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MORNING ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1912.
SOME SPICY
SPORT CHATS.
M'lnals of Athletics Is Most
i Valuable First Sacker.
HOW HE PAIRS WITH CHASE.
New York Crack Pulls Off More Sen
sational Stunts Than the Philadelphia
,r Star, but, on the Whole, the Latter
' Outclasses Him.
" By TOMMY CLARK.
Philadelphia baseball experts say
"Stuffy" Mclnnls of the Athletics is
the most valuable first baseman in the
game today. He is a far more valuable
player tban Hal Chase and has the box
scores to prove it For one thing, Mc
Innis is a harder hitter than the High
lander star. There is not much differ
ence in the fielding. Chase perhaps
will make more brilliant plays in a
season than his younger rival, 'but for
steady, sure and conscientious work.
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Photo by American Press Association.
"STUFFY" M'INNIS.
game in and game out, there is nobody,
who has anything on the New England
boy.
"Stuffy" has the advantage over
Chase in that he is more adaptive to
team play and club discipline and
fights to the last. Mclnnis impresses a
spectator as playing more for the love
of the game than the fortnightly check.
Chase, brilliant as he is, sometimes is
mulish. When the Highlanders are
winning he looks like the best player
in the country, but as soon as they
slump Chase becomes morose, and his
game suffers. He is not a leader, but
essentially a follower.
Here is a lesson for the fans who
try to make money betting on ball
games.
Huguey Jennings has never 'bet a
nickel on a ball game.
"Baseball is too uncertain for me to
risk my money on it," said Hughey.
"After a month or two of the season
are gone I believe I have a good line
on the ability of the different teams,
but ball teams miss running true to
form as often as they hit it. Candidly,
I think a man is a fool to bet on base
ball." Detroit could have used Clarence
Mitchell had it retained him instead of
farming him to Providence.
Veteran-players pointed out last sum
mer, that Mitchell was not getting
enough work. They declared that he
had as much stuff as any left bander
in the league, but that ail he needed
was work. He didn't get it, and dur
ing the winter President Navin sent
him to the International league city to
aid the Clams in their fight for a pen
nant i Since being with Providence Mitchell
has pitched great ball. He has not
been hit with any degree of strength,
and in less than two weeks he pitched
a one hit game, a five hit game and a
four hit game.
The latter was against Rochester,
the 1911 pennant winner, and the fail
ure of the Clams to properly support
him cost Mitchell the game.
i Who started off that story of the
youthfulness of Buck O'Brien, the
Boston American pitcher who twirled
60 wonderfully for Denver last sea
son? O'Brien ia thirty years old if he
is a day, and perhaps thirty-two years
' (vould not cover the distance the twirl
er has Journeyed on life's bright path
way. ' But there's no denying that O'Brien
is a great pitcher, but then that
youngster stuff was getting rather
monotonous to the eye and ear.
Delahanty a Philosopher.
. The philosophy of Jim Delahanty
has it that "errors are the staff of life
of baseball. They are to the national
game what good food Is to the human
stomach." But Del might have added
If not properly assimilated they are
.likely to create gastritis of the per
centage. LIGHTEN YOUR CARES.
Quick is the succession of human
events. The cares of today are sel
dom the cares of tomorrow, and
when we lie down at night we may
safely say to most of our troubles,
"Ye have done your worst, and we
shall meet no more." Cowper.
The Reason.
" Maimie Why is Agnes so blue?
Gladys Because her nose Is so red.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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jEastham Argues Against
Revised
The following in substance are the
arguments presented by O. W. East
ham in relation to the revised city
charter, to be voted upon next Mon
day, at a meeting held at the commer
cial club last Monday.
In submitting the new charter, the
committe appointed by the council
to draft it has offered their argument
in its support. This committee con
sists of admittedly able men and if
they were unable to "advance better
reasons for a complete and funda
mental change in our city government
the conclusion naturally follows that
there is little virtue in the cause they
represent. The fact that our mayor
and council have not worked in" har
mony during the last year seems to
be their chief cause for urging a new
charter. Their remedy, as set forth
in the proposed charter,, is for their
council of five members to name one
of 'its own number mayor, who shall
be subject to immediate removal- by
them should any act of his happen to
displease them. It is easy to imag
ine what a splendid example of Anglo
saxon manhood will be able to hold
the office of mayor under such condi
tions. If strife between the mayor and
council has militated against the
welfare of our city, there is little
doubt that the citizens of Oregon City
will be -able to put a finger on the
cause of it and avail themselves of
an effective remedy at the next city
election. The unfortunate condition
is due to our own mistakes, not to any
fault of our present charter, and with
good grace we may well partake of
the fruit of our own folly.
This committee knows that a sim
ple amendment to our present char
ter would permit the issuance of
bonds to provide funds for play
grounds, public docks nd public ele
vators. Since they find in this ex
igency an argument for a radically
new form of city government, howev
er, in order to credit them with full
measure of intelligence that is right
fully theirs we must charge them with
resorting to a trick of very doubtful
propriety in seeking the support of
the uninformed for the new charter
by creating the false impression that
a vote for the proposed charter is in
any way necessary for securing free
docks, elevators and public play
grounds. The proposed charter provides for
five councilmen. Hence three men,
constituting a majority of the council,
are to have absolute and unlimited
authority in conducting the city's af
fairs. They appoint one of their num
ber mayor. If this mayor's chief of
police aoesn t suit tnem or if any
member of the police force doesn't
please them of if the recorder or city '
treasurer or any other city official
refuses to dance to the music of these
three men, constituting a majority of
the city council, directly or indirectly
they may remove any or all of them,
if their mayor doesn't choose to re
move the chief of police they easily
remove the mayor and appoint an
other who. will do their bidding. Thus
is our novel charter deftly arranged .
much after the fashion of Abe Ruef's
once glorious and effective political ;
machine that dominated San Fran
cisco. I contend that within a very short
time, under such a triumvirate as we
are about to create, the citizens of
Oregon City will have m.t.1
voice in the government that effects ;
them vitally than a galley slave had i
in the days of ancient Rome. Do you
suppose for a moment that the three :
men constitutinsr the maioritv nf the.
city council, using all the patronage If our citizens favor changes sug
at their disposal will be able to re-' nested by the committee that do not
elect to the council the single one of
their number whose term expires at
the end of the year? If you doubt
their power consider for a moment
the extent of the patronage at their
disposal; every workman who is paid
from the city treasury, every political
position, all the suport that is pur-
chased in granting private accommo-
dation at public expense, become po-
SAVING TIME
WHEN a man feels the necessity of being
v in two places at the same time he goes
to the nearest telephone and sends his voices
It is not exactly the same thing
miles in opposite directions from
good. , " '
In the daily use of the telephone a maij travels all over town by wire
in a few minutes. It is just as easy to travel all over the state and other
states by the means of the universal Long Distance Service of the Bell
System.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Every Bell Telephone is the Center of tht System
THE
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico
traversing the states of
SONOROA - SINALOA - TEPIC - JALISCO.
Gives Access to 'II !
- - OPPORTUNITIES FOR WEALTH ' ' ' "
in
Cattle, Farming, Mining, Timber
Let us list you for a copy of our new booklet soon to be pub
lished. " '
. H. LAWTON, G. P. A, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
City Charter
litical assets absolutely under the do
minion of three men.
We are urged that men are too
righteous to do such things. But the
history of hundreds of American cit
ies teaches us that men most fre
quently do such things where oppor
tunity offers. Our present charter
stands as a reasonably effective
check on municipal corruption but
the proposed charter leaves the peo
ple almost powerless to redeem the
city when faithless officials shall have
plunged.. heV into shameful disrepute.
My contention is that this unbal
anced form of government, with its
combined legislative and executive
feature, at first representative, very
soon becomes . self perpetuating and
despotic, if you. think me visionary
I cite you a near by example, the
government of the Portland City
schools, and I submit that this is an
instance of a self-perpetuating direct;
orate so thoroughly organized and so
well organized that the citizens of
that city have ceased to even imag
ine that they have a voice in the con
duct of their public schools.
Regardless of whether results are
good or bad our people will not en
dure this arbitrary power. They will
not continue to submit to authority
that does not spring from themselves.
And I tell you now thatif you enter
on this pathway of folly and short
sightedness you will not be well on
the way before the struggle of the
people, awakened, is on, to cast aside
the bauble they had accepted for its
novelty and under a mistaken appre
hension of its true import.
I have attempted that under the
proposed charter our city government
in a short time, would make no pre
tense of being representative, but 1
have not yet mentioned its funda
mentally most objectionable feature.
No argument has ever been- offered
in favor of this or a similar form of
government that looked beyond pure
ly financial considerations. It has
been compared in efficiency to our
county courts but these are purely
executive in character they estab
lish no laws limiting or enlarging
rights or privileges of the people.
They are instituted primarily as fi
nancial agents. It has been compar
ed to the successful management, by
a board of directors, of great corpor
ations; but the sole business of such
a directorate is to direct the working
of a common fund to the end that it
may produce a maximum annual div
idend. J
in addition to the purposes just
mentioned, and .of greater importance
our city government establishes our
innumerable civil and personal rights
and privileges. It enters into the
sacred precincts of our home, divid'
mg wun us our autnonty over our
children; it limits the use we may
make of our property within the city
limits it states the conditions under
which we may pursue the vocation by
which we earn our livelihood; it de
clares the portion of our earnings
that we must surrender for the com
mon benefit of the community. To
ask tnat authority over these matteis
De given three men, with undoubted
power of self -perpetuation in office,
is iu iKe us DacK to tne days 01
King George and the American revo
lution,
I believe that the spirit of the aga
demands that we place man before
the Dollar. This issue is the terrific
undercurrent that is agitating the
vnole nation today. And in the midst
OI lms contention you submit a plan
of government that ignores Mankind
ana Deifys the Dollar.
alter tne verv nature of our city gov-
ernment, these can be embodied in
an amendment to the present charter.
t0 abject failure. If next Monday our
citizens inconsiderately grasp this
innovation, I say now that time will
bear out my contention; it is wrong,
absolutely wrong in principle and it
can not endure as the basis of our
government
W TELEPHONE
but when a man talks hundreds of
the same Bell Telephone, it if about as
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Stories from
-COLTON.
Mr. Sherman of Portland,-who owns
the Howlen place, came out with his
daughter and two sons last Sunday.
Mrs. Berkly, who has been visiting
with Mrs. L. Elliott at Elwood for
some time, returned to her home at
Portland last week.
John Putz has purchased a new
wagon.
Archie Bonney made a business trip
to town Saturday.
Gust Gottberg Is busy building a
new barn.
Jonas Engstrom, who has been vis
iting in different parts; of Canada, has
returned to Oregon and is staying
with his brother John at Colton.
Miss Nellie Bonney left to work
near Oregon City last week. -
Bert Means, of San Francisco, Car.,
a former resident of Colton, was vis
iting with Mrs. Dix last week.
Jake Seibold, of Portland, was a
visitor at Mr. and Mrs. J. Putz last
week.
Mrs. Alfred Anderson, who has been
very sick with pneumonia, was taken
to the hospital at Portland last
Thursday. We all hope for a rapid
recovery and to soon see her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stromgreen and
daughters were visitors at Mr. and
Mrs. Gust. Gottberg's Sunday."
W. E. Bonney attended the Oregon
pioneer meeting last week.
Mr. Danielson's store house is near-
ing completion.
Charlie Freeman and sister, Miss
Hazel, of Elwood, called on their
grandmother, Mrs. Dix, last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mautz and daughter,
and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of North Da
kota, were here visiting in Oregon.
Mr. Mautz, who has traveled a good
deal, and has been over the greater
part of the United States and Cuba,
thinks Oregon is O. K. They visited
with Mr. and Mrs. J. Putz at Colton
and then called, on old acquaintances
at Highland, where Mrs. Mautz lived
a number of. years ago. From there
they left for Portland to visit Mrs.
Mautz' brother. They intend to take
in Salem and visit other towns before
leaving for Canada, where the have
friends and relatives, and from there
they will return ' to their homes in
North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Mautz
will probably come back to Oregon
and make their home here.
A fine new bridge has been built
over the creek on the road between
Colton and Elwood.
Mr. John Jones' onions are looking
have
the drunkard,
and the
strong,
Cyrus Noble
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fine.
Several land buyers were at Colton
last week.
WILSONVILLE.
Mabel Tooze. of Oreeon CMtv and
Miss Louise Kemp of Woodburn, vis
ited friends in., Wilsonville on Tues
day. Mr. Goer, corresponding secretary
for the M. B. A. Lodge in this state,
was in town for a couple of days this
week. , '
Misses Bettie and Margaret Bat
algia went to Portland on Thursday
for a short visit with relatives.
The Rebekah Lodge meets every
Tuesday evening in the M. B. & A.
hall. -
Mrs. Walter Brown and children
have returned from McCoy, where
they have been visiting Mrs. Brown's
parents.
William Black went to Salem Fri-I
Way. - I
' Mrs. Brobst and daughter Mary
were in Portland on Saturday. 1
Mrs. Fred Walters, of Oregon City, 1
was m our village on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J.-.Melvin visited
their son and family here on Sunday.
The Wilsonville Club met with
Mrs. Aden on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mallory visited rela
tives here the last of the week.
Miss Helen, Murray went to her
home in Washington on Tuesday.
Miss Jessie Murray will keep house
for her brothers during Miss Murray's
absence. v
There will be services in the church
next Sunday as usual. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend.
Prof. Graham spent some time at
his farm near Wilsonville last week.
H. S. Aden was in Portland Mon
day on business.
Mrs. Black was in the Rose City on
Saturday.
Mr. Wall went to Portland on Fri
day. J. W. Thornton and Miss Wolburt
were Portland visitors on Friday.
Miss Mary Brobst has quite a large
class of music scholars.
Mrs. Henry Aden was a city visitor
on Wednesday.
The drug store is a great conven
ience and is a nice new building,
which improves Main St.
Miss Lois Melvin entertained nine
of her girl friends in a "delightful
manner on Tuesday afternoon in hon
or of her eighth birthday. The young
hostess was the recipient of many
Loose Leaf
Systems and Devices for
every kind of business
and profession. A 'phone
call will bring us, or, bet
ter still, come in and
view our modern plant.
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
three sworn enemies
man who craves rough,
high-proof whiskey
W. J. Van Schuyver & Co.,
beautiful gifts. ; A dainty repast was
served, game's were played and a
merry time was spent by the happy
guests.
The prize list for the district fair
should be in the hands of each family
resident here. If you have not already
received one, ask for one at any of
the stores, where Mrs. Marion has
left them for distribution. The fair
will be held on August 29th, and
should be a great success as Mrs.
Young has collected and worked most
diligently.
STAFFORD.
The weather has been very bad for
securing clover hay.
A traveler through Yamhill County
reports that there are hundreds of
acres in that county alone that are
already spoiled, a portion of it cut
and-other fields ctill standing or pros
trated by wind or rain, but at the
present writing the sun is shining
again and hope rises high in the
breast of the farmer. j
Adolph Delkar had the misfortune
to be kicked by one of his horses
Sunday morning,' the iron shod hoof
hitting him below the knee. At first
it was thought the bone was broken,
but Dr. Mount-was called and found
it to be a bad flesh wound. It appears
he was riding one horse and leading
the other, when it suddenly turned
and kicked in a playful mood with
disastrous result.
Mr. Nussbaum took a four horse
load of oats to town for Mr. Gage on
Wednesday 6140 lbs., quite a load
for one wagon.
A man who was working over in
what is called the Day neighborhood,
just over the line in Washington coun
ty, and who slept in a barn, was found
Monday, sick with a raging feyer. A
physician was called but the poor fel
low died about four o'clock. The cor
oner was sent for but we have not
heard the particulars yet.
Len Francis went to Mr. Gages'
Tuesday evening to execute a deed to
a proposed road Tillamook will build
along the edge of the land owned by
Mr. Gage. Mr. Francis is; a notary
public.
Mr. Powell bought a large load of
goods for his store Monday, includ
ing firecrackers and the average boy
is jubilant.
' The Younger Set of Stafford are
preparing for a picnic in tJages grove,
with swings, flags, croquet and other
games galore, and of course a dinner
in the shade.
Miss Lydia Aerni is helping her
younger sister keep house while the
mother takes a vacation and visits,
her old home at the foot of Mt. Adams.
The Ladies' Circle will meet with
Mrs. Seedling on the third Thursday
of this month.
heavy
Bottled at drinking strength
General Agents, Portland, Oregon
MARQUAM.
Guy C. Larkins of Marquam and
Velva Hertzel, of Scotts' Mills, were
married at eight o'clock, June 26th,
by Rev. Mr. Spencer of the ,M. E.
Church of Silverton. Many friends
of the young couple witnessed the
impressive ceremony. After the cer
emony and the congratulations were
ever, the guests, about one hundred in
number, partook of a delicious lunch
eon. The bride and groom left in an
automobile for Woodburn, thence by
train to Eugene, to be absent a week
or ten days. They received a large
number of useful and handsome gifts.
The bride is an accomplished musi
cian and the groom is a promising and
successful young school teacher ' of
Clackamas County.
-Marquam celebrated the Fourth of
July. The Marien band furnished the
music, the committee had the grounds
in excellent "condition and a good
time was had by all. "V
James Baker of Portland and Miss
Minnie Avry of Bridlevale Falls at
tended the wedding of their cousin,
G. C. Larkin.
Mrs. Jewel Marquam Knight was
calling on relatives and friends last
week.
The surveyors for the new line of
railroad from Canby via Molalla and
Marquam to Silverton, are camped a
few miles north of town.
Fred Meyers has just finished plant
ing 45 acres of potatoes.
Jaymeo & Company, of Mountain
Ridge has a lumber yard in our
town.
If it. hannpTKifl It ia in i tt-
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prise. -
If you saw it in the Enterprise it's
fsOCIAL DANCE :
at
C. Muralt's;
Maple Lane
Saturday, July 13
Everybody cordially in
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4-piece Orchestra
drinker