OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922.
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MOONSHINE STILL
IS LOCATED AFTER
TWOYEARSEARCH
Sheriff and Three Deputies
Spend Seven Hours in Hunt
Over 160 Acre Ranch Of
Matt Walkirk at Estacada.
RECORD BAIL WILL BE
ASKED BY OFFICERS
Fourth Attempt to Find Plant
In Clear Creek Succeeds ;
Modern Apparatus Is Used.
A moonshine still, the location of
which lor more than two years has
baffled the searching parties of the
revenue office, the sheriff's office and
the special prohibition officers, was lo
cated late . yesterday afternoon upon
the ranch of Matt Walkirk.
In a raid that required seven hours
of searching on Walkirk's 160-acre
. farm near Dodge, 15 miles southeast
of Estacada, Sheriff W. J. Wilson, ac
companied by three deputies confiscat
ed a 30 gallon still. 200 gallons of
mash and a gallon of finished liquor.
Heavy Ba'l Set
Walkirk's bail last night was placed
at $1,000 by the sheriff. This'is th
highest bond on record here for such
an offense. The man is held in the
county jail in default of payment.
The still was discovered on th
ranch about a quarter of a mile from
Clear Creek. The affair was located
under a shelter of roots from an up
turned tree at the bottom of a ravine.
There was no road leading to the still.
Supplies, the officers later discovered, ;
had been dropped from a wagon road
on me top oi ine nuge, uuwu a inc
cipitous bank, about 300 feet. Only
an ill defined foot path led to the still.
Pla,nt Well Equipped
The plant was equipped with pipes
for pumping water from a nearo
spring, and with a series of exhaust
pipes, pressure burner and modem
equipment for such an illicit plant.
The still, the sheriff believes, has
been in that location for about two
years, and is thought to have been
moved from a location found at some
distance where the marks of a still
were discovered. In the latter loca
tion a bed which had been evidently
ased by the bootlegger, was found.
The raid is the fourth made recently
on Walkirk's place. The law and or
der league made one raid a year ago
when Walkirk was arrested for sell
ing liquor to one of their operatives.
The revenue men raided the place un
successfully, and a raid had been
made by the sheriffs office over a
year ago.
The district in which the raid was
made is one of the worst "stillholes"
in the count, according to Sheriff
Wilson.
Indian Tale of Pillar Rock.
There are Indian, tales of the Pillar
rock, which Is located about 1,000 feef
from the Washington shore, and which
stand about 20 feet from the surface
of the Columbia river, and of the oc
currences thereabouts, real and fanci
ful. One is that Chief Skamokawa,
his ire aroused because a CKtsop
brave made away with the oJdefs
daughter, hurled the rock at the de
parting canoe of the swain from the
tribe across the river, missing the craft
but implanting the huge pillar In mid
stream. The rock extends below the
30-foot depth, and the base, or projec
tion, is said to have an approximate
width in excess of 30 feet.
George Vancouver, following Gray,
the discoverer of the rfver, spoke of
it in 1792 as "the remarkable pillar
rock." He is said to, have been told
of the roclf by Gray and entered the
river on the way down the -coast.
"Washing One's Soiled Linen." J
The phrase, "washing one's spiled '
linen," is popularly used to express
airing of unpleasant private affairs
or family quarrels In public, the anal
ogy being, of course, that both are
matters for disposition In the privacy
of one's home.
The expression comes down to us
as one of the brain children of Vol- I
taire, the famous French satirist. Tlie
occasion for its origin is said to have
taken place in 1740, when General
Maustein wrote to Voltaire asking to
be vindicated publicly of accusations (
made against him.
vniiro hnnnpnpd to be occupied i
in answering the appeal of Frederick days. Wrong was punished and right
of Prussia to help him straighten out ) triumphed, however crude the pro
one of .his dilemmas. So lie .replied cess. They were melodrama in print,
to Maustein :
"The king has sent me some of
his dirty linen to wash. I will wash
vours another time."
Stenographer Wins Horse Races
Miss Dovey Steen, who recently
made her debut with a traveling com
pany of horseback riders, making her
first appearance at Molalla, and since
that time taking . part in difficult
"stunts" at Pacific City, Tillamook
and Dayton, Oregon," has returned to
Oregon City to visit her father, of
West Linn, and other relatives. Miss
Steen has thoroughly enjoyed the
novelty of life riding wild horses, and
has met with only one accident. This
occurred at Dallas when one of-'the
horses she was riding collided with
a gate. From this city she will go to
Vancouver, Wash., where the riders
will appear. Miss Steen has won
many of the races she has entered.
She will retura.o Oregon City in the
fall," where she expects to take up of
fice work, being a stenographer.
The great "buyers' strike" of 1920-21, a never-to-be-f orgotten
event in the economic history of this country, proved a point
which must henceforth he recognized as basic and incontro
vertible. .
It was discovered by merchants and jobbers everywhere in
practically every line of merchandise, that it was the trade
marked and adequately advertised brands of goods that got
the lion's share of the business there was to get, while the pre
ponderant loss of sales fell on the unbranded and uriadver
tised goods.
This was a great "showdown" for Advertising. Its position
as a factor in economic life was on trial. Had it really done
what had always been claimed for it? Had it created consumer
preference that would hold against the keen competition of a
sacrifice price on unmarked goods?
. The verdict of the buying public was unqualified. It was
not a straw vote to determine popularity. It was the final test
of willingness to buy. The ballots were dollars. And the pre
ponderant majority voted with their dollars that they preferred
to keep right on buying advertised goods.
With the whole country on a reduced schedule of produc
tion and sales, the factories that were able to keep on produc
ing, in anything like normal quantities, were invariably those
making tradqmarked and nationally advertised goods.
The Book Corner.
By C. E. G.
DIME NOVELS
There is a lot to be said for this
decadent world. It was not so long
ago but the yellow back novel and
the penny terrible could be read only
in the seclusion of the woodshed, read
with an eye cast askance for the
sudden approach of the paternal an
cestor, mayhap armed with the busi
ness section of the bonnie briar bush.
But to use the parlance of the car
tooniist, those halcyon days have de
parted forever more. The New York
public library has destroyed the illus
ion that once clothed the cryptic per
usals of the tales of Diamond Dick
and his kindred highbinders. They
have created a collection, some 1500
of these novels, which have been plac
ed on the shelves. The novels, how
ever, are not allowed to be placed in
general circuration. They may, how
ever, be taken down for inspection,
and read to one s hearts content with
in the library reading rooms.
Now that the mystery about thejn
is removed, they lose half their ap
peal, especially when one remembers
how careful the librarians of a decade
ago would have been to keep such
"abnoxious" weeds from out their
literary gardens. The surest way to
make a book read is to put a ban up
on it. The dear public, young, old
and otherwise immediately . becomes
curious and works which otherwise
'.vould not be bothered will immed-
; iately jump into sub-rosa popularity.
"No doubt thoasands of men who,
as boys, read these lurid tales fura-
tively-with full realization of how wick
ed it was, will ook them over and
smile," remarks the Eugene Register
"They were not really wicked at
all. Their basic morals were sounder
I than a great deal of the stuff written
by highly reputable authors nowa-
and it must be admitted that they had
literary merit, in their way. There
was always action, always interest,
always directness and strength. There
were no dreary wastes of sermoniiz
ing, no tiresome description, none of
what Mark Twain called 'weather.'
They went straight to it, and told
stirring tales that gripped and held
youthful readers and many not so
youthful."
WHY IS A FLAPPER?
THE HOUSE OF MOHUN: By George
Gibbs.
Talk about the devil, runs an old
saw, and he's sure to put 'in an ap
pearance. ,
This is the. conclusion which
George Gibbs draws concerning the
modern flapper. She is a flapper be
cause of flapper talk. She has devel
oped a case of severe egoism, not
egotism if one may be permitted the
distinction, for the simple reason that
there" has been so much said concern
ing her, so many analytical attempts
to plumb the mysteries of her being
which aren't mysteries after all.
There is no field in which she has
been overlooked. ' She has been put
into pictures, into books, into songs,
into conversation, until it is no more
than natural that she shou'd imagine
herself about the most important
young person since Cleopatra, " and
continue to flap deliciously, basking
In the sun of an endless fire of in
triguing comment.
Gibbs makes an honest attempt .to
explain it all and does it not so bad
ly with Cherry Mohun, a product of
the war' and reconstruction period, as
emblematic of the great race of young
ster . whose 'sole excuse to fame is
that peculiar sophistry of youth which
appears characteritic of the present
day.
Cherry is the daughter of a man
who has made money fast during a
ten year period,, ending in a rapid
accumulation of worldly goods during
the war. Cherry, back from over
seas, where she drove an ambulance
for some months, and still on the
sunny side of 21, two years after the
armistice, is 'shown as the somewhat
spoiled, flapperish daughter of a man
of means. Then comes about a sud
den reversal in the affairs of the
family, and .through the reaction of
the young lady to the sudden deluge,
it would appear that the flapper after
all is made of somewhat sterner stuff,
that requires but obtruse circum
stances to uncover.
Cherry, despite the attempt to show
her rising to heights of character
I does best in the former role. A bit
over sentimental, she goes blandly on
her way, possessed. of but one purpose,
to keep from being bored with life. In
her wild desire to enjoy this mundane
existence, she appears as the more
real, and perhaps the more easy to
undrstand. The latter chapters in the
book, from a standpoint of personal
ity, appear the bit more stinted.
It is delightful to classify books as
to the period in which they should
be read. The House of Mohun is un
mistakably intended for summer time,
for those lighter days when under the
lethargy attendant upon an August
sun one longs for something refresh
ing, simple in plot, with just enough
individuality to somewhat ordinary
characters to leave a pleasant taste.
As Lincoln might have said, it is that
kind of book.
The U. S. Bureau of the census re
ports an increase of 546,823 in the
number of horses in the past ten
years and an increase of 1,331,879 in
the number of mules. We are get
ting more stubborn every day.
Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
could have solved the South End road
problem. Just harness the energy that
is going to waste in "chin music"
over the proposition and the " com
pressed air machinery thus actuated
would do the rest.
The Chicago spiritualist who pre
dicted the terrible storm on July 27,
came about as close to the truth as
the forecasts of the weathermen for
rain.
Published by the Morning Enterprise, in co-operation j
with The American Association of Advertising Agencies. J
RELATIVE ARMIES
A REGULAR ARMY of 133,000
men and 12,500 officers is pro
posed in the revision plans for the
United States military forces, made
by the military affairs committee of
the senate. Through reductions in
enlistment, the war department has
already cut te standing quota of men
to 133,000 and economies In the pur
chase of supplies and in other army
activities make it po'ssible that an
authorization of 133,000 men would
cost considerably less than was at
first anticipated.
' In this connection it may be inter
esting at this time to compare the
size of the American army with those
of several other countries, on the
basis of population. France, with a
population of 41,500,000 carries 5,238,-
000 men, including regular or active
army and organized trained reserves.
Organized forces "per cent of popula
tion 12.6.
Italy, with a population of 36.740,
000, has an arnty of S.300,000 men or
9 per cent of her population. The
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slov
enes has 14,365,000 population and an
army of l,240,00ff men, or 8.6 of its
population. Little Belgium, with a
population of 7,556,000, carries an
army of 350,100 men, or 4.6 per cent
of her population.
Spain has a population of 20,696,000
and an army of 916,600 men, or 4.4
pe cent of her . population, while Po
land wth a population of 25,406,000,
if she is to be credited with what she
has filched from Lithuania under the
eye of the league of nations, has an
army of 1,100,000 or 4.3 per cent of
her population.
Russia is credited with nearly 131,
000,000 people and she has a stand
ing army of 1,595,000 who are taking
the food and production from the
civilians. while the United States and'
other countries feed the starving pop
ulation. Ths really amounts to our
support of the Russian army.
Apparently Germany has not dis
armed,' for with a population of 60
000,000 she is credited with an army
of 570,000. Japan claims 77,000,000
as her imperial population, which is
somewhat high and probably includes
Korea whose' sovereignty was destroy
ed by Japan in 1910. The Japanese
army numbers 2,050,000. Argentina,
with a population of 9,000,000 sup
ports an army of 340,400.
Great Britain has a population ot
47,000,000 and keeps up an army of
442,500 which includes the present
strength of British and Colonial forces
outside of India, plus reserves and
territorial forces in the United King
dom. This is less than 1 per cent of
her insular population.
Many of these countries owe the
United States large sums of money.
If' they would reduce their armies to
the American basis the saving in cost
of upkeep would aid materially in the
payment of those debts.
SKILLED WORKERS NEEDED
"DUILDING CONTRACTS awarded
in the United States, for the
first four monthsof this year aggre
gated $990,000,000, practically a. round
billion. Last year they were only
$600,000,000 for the same period. In
SImowdowim
All over the country today manufacturers, jobbers, and
merchants are giving serious consideration to this important
and conspicuously demonstrated fact; the public prefer to buy
nationally advertised brands of merchandise. And public de
mand is the last word in all economic situations. No one can
go against it and long endure.
, This will mean, then, that more and more manufacturers
will seek out ways to make their products worthy of a distinc
tive trademark and a sustained plan of advertising. It will
mean that merchants wall more and more give preference in
their stocks to advertised brands. It will mean that the jobbers
will more and more arrange to supply the merchant with adver
tised brands. "
But new advertisers, manufacturers who are finally con
vinced that their future lies in the direction of an advertised
product, will discover that the magic power of advertising can
not be applied overnight. It may require sustained effort to
attain a position of equality with competitors who have been
advertising for many years. This will be an unwelcome, discov
ery. But it will be found to be the truth, and will be their only
hope of gaining a substantial foothold in what, from now on,
must continue to be a more keenly competitive market than
we have known for a generation. .
1920 the recorded total was a little
more, but that was a year of many
cancellations. The present record is
regarded as the best in the history of
the building industry.
With this building boom started,
there has developed ' rather suddenly,
within a few weeks, a shortage of
skilled labor which interferes with
building progress and prosperity. And
thereby hangs, a tale.
As 'a recognized authority explains
it, this shortage is due to a lack of
immigration. Before the war, he
says, the United States depended
mainly on Europe, with its establish
ed system of apprenticeship and voca
tional training, to supply fresh mater
ial for the building trades. Hardly
any trained mechanics have come in
since 1914, and this country itself j
has not established any adequate sys- j
tern of training to maintain the sup
ply. So. with a vast amount of new
construction to be done, the work
must lag for lack of workers.
This situa)tioi seems to call for
two things First:, a" modification of
the American immigration system
that will enable this country to pick,
on the other side of the Atlantic, the
useful" immigrants ' it needs and
wants, before they sail, instead of ac
cepting blindly the unskilled labor
that makes the usual bulk of our im
migration second, a comprehensive
system of vocational training of our
own, to provide recruits for the skill
ed trades.
' Call it coincidence, but the munici
pal elevator is always --running when
you want to walk down the steps,
but usually on the "close for repairs"
list when you want to ride up.
WANTED No. 1, Old growth cord
wood in car load lots, call .or write.
Rose City Wood arnd Coal Co., 352
East Clay St.;- Portland. It.
I have a Fordson Tractor that I
will sell cheap. Philip Hammond.
Adv.
FOR SALE Pure blood Rhode
Island cockerels. Frank Schmitz.
Sandy.. Phone 51.
I have located in Oregon City. I
am an old hand at the business, I
guarantee to get as much money for
your property as any man in the
state. Phone 510W for dates.
W. D. OVERTON,
Auctioneer.
I have 4 head of large horses for" sale.
Young and sound. Going to leave.
I am stopping at Red Front Stables.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notijce is hereby given that the
County Court of the State of Oregon,
for the County of Clackamas, has ap
pointed the undersigned, administra
tor of the Estate of B. Maffei, deceas
ed. All persons having claims against
the said decedent, or his estate, are
hereby given notice that they shall
present" them to "the under-signed ad
ministrator at the office of Gilbert L.
Hedges, Bank of Commerce Building,
Oregon City, OregoVi, within six
months from the date of this notice,
with proper vouchers duly verified.
SAM MAFFEI,
Administrator of the Estate of B.
Maffei, deceased.
GILBERT L. HEDGES, Attorney.
Date of first publication, August
August 4th, 1922.
Date of last publication, September
1st, .1922.
SUMMONS
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Clackamas County.
Mary A. Smith, Plaintiff,
vs.
H. Q. Smith, Defendant.
To H. Q. Smith the above named
defendant,
In the Name of the State of Ore
gon; You are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above entitled suit
on or before the expiration six weeks
from the date of the first publication
of this summons, which date of expir
ation is fixed by order of the above
entitled Court as September 8th,
1922 ; if you so fail to appear and an
swer plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief prayed for in her com
plaint. This summons is published by or
der of Geo. R. Bagley, Judge of the
above entitled Court.
The order is dated July 25, 1922.
Date of first publication July 28,
1922.
Date of last publication September
8, 1922.
JOHN P. HANNON,
Address, 3ll Consolidated Securi
ties Building, Portland. Oregon, Attor
ney for Plaintiff.
SUMMONS
No. 18816
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Clacka
mas. Mable L. Cox, Plaintiff,
vs.
Harvey E. Cox, Defendant,
To Harvey E. Cox, defendant:
In the Name of the State of Oregon,
you are hereby notified and required
to appear and answer the complaint
of plaintiff in the above entitled Court
and cause on or before Saturday, the
Bth day of September, 1922, and if
you do not so appear and answer, the
plaintiff will apply to. the. Court for
the relief prayed for in the complaint,
to-wit:-
For a decree dissolving the mar
riage contract heretofore and now ex
isting between plaintiff and defend
ant; that she have the care, custody
and control of the minor child of
plaintiff and defendant, and that she
have such other find further relief as
to the Court shall seem equitable in
the premises.
This summons is published by or
der of the Honorable J. U. Campbell,
Judge of the Circuit Court for the
Fifth Judicial District of Oregon.v
which order was made July 24th.
1922, directing that the summons be ;
published in the Oregon City Enter
prise once a week for six consecu
tive weeks, the date of first publica
tion, July 28th, 1922, and the date of
last publication, September 8th, 1922.
JOS. E. HEDGES.
Attorney for Plaintiff, Bank cr
Commerce Bldg., Oregon City, Ore.
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