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S THE WEATHER. $ $ Oregon City Probably fair; 8 3 easterly winds . 3 Oregon Fair except showers or snow flurries. VOL. Ill No. 53. JUDGE CAMPBELL THINKS CON SOLIDATION, WOULD BE GREAT BENEFIT HEDGES TRACES GROWTH OF LAW Attorney Points Tp Good That Has Resulted From Separating Church and State Hypo crites Are Scored. Much enthusiasm was manifested at the first of the forum meetings held at the Methodi3t church Sunday night Judge J. U. Campbell and Gilbert L. Hedges spoke on "Christianity From the Standpoint of a Lawyer," and the immense audience was delighted with the addresses. Dr. T. B. Ford, the pas tor, introduced the speakers and ex plained the object of the meetings. Judge Campbell spoke in part as fol lows: "I believe that I am safe in saying that as a general rule the lawyer's viewpoint of Christianity Is broader and more comprehensive than that of any other class of people. Gclden Rule Everything. "If you mean Christianity" as em . bracing the teachings of Jesus Christ as laid down in the book commonly called the New Testament then no lawyer nor any other civilized person who has the well afre of the comun ity as well as his own at heart can find fault with it. In my judgment this Christianity is all summed up in what Is generally referred to as the gold en rule that is "do unto others as you would that they should do unto you." The only fault or criticism that law yers or anyone else can have is that a great many people who profess Christianity give it some other defi nition or attach other conditions. Perhaps this is more noticeable in church members than in many so-called non-christians, and It is with this branch of the subject I propose to deal. A lawyer by the very nature of things must be a student of the bible. The very foundation of all laws of all the christian countries is found in the book of Deutronomy. This book is largely the basis of the found ation of what lawyers call thee ivil law or the fundemental law of all the Latin countries and their numerous off shoots. It is largely the law upon which the common law of England and all the countries that have grown up under that law. So I say every lawyer who wishes to go to the fountain head of the rules relating to his profession must go back to his bible. A lawyer must be a man of business. His profession is that of settling and straightening out commercial entanglements as well as assisting the community in which he practices in keeping the people in the straight and narrow path by hi3 con tact with the criminal classes. Method Might Be Improved. . "As a business man the average lawyer would probably arraign the church member for his extravagance. That is that it costs too much to carry on Christianity by the methods adopt ed by the church. Take for instance this town where there are 7 or 8 christian churches. They have invest ed in real estate and properties prob ably $200,000. This is an enormous sum of money for this size town. If it is necessary of course it is not- too much, but some times the lawyer feels that it is not required. In Oth er words is it advisable and is it to the best interests of all concerned that here should be so many churches and so many different denominations would it be better if we had fewer stronger and more powerful organiza tions. Big business today and I might say successful business is tending more an more towards consolidation and concentration and I know no big ger business than that the church is engaged in, that of being the moral teachers of the people. No one, not even a lawyer has any fault to find with the objects of Christianity but "many people criticize the way which professing christians go about attain ing that object. It has often suggest ed itself to my mind that if we could only centralize, that much more good might be accomplished. I have no criticism to offer as to any of our local pastors. So far as I know every one of them with whom I am acquaint ed is a personal friend of mine, and when I consider the stipend they re ceive I often wonder that they stay with us at all. I know that they are told to go forth and take no thought of the morrow and when I hear of the magnificient salary many of them receive I am lead to conclude that they at least certainly fulfill that scriptural injunction. Yet while that injunction is laid on them there is no similar restrction placed upon the people to whom they minister.' In fact it would seem that their flock should always remember that the la borer is worthy of his hire. You can not expect any man to furnish first class service at starvation wages. And many of your preachers have to struggle in order to make ends meet ' from a financial standpoint.. Union Is Suggested. "A man to be a leader of men should have ample time to think without be ing hampered with the everlasting question of food for himself and fam ily. Just think how fine things would be if we had in this town one or two great big churches able and willing to pay a good and substantial salary to their pastors and furnish an as sistant so that they could, once in a while, take a vacation by traveling around the world and mixing with the people under different circumstances and conditions. It seems to me that difficulties in the way of different church organizations of this town get ting together are not Insurmountable. Why Is it that while all other lines of busines are able to consolidate the most important of all must scatter and break up Into Innumerable factions and sects, each one to a certain ex- LAWYERS MAKE PLEA FOR CHURCH no m yCANPMA AS SHE WAS AND JS. ' ' ' GRANDMA OF OUR YOUTH - AND AT PRESENT. ent preying upon he other, and you find the members skipping from one to the other-and are usually welcomed. It seems to me that if this thing could be accomplished it is and end -devoutly to be wished. , "The next criticism to be offered by the lawyer is posibly that there is a shade of superstition in the make up of many people. You know that a great many good, honest chris tians are actually looking for miracles ana are tniniung that some myster ious influence is going to change men and women in an instant. I do not belive that this is the way the creator and ..director of this -universe works. No one has ever seen a great tree grow to its proporions in the twinkling of an eye, nor a grain of wheat develop in a instant, nor a child grow up to manhood or woman hood in a moment. So it is with the mind or soul of man. "Some one has likened the mind of man of a garden. It requires contin ual cultivation in order to keep clean of weeds. So it Is with man in the formation of his character. He mu3t ever be on his guard to keep out evil thoughts. There is a great deal of truth in the saying, As a man think eth, so he is.' If our mind is given to useful employment, thinking how we can better our condition as well as that of the comunity, we will have no time for evil thoughts. I hold that a man's first duty i3 to the Creator. And I am sure you will all agree with e in that stament. Many of us differ and honestly differ as to the manner of discharging a duty. In my judgment we best perform that trust when we first of all look to our families, then to the immediate com munity in which we reside, and then to our state and nation. If we should simply confine our efforts to doing right ourselves at all times and under all circumstances it would be but a short time until we should find that our reformation would speed and em brace the whole community. But in stead of doing this we are continually trying to reform the ether fellow, and just as soon as something turns up that is not liked we immediately say let us pass a law to prevent, a re-oc-curence, instead of searching for the cause and reforming it. Hedges Makes Fine Speech. Mr. Hedges spoke as follows:" "I have been asked by our pastor to speak on Christianity from the view point of a lawyer. To understand the mental attitude of an attorney of the presemt time toward Christianity it might not be amiss to state that the sources of our law date back beyond the Christian Era. In following these sources and studying the laws, dev elpment, the student of law runs across religious rules and principles. He discovers a constant and irrepres sible conflict beween man-made laws an erligious beliefs and regulations. Among the Greeks, we note the inter ference of the gods and goddesses with human acts and deeds. Leon ida3, King of Sparta, with his 300 he roes died defending the pass of Ther mopolae because Greece was engaged in a religious or sacred fesival and could not send aid to the defenders of the pass until the gods had first been appeased. Here the noblest sen timent of the Greeks love of coun try or patriotism was ignored through religious scruples. The re sult was devastation of the fair land of Greece. Another example is offer ed by treatment of Socrates, the phil osopher. He was tried and convicted before a citizens' jury of more than five hundred upon the charge of dis believing the gods which the city be lieved in, and introducing strange god3. He was found guilty. The death penalty was Imposed upon him. It so happened that at the time the (Continued on page 4.) WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED I 3 66 OREGON e .edttilisip: PERPETRATED BY WALT AVC SECOND RACE FOR SPECIAL PRIZE OH AUTOMOBILE CONTESTANTS ARE WORKING HARD TO WIN MER CHANDISE CERTIFICATE MISS RUBY M'CORD COMING TO FRONT Sheahan, Still In Lead, Straining Ev ery Energy To Be Victor In Great Struggle For Tour ing Car. S&S$3Se.S3JSS STANDING OF CANDIDATES. Joseph Sheahan 29,800 Ruby McCord 15,200 John Brown .. . 7,000 John Weber 6,000 Charles Beatie 6,000 John Haletson 6,000 McColly Dale 1,000 Edna Huchinson 1,000 Royce Brown 1,000 Barnett Howard 1,000 Delias Armstrong 1,000 Kathryn Towney 1,000 Mabel Chase T 1,000 Ethel Rief . 1,000 Harry Miller 1,000 Fred Metzner 1,000 Frank Bruce , 1,000 Leo Shaver .' 1.000 Normina Klemsen 1,000 Mabel Albright . 1,000 Joe Alldredge 1,000 Today is the first day of the sec ond special ten day contest in the race for the automobile that the En terprise is to give away on the first of June. The person who gets the most votes between now and March 15 will be given his or her unrestrict ed choice of $15 worth of merchandise in one of Oregon City's many good and prosperous clothing emporiums. To win this prize, a person does not need to have been heretofore en tered in the race. For instance, a con testant might enter now and carry off the $15 award , by securing more votes during , the next ten days than any of the persons at present in the running. . , These special contests are merely an added feature and do not detract one whit from any contestant's chance of obtaining the grand prize which is a Ford fore-door,- five passenger tour ing car. This car Is too well known in this county to need any praise here. It is a modern car, staunch, well made and thoroughly reliable in every re spect Attorney Chria Schuebel's well known trip Into Southern Cali fornia last summer with his Ford tells more than its innate excellence than this whole page could tell in print. Ralph Waldo Emmerson In his es say on Self-Reliance, says, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, or for worse, as his position; - that though the wide universe Is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given him to till." This contest is the same. Do not envy or imitate the other can CITY, OREGON. TUESDAY, D OUGA L LO.- didates but work out your own salva tion "on the p'lot 'of ground which is given you to till." The Contest Manager is glad to advise and help, at all times but his pltaform is "equal rights to all, special privileges to none." New contestants can learn much that will keep them in the race if they are able to have a talk with him. He is an old hand at the game of getting subscriptions and conse quently has many ideas which will not occur' to a beginner. When the last count was made Shea han had the lead. His determination to keep the first place is evidenced by the strenuous work he is doing all the time. On the other harfd, Miss Ruby McCord shows an equal amount of determination by the stick-to-itness with which she goes after prospect ive subscribers. Then there is Leo Shaver, the boy on the Molalla team who has used the "big stick" to such a great advantage in the School League during the last two seasons. If he would show the ginger he uses in a base ball game, the leaders would have to put on a full spread of can vas to stay ahead of him. - The Mo lalla country is big and prosperous and he is so well known that if he would sit on Robbins Bros, steps some Saturday morning, he could get enough subscriptions to make every body sit up and take notice. Miss Ethel Rief's popularity in the New Era neighborhood is such that nobody would refuse her a subscrip tion. The Pacific Highway goes right through this peaceful river side ham let and the people see such good times coming that they all want to be up with the times so feel the need cf a wide awake daily like the Enter prise. An so on. We might go ahead and name each of the con testants but there .Is no need. There is one thing you should remember, however, and that is that you are pot selling gold bricks. The value of a subscription to a daily paper cannot be estimated by the price paid for it. DINNER BY BROTHER Dr. Hugh S. Maunt Monday -night tendered an informal dinner in honor of his brother, Dr. Guy Mount, who r4 cently came to Oregon City. to prac tice medicine. A merry crowd of the doctor's bachelor friends gathered round the festive board and made the evening merry with stories and toasts. Many remininces of the "good days of old" were 'told, and the fun waxed fast and furiou3. The guests were Dr. Guy Mount, Harry E. Draper, Ralph Parker, Livy Stipp, Charles Par ker, Roy Young, Charles F. Bollinger, Roy Armstrong, and Dr. Thomas Fox of Portland. , . W. E. TAYLOR PROMOTED BY SOUTHERN PACIFIC W. E. Taylor son of I D Taylor, left Sunday evening fpr Dunsmuir,- Cal., where he will have charge of the draft ing department of the Southern Pacif ic Company's car shops. Mr. Taylor was graduated from the Oregon Agri cultural College at Corvallis last June and since October 15 has been em ployed at the car, shops at Willsburg. He is only twenty years of age, and the position just given him by the Southern Pacific speaks well for his work. The time to. read the Morning En terprise is at the breakfast table or a little before. - MARCH 5, 1912. FISHERMEN FIGHT FOR OPEN RIVER W. S. U'REN MAKES PLEA FOR CRAFT TO COMMISSION IN - - PORTLAND RECENT ORDER IS CALLED UNFAIR Establishment of Dead Line At Bridge Also Declared An Injustice - Scores of Anglers ... Expected Declaring that the fishermen here had been discriminated against by the fish and game commission, George Brown and Charles Ely, a committee appointed by the fishermen, and their attorney, W. S. TJ'Ren, went before the commission in Portland Monday and asked - that the recent order in augurating the closed .season fornet fishing in the Willamette March 1 be rescinded. Mr, U'Ren argued that the law provided for the closed season be tween March 15 and April 15 and that the order making it from March 1 to May 1 worked a hardship upon the fishermen. The reason given by the commission for making that order is that young fish have been liberated in the river and they should be given a chance to mature. The- order provides the same rules in the Willamette river as apply in the Columbia river. Howev er, it does not prevent angling and it is declared when the river clears there will be scores of line men here. Mr. U'Ren also objected to the order making the dead line for net fishing during the open season at the bridge. The law fixes the dead line 600 feet from the falls. The fishermen say, owing to the back water, it is impos sible to get good results with nets at the bridge and below. The back wat er, they assert prevents the tide from moving the nets down stream, and the salmon are able to escape. TO AID OREGON GOODS The Board of Governors of the Com mercial Club, at 'a meeting Monday nigt, granted Colonel E. Hofer editor of the Capital Journal, the use of the Commercial Club rooms for a meet ing in the interest of the Manufact urers' Association. Colonel Hofer will-hold a meeting here soon to. urge the use of "Goods made in Oregon." The club also considered the invit ation oi the committe in charge of the excursion to San Francisco to se lect a site for the Oregon building at the World's fair. It is probable that several members of the club will make the trip. A special fare of $25 round trip has been arranged. .The House Committee notified the gover nors that a pool and billiard tourna ment was being arranged. Handsome prizes will be offered. DR. N0RR1S SERIOUSLY ILL OF Dr. J. W. Norris is seriously ill of bronchitis. He had been confined to his bed for two weeks and his friends are alarmed jover his condition. Dr. Norris is one of the best known phys icians in Oregon, and has been health officer of Oregon City and Clackamas County for several years. Mrs. Nor ris, one of the leaders of the Wom an's Club, and who was largely re sponsible in having the McLouglin home preserved, was operated upon several months ago for appendicitis. AMERICANS QUIT MEXICO IN HASTE EL PASO, Tex., March 4. One hun dred and fifty Americans from the big American lumber town of Madera, Mex., reached Pearson, Mex., this aft ernoon. An attempt will be made to morrow- to make up a train on the Mexican Northwestern to bring them to El Paso. E. S. Plum and two companions, who left the city xif Chihuahua at 6 o'clock iast night by auomobile, brought word that the purport of President Taft's proclamation re questing Americans in disturbed sec tions of Mexico to leave the country had been received there and that a considerable exodus was in prosnect. DISTRICT DEPUTY TO ADDRESS MODERN WOODMEN L. W. Lang, district deputy for the Modern Woodmen of America, will meet with Oregon City Camp No. 5666 this evening, "'he object of his visit is to explain he members the reasons for an the plans for the re adjustment of the rates. PORENT-TEACHERS -MEETINGS ARE PLANNED A parent-teachers' meeting will be held at the Alberta School' house March 23 from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Everyone is cordially invited to at tend, v ' A parent-teachers meeting will be held at Springwater, Saturday, March 9, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. County Supt. Gary will preside. Everybody is cordially Invited, accompanied by their cousin, Roy va COLONEL DENIES INDORSING TAFT EX-PRESIDENT EXPLAINING DE CLARES HE YIELDED TO "DEMAND." T. 1 FOUGHT BEING CANDIDATE Former Occupant of White House In sists He Did Not Want To Ent er Race But Friends Made Him - OYSTER BAY, March 4. Colonel Roosevelt said today it was perfectly true that he had said he would not be a candidate in 1912. He had made that statement to many persons, he said, but had not declared that lie would not accept the nomination if it were tendered to him. He drew a distinction between becoming a candi date and being willing to accept the nomination. The Colonel made it plain that he saw nothing in the letter to manage mg Editor van Valkenburg, in which he said he would not be a candidate in 1912 to conflict with his recent stat- ment that he would become the nomi nee of the party if his party asked it. Colonel Roosevelt's stand in the matter i3 set forth in the statement he gave out today explaining the cir- cumsances that induced him to write to Mr. Van Valkenburg. This is the Statement: "At that time persistent efforts had been made from Washington to con vince the 'progressives' that I was really supporting Taft. On this par ticular occasion the statement was made with the greatest explicitness. I promptly denied the statement and was assured on the other hand that It had been inspired from the White House and assured on the other tnat it had not been, but on the contrary was made purely on the initiative of the Associated Press. "The Associated Press people as sured me that they were not rspon sible for the false statements, and, as it will be seen by reference to the let ter itself, Mr. Noyes was quoted as having got the information from inde pendent sources. I do not know who gave out this leter, but I am certain that it was not'Ms. Van Valkenburg, for I know him to be an honorable man. "To all who were at that time writ ing me to be a candidate I an swered that I , would not be. To all who asked whether I would accept if nominated I answered 'yes', if I knew them sufficiently well to he sure that they would understand me; otherwise I said simply that I would cross that bridge when I came to it, and in most cases if the man was at all a close personal friend I told him that I counted on his doing everything pos sible to prevent any movement look ing to my nomination. "It wa3 not until the last three or four months that I was finally obliged to come to the conclusion that there was a real demand among the people as a whole for my nomination, which did not come in any way from any personal friends of mine, and was neither inspired nor engineered by them. . "When I became convinced that this popular demand was teal and was considerable, and when the Gover nors of seven different states, in creased by this time to ten, I may mention incidentally, asked me whether -I would accept if nominated, I answered, 'yes'. VETERAlli" PENSIONDAY FEAST Pension Day was observed by Meade Post, Grand Army of the Re public and the Women's Relief Corps at Willamette Hall Monday afternoon. A delicious luncheon was served by the women and the old soldiers had a delightful time recounting their ex periences in the dark and trying days of the republic. Pensions are paid quarterly on March 4, June 4, Sept ember 4 and December 4. The at tendance Monday was the largest for sometime. JULIUS HARBURGER. Sheriff of New York County En joys Salary of $12,000 and Fees. Photo by American Preaa Association. I 7 I J & The only daily newspaper be- tween Portland and Salem; circu- ? lei in every section of Clacka- mas County, with a population of 8 30,000. Are you an advertiser? $ Pkb Week, 10 Cents CHIEF OF FIREMEN CATARACT HOSE COMPANY MAN BEATS JOSEPH BEAULIAU, 90 TO 44 MICHAEL LONG ELECTED ASSISTANT F .W. Humphrys, E. Hendrickson And Harry Williamson Are New Commissioners 135 Votes Cast Charles Hannaford, of the Cataract Hose Company, was elected Chief of the Fire Department to serve one year Monday. The chief receives a salary of $10 a month. Hannaford received 90 yotes and Joseph Beauliau, of the Hook and Ladder Company .received 44 votes. Micheal Long was elected assistant chief, receiving 108 votes. He had no opposition. The following were, elec ted fire commissioners: E. Hendrickson, 106 votes; F. W. .Humphrys, 80 votes and Harry Will iamson 81 votes. William Weismandel who was defeated, received 58 votes. The polls were open from 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the election officers being J. T. Gleason, Clerk; Harry .Freeman, Clerk and Murril Elliott. More interest was taken in the race than ever before, 135 votes being cast, while 127 were cast last year.- W. A. Long, the retiring chief, has been congratulated by many of the business men upon his efficient ser vice. There are six companies in the" city and 180 firemen. DEBATE SINGLE TAX A debate between W. S. TJ'Ren and Grant B. Dimick on the proposed sin gle tax amendment will be held in Central Grange Hall, Beaver- Crek, Friday evening. Mr. U'Ren will open the debate with a 30 minutes talk ; Mayor Dimick will speak 30 minutes: Mr. TJ'Ren will speak 30 minutes more, Mayor Dimick will be allowed the floor again and Mr. U'Ren will close." Mayor Dimick is one of the leading opponents- of the single tax in thi3 county, and declares That it has little chance of becoming a law. Much int erest is being taken in the prospect ive debate, and it is assured the hall will be crowded. It is probable that" Mayor Dimick and Mr. U'Ren will de bate single tax in other parts of the county. E. T. FIELDS BACK; HEALTH IMPROVED Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Fields and daughter, Clara, have returned from California where they spent several months. Mr Fields was seriously ill when he left this city, but his health has greatly improved and his physi cians say his complete recovery is only a matter of a few weeks. The treatment he underwent at the South ern Pacific Hospital was of great ben efit to him. Mr. Fields will not re sume his duties a3 station agent here for the Southern Pacific Railroad for . some time. OPTION ON BIG TRACT Several wealthy Portland men have an option on thirty-seven acres owned by W. W. Raymond, ot walla wana and seven and one-half acres owned hv Ansni at Rrickson on the Clackamas River about four mile3 from Oregon City, the intention being u tne prop erty is bought, to establish a country club. The tracks are 'large enough for a golf course of nine holes. The club will be similar to the Waverly course, and it is probable that several mem hers nf that organization will af filiate with the new one. It is plan ned tO lS3Ue ?5U,UUU 310CK, $3!,UUU 10 be preferred and $15,000 common. Mr: Rrioksnn conducts a tavern on the property which he has offered to sell to the prospective club, - OREGON CITY PASTORS FORM ASSOCIATION The Oregon City Ministerial Associ ation was organized Monday with the following officers: President-J. R. Landsborough, Pres byterian church. Secretary and Treasurer George N. Edwards, Congregation Church. The following are the members of the association: ' S. A. Hay worth, Baptist Church; T. B. Ford, Methodist Church; C. W. Robinson, Episcopal Church; F. Wievesick, German Evang elical Church; F. Clark, United Breth-, ren Church and J. L. Jones, Parkplace,, Congregational . Church. All minis ters in Oregon City and vicinity are urged to become members of the as sociation. Meetings will be held the first Monday in each . month in Bs. Ford's study in the Methodist church. nANNAruRD NAMED