MORNING ENTERPRISE, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1912. PET D Stories from Out of Town JENNINGS LODGE. IN OUR FACILITIES GROWTH BUSINESS WE HAVE Out modem printing and binding establishment would interest yot. We wotild be glad to have you inspect it Ofegon C i t y ENTERPRISE Maker of BLANK BOOKS LOOSE LEAF SYSTEMS The Morning Enterprise is the best breakfast food you can have. -, Anxious. . Old Jones Can you give my daugh ter the luxuries to which she has been accustomed? Cholly (engaged) Not much longer. That's why I want to get married. Chicago News. The Servant Problem. "What has been the greatest diffi culty with which you have had to con tend. Mrs. Kinder, in your struggle with the servant girl problem?" "Preventing the good ones getting married." """"A Blunder. "What on earth made you compli ment Miss Fetchit on her taking ways?" "Why not?" "Don't you know th poor girl is a kleptoma niac ?" Baltimore A uaerican. Mrs. H. H. Emmons was a guest of honor at luncheon at the home of Mrs. Brodie in Portland Friday, Wm. Ross has recently purchased an automobile which he finds very con venient to use in his business in Port land. Miss Hazel Bingham, who has been attending boarding school at Monta villa, has returned to this place" to make her home with" her sister, Mrs. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. George Alcott, who have spent a year on the Pacific Coast, dividing their time between Seattle and this place, are to return on Sat urday to their old home in Greens- burg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Alcott has accepted a .very promising position in his former home town. While here they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will B. Jennings. Mesdames Wm. Gardner and J. E. Seeley were callers at the Lodge Thursday. Mrs. Felix and daughter, Miss Eva Felix, of Oak Grove, were callers at the Painton home Friday. Messrs. Hugo Sandstrom and Ed. .Paxton are busy clearing their acre age and fencing and otherwise im proving their land near the East Coun tv Road. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have moved into a cozy litle home on Blanton street, which was formerly occupied by the Conway family. The Conway family removed the first 01 ine wees to their home at Gray's Crossing. The little child of Mr. Berry, who re cently came to this place, is quite ill with pneumonia. Mrs. G. W. Card and Mrs. William Cook were Portland shoppers Friday. Miss Ethel Thompson, of Portland, was a week end visitor with Miss Mabel Morse Sunday, and the Misses Myers, of Gladstone, were callers at the above, home. Congratulations from their many friends are being received by Mr. and Mrs. L. Wilcox over the arrival of a little son, who came to make his home with them on March 5. Mother and child are doing nicely. The Jennings Lodge Community Club held its regular meeting on the evening of March 6th, at the school house. Not enough members were present to transact business. Much good in the way of improvements at this place, could be accomplished if more would take an interest, as eight or nine members cannot do much with out the hearty co-operation of every .property holder in this community. The Circle met with Mrs. H. C. Painton Wednesday afternoon from 2 till 5. The afternoon was spent in sewing for the hostess. Miss Helen Painton furnished some instrumental music. Those present were the Mes dames Truscott, Newell, Warner, Stov er, Cook, Strain, Emmons, Mac Don ald, Roberts and Miss Scripture. Warren Potter, of Portland, has re turned home after a visit at the H. Roberts home. Mrs. Tillie Moore was a business visitor in Oregon City Friday of last week. Miss Le Clair Ostram was enrolled at the school this week. Mrs. Olin Ford, "of Portland, spent two days this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Newell, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Sandstrom have bad, as their visitors,..Roddie McDon ald, of Portland, and the Misses Eva Burlingame, of Vancouver, Wash., and Mollie Rose, of Gladstone, during the past week. Rev. Bergstresser spoke on the sec ond coming of Christ at the Grace Chapel on Sunday, March 3rd, which is a beginning of a series of sermons to be continued during the coming month. Monday evening Rev. Radebaugh, of Milwaukie, will speak at the weekly meetings whichare being held at the Grace Chapel, and Tuesday evening Rev. Frank Culver will conduct the service. All are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. James Welch have again taken up their residence here after spending the winter in Portland. John Jennings, who was hurt some time ago by falling from a water tow er, is not recovering as rapidly as his friends would wish to see him and has decided to leave in a few days for the hot springs. Coleman Dill spent Saturday and Sunday with hi3 sister, Mrs. Cal Morse. MILWAUKIE. Emrich in Brooklyn. Mr. Pennell moved into the rooms formerly occupied by Dr Townley Albert Townley, of Silverton, spent two days here this week with his brother, Dr. Townley. The city council held a meeting Thursday evening and ordered notices posted granting a franchise to the Minthorn Springs Water Company, al so notices to bond the town for $5000 for fire fighting apparatus. Matters of engaging an engineer to survey and establish grades and for sewer dis tricts was referred to the street com mittee to report at the next regular meeting. Mrs. Thos. Toats is suffering with a bad foot. She stepped on a nail a few days ago and has been unable to walk ever since. DIM1CK PRAISES EQUAL SUFFRAGE (Continued from page 1) The Independent Order of Foresters will give a basket social Thursday, March 14th in the Woodmen hall. All are invited. Come and have a good time. S. A. Thomas has been confined to his home for several days with a bad case of lagrippe. He was able to sit up Wednesday and hopes to be in the office in a few days. The Grange held its regular meeting Friday evening. A resolution was passed to increase the number of dele gates to the state grange, also a reso lution asking the state Grange to take some action in regard to the state Grange Bulletin, that Oregon may have a separate paper from the state of Washington. The Mothers' and Teachers' club will meet March 21st in the school house at 3 P. M. Miss Jessie Hodge Millard, children's librarian of Port land, will speak on the subject of "The Responsibility of Parents in Re gard to their Children's Reading." The club desires to extend an invitation to everyone to attend. The Women's work club met Wed nesday at the Grange hall and sewed all day. A fine lunch was served at noon. All present enjoyed the day. Services were held in the new Cath olic church Sunday morning at eight and ten o'clock, and will be held regu lar from now on every Sunday. Rev. Father Downs, of Beaverton, has been appointed and will arive Wednesday and take charge of the Parish, and will also occupy the Parochial resi dence. The ladies auxiliary cleaned and furnished the modern eight room house. -The W. C. T. V. met Friday at the home of Mrs. Frohman in Minthorn. The Women's Missionary Society of the Evangelical church will meet at Mrs. W. H. Grasle Thursday afternoon. Evangelical church Rev. E. Rade A., 7 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednes day evening; Teachers' Training on Thursday evenings ; choir practice, Friday evenings at 8. Sunday even ing the pastor will give the second sermon in a series on the "Christian Science Delusion." Mrs. Jennie Davis was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland Sunday evening and operated on Mon day morning. Mrs. Davis is doing a3 well as could be expected. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wendle spent Sun day with Mrs. Wendle's mother, Mrs. State for school purposes, the pro ceeds of the sale of which, to form an irreducible fund and the interest applied to the up-keep of the schools. Those having the. matter in charge failed to do their duty and by some hook or crook the school lands were sold and the fund dissipated. The crooked politicians got their hands in and where we should have today $100,000,000 in this irreducible fund we have about $5,000,000. The revenue from this amounts to about $2 per pu pil and we are compelled to pay a balance of $8 per pupil instead of be ing free of this if the. politicians had acted squarely. Washington was more fortunate. The people kept away from the politicians and that state has to day a revenue of $9 per pupil. "While our ctizens pay willingly the school tax, it can be plainly seen that the time has come for the educated class of people to exercise great care in voting for measures submitted to them. No Government can long exist, without a Christian and educated peo ple. We must Iodic to the churche3 for the moral stamina, to the- school to supply the mental energy to our growing boys and girls that will make them a power in the community. "The initiatve and referendum should be carefully studied. - The in itiative should be supported. I be lieve in it and voted for it but I be lieve as it is, it is abused. There are too many . measures submtted to the people to vote upon at one time. It is absolutely impossible for a single man or women to intelligently con sider forty measures in the short time given. ' The number should be reduced so that care and study will give the result of better government. I am not criticizing the initiative but be lieve it should be modified to get the best results. The church can assist in gaining better government by . exer cising its moral force while the schools will supply the executive. If we look over our community today we will find one-half of the business men who conduct our civic affairs are church-going people. And I wish to state here that the ministers of all the churches of this city are doing a great and lasting good to this com munity by their broad and righteous methods in assisting in civic direc ton of affairs. "There is a lack of interest of the voters. The voter should study gov ernment more. Why, five years ago there was a call for a meeting to raise $5,000 by taxation for a school. Five people in the whole city met and these five voted $5,000 for the whole com munity. The rest of the citizens showed no interest. This is not right for 'if the people are to govern let them take a hand and awaken to the needs of the hour. "Reverting to the initiative, I be lived that it could be remedied if we took more care and showed more cau tion in our naturalization laws. There are a great many foreigners that are among our best citizens but there is a large class of voters who are for eigners that have been naturalized and do not show enough interest in the American people to even learn our language or send their children to our schools if they can avoid it On election day they are allowed to vote without having the slightest idea of what they are voting for. "It developes upon every man and woman of these United States to be alive and awake. Let every man and every woman born in these United States have an equal right to the ballot and by their intelligent votes our government will prosper. I be lieve the time will come when women will have the same right to the ballot as men. In my business relations l have never found a woman inferior to a man when it comes to a pure business point. The women are teach ing our children, molding their char acters and should have an equal right and franchise as they are governed by the popular law. "Politics has improved the condi tions of the interior districts, making them more congenal, but we never should have accomplished this had not the church and school worked in harmony, these forces forming the dominant power of the world. "When we find a man who is not studying government and politics or not supporting the public schools, we find a man who is not doing his duty to the community. And the church is the place to discuss these questions as it is .the public forum and its in fluence is strongly felt in our govern ment. ' "Our High School is the result of the work of a few men. All the citi zens, men and women, should have been in partnership in this great edu cational monument. The public sc'nool3 of today are so arranged that the poor boy may sit beside the rich boy, and each receive equal education. The large interests, the railroads and man ufactories willingly pay the school tax because it preserves their property, through the medium of education, and protects it from the mob. "This calls to mind the anarchistic revolt of a day ago when soap box orators and their supporters insulted a foreign visitor at Portland. The af fair is a disgrace to the community and a most regrettable thing. Most of these roughs come from foreign countries and are the ignorant class. We are becoming too liberal and the time will come when we will realize how liberal we were. The ignorant are the prey of these soap box orators. With education we should not have such scenes of anarchy. With more stringent naturalization laws such in sults should not be heaped upon hon ored visitors without the confines of our great and growing cities. There is absolutely no excuse for this an archistic conduct in a cosmopolitan city like Portland. Now is the time for us to think of the puture and ex plain to our children theae great prin ciples of Government and as a result we will have a better country. "The political system backed by the great moral force of the church has made some of the brightest and brainiest men of Oregon. We need more such. 1 Use your influence, moth ers and fathers, and bring up your children under the protecting mantle of Christianity and imbue them with the desire for education, that great light will lead us on to a better condi tion and make us better men and women." Watch the automobile contest. IP y O Working for the other fellow ami Get Busy for Yourself What can be won with a little work a fine prfce every 10 days ESBOES the AUTO To what people are saying and you will see how popular yot are THEN GET IN AND WIN Yours for the asking . Ti -: - . t I ..I. y- f.vi '" ;-'':--' ' sli4 " ' ' t'r. .. jt, ', Ji , ... y ,--,.'.. . Don't it look good to you To stimulate interest in the voting and to give each one a chance to profif by their work we will give a prize every ten 'days. These prizes will not aftect the final count in any way as all votes will count on THE GRAND UTOnOBiLE' These prizes will be given to the one that ha nds n the largest number of votes every ten days. The Second Special Prize for the best 10 days showing will be an order on J. Levitt's Popular Store. This order is good for anything in his store worth up to $1 5.00 or can be applied on a larger account. This order had ought to be worth every effort you can put forth.