evaporate off those last persistant ordors by hanging the garment in the hot sun or in front of the register. It takes a little extra heat to drive off the lingering smell. But she must . take care not to get the garment overhot or hang it near an open fire where and helps the non-fade the escaping, fumes will catch fire. Most of the long curtains flags. Suspended in the center ot the hall was a large piece formed of stars and the letters "Co. F, O. N. G." in evergreens. The dressing rooi was made of flags in front of whick v as a small grove of fir trees, makin? a beautiful effect in the brilliant lii ht. The entertainment committee was composed of J. E. Rhoades, F. S. Kally, T. P. Randall, Charles Athey, J. W McConnell. The floor committe? was composed of J. R. Trembath, Frank Burch, George Warner, Lance Gardner, H. E. Stevens, William Sheahan. Lieu tenant J. W. Ganong, Sergeant W. T Whitlock, corporals L. L. Pickens. Sid ney Smythe, and Privates Howell ad McKittrick constituted the recaption committee. The music was furnished by Everest & Collin's orchestra, of Portland. The grand march was led by Lieutenant and Mrs. J. W. Ganong. The ball consisted of 20 dances, and was not finished until 3 a. m. Supper was served at the Livermore hotel. HAPPY THOUGHT S'S'&-'8'-SSS--'S.S.JJ What's the use o' folks a-sigin"? It's an awful waste o' breath. An' a body can't stand wastin' What he needs so bad in death. What's the -use? Paul Lawrence Dunbar. INSANE, SAYS GARDNER PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 5. Roy Gard ner, escape convictet mail robber, will' go into the United States district court here today for trial on two charges. He will base a plea of not guilty on the claim he is not normal mentally. Gardner faces trial on two indict ments, one charging him with rob bery of a United States mail car at Maricopa, Ariz., forty miles soth of here, early in November and the other alleging that he attempted to rob a mail car at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway station here cm No vember 15. lanything goes and orignaJitjy runs The bed must also be dressed Starkweather Xo overdressed. It fluffs out like a ballet TTorl TnrlrcrkTi PlnV dancer. A cover, of the same material AACdU. JcH,JVSUIl as the window draperies, hangs to the floor, perhaps with a ruffle all around. PORTLAND, Dec. 2. The Jackson It reaches up and includes the pillows, club, with true Jeffersonian amity, The rocker is decked out with drap- elected Harvey G. Starkweather pres- eries to correspond. Dresser and table scarfs and even the electric light shades are. made off the same bolt Drapery materials may be velvet damasks, tapestry, cretonne, linen ,or silk. They must be figured, .striped, or plain. They may be dark, dignified brown royal purple, or mapestic ma roon; blooming, quaint, historic, con ventional or grotesque; any possible ident for the ensuing year at the an nual meeting held last night in Cen tral library hall. He defeated John D. Mann, who was also nominated for the office. Starkweather was elected after a turbulent debate. J. H. Smith of Astoria was elected vice president. Frank Vaughn secretary and F. C. Whitten treasurer. The club voted $100 towards the BANK ROBBER SHOT PORTLAND, Dec' 6. One robber was shot and killed almost instantly and two others were captured at 3:15 p. m. today during an unsuccessfml at tempt to hold up the Bank of East Portland, 100 Grand avenue. H. H. Newhall, president of . the bank, was shot in the abdomen by one of the robbers, but his condition was report ed to be not serious. ! GEORGE HOEYE I CHIROPRACTOR I Cauf ield Bldg. Phone 636-" Oregon City, Ore. IIUIIIMIINIIH Phones lUNIimiHIIMdlU t Res. 251-W I shades and combinations of glory, Woodrow Wilson Foundation fund and I but they must be consistent. The de signs, style , of drape, and materials must harmonize. If of silks, satins or ! velvets, all must be of these; if wall able, then stick to the washables. The Woman Citizen The Appearance Of Our Streets. We sense conditions most keenly by contrasts. For this reason picture to yourself, first a street, wide, orderly with even, smooth, quiet pavement, also decided to hold a banquet on January 7. Milton A. Miller was the speaker of the evening, discussing the world war. He indorsed the disarma ment conference as a step towards staple peace in the world. DAIRYMEN TO STAY PORTLAND, Dec. 6. The Oregon Dairymen's Co-operative league will not be disbanded, according to result of the vote of the membership, can vassed today: Off. 80 EMORY J. NOBLE I LAWYER Justice of Peace f 1 201-2 Masonic Temple, Oregon City. 1 lHiniM1imilMllHIIIIHIHIIIIIUII 6 Per Cent State School Money to Loan on Farms I SCHUEBEL . BEATTIE I Bank of Oregon City Bldg. I Oregon City, Ore. i Gas Buggies-How the reel and the real do differ. IN THE MOVIES THE HERO TAKE'S HIS &lG RACER OUT FOf? EZERC&E. 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