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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1912)
MORNING ENTERPRISE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1912 DELIGHTFUL PARTIES ARE GIVEN IN SANDY A birthday party was given in hon or of Percy T. Shelley at his new hall on Main street, Sandy, Friday evening, and card playing and danc ing were the chief amusements. Those present were: Mr .and Mrs. P. T. Shelley, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Talmage and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Es son and two children, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barendrick, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Junker, Mr. and Mrs. Deaton, Mr. and Mrs. George Bornstead and son, ' Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. Eckleson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bell, Messrs. Inch, M. R. and K. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Smith of Sandy, entertained at dinner Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Donahue and two children, Lola and Francis, of Boring Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barendick and two children, Ruth and Grace, and Melvin and Kenelm Smith. The oc casion was the birthday anniversary of Mr. Smith. Many Reforms Urged (Continued from page 2.) use of them for twelve months of the portion of the year? Why not make seven days in the week? Are they to be considered property of the board of education? Why not appropriate a sum or by voluntary subscription and conduct a gymnasium and ath letic games, free reading rooms and club rooms where paFents and child ren could spend their evenings togeth er on the rings, bars and tumbling mats, boxing, wrestling and basket ball? The ladies could also meet and have club meetings and discuss the differ ent social and political problems of the day. The young people could have debates, banquets and musical entertainments and minstrel shows produced by home talent. Why not develop the undiscovered talent now lost to society by the organization of neighborhood dramatic societies with orchestras, singing and musical clubs? We have no need of such libraries as the Laird of Skibo promotes which are largely a silent monument of the production of labor at starvation price but something that will establish a social center, as we all know the girl without a-social training is the moth er of woman on the street. Free en tertainments would eliminate the crowds of young men and women from the streets and saloons. The school basement could be given over to bowl ing, billiards and other play, a res taurant where the children could get their noon-day meal and where din ners could be given. Plenty of pri vate schools are being built along these lines and are making a success The schoolhouse should be the new town hail that bred the spirit of the Revolution previous to the battle of Lexington. In the schoolhouse we shall breed the orator and statesman of the future. The monotony 6f the day's work of the working man fills the saloon whose life would be barren were it not for the commercialized places of amusement. While time is spent in arguing our theories our boys and girls are going wrong. The school buildings are public property and why not use them to the I e vextent? The schoolhouse should be a kind of a city hall, a big club room, it is the natural place for a branch library and reading room. The working man cannot travel to the central library in the eveifng he is too tired and cannot afford the car fare, but a thousand little mes sengers who travel to and from the schoo! each day can bring the ifbra'y 1 k h0me- shu'l not the schoolhouse be used in any way the people see fit? Why should they not be the peoples' club houses, a place for all political meetings, republicans anyoCfrthSeand SCialiStS' and di any of the common political questions such a custom once established would be good for men and women and chSd- 2 "i7M b I00 Public mor als but it would be bad for graft in Wisconsin the people of any community can use tne schoolhouse by simply demanding it from the school authorities for any purpose they wish. Last winter the cUy of fver?Skatrf VC Hbrary every Saturday evening in the muni cipals auditorium. The music was best that C0UW obtained! People came regularly and were orderly and it was the red letter day of the week to thousands. There was some protest from the churches. The mayor met the objections and said we have come to compete with the Devil. ' It is gratifying to see Mr. McBain taking an active part and interest in his fellow men for the improving of their conditions, and is willing to aid his fellow laborers toward making them owners of their own homes at a nominal cost without any graft and in so doing is making them more con tented and happy laborers for his in terest. He is certainly beginning in the proper course by donating a public Playground. Let him now find the school house and in conjunction with the school board establish club meet ings and free entertainments produc ed by home talent and necessary rec reation facilities. He only needs to arrange for these conditions, then the community will conduct them them selves and give the necessary support they only want an oportunity of help ing and aiding themeslves and main taining their independence and self respect I hope to see the day when I may have the pleasure of congratu lating Mr. McBain on the success of his model community and he will real ize that his investment will prove prof itable, if not in a financial point of view, in a reward that is beyond a money consideration. If the ministers of our town would unite and discard all denominational prejudice and jealousy and work to gether in harmony on the lines of free public amusement and make them of a moral and elevating character so as to interest the masses who now seek Pleasure in forms that are not always creditable, when picture shows and , other amusements attract the masses more than church service, If Oregon City had a large auditorium sufficient to hold the peo ple and so constructed that moving picture shows of scriptural and moral character, of Bible scenes, accompan ied by descriptive lectures furnished by our local ministers, and all denom inations join in supporting and fur nishing such entertainments our whole people would become Bible students, and our younger generation would get a knowledge of Bible, his tory and character that with our pres ent methods are not supplying the necessary instruction and such free entertainments would compete so strongly with the Devil that our com mercialized places of amusement would be obliged to go out of business, such union services to be held regular ly, each denomination to retain their own individuality as the time is yet to previous for all denominations to join as one body in Christ but it will come and that will be the age of our millenium, when the sword shall be "beaten into plow shares and spears into pruning hooks. If our ministers would join a gymnasium or join a baseball or football team and get that necessary physical exercise their ser mons would have more force and ef fects but of course, sorry to say, we have no public playground or suita ble convenience for such. Mr. Rob inson is apparently interesting himself on those lines with our commercial club and live wires and why should not our other ministers and ladies' club take an active part. Henry Ward Beecher in the days of his greatest popularity realized the necessity of physical exercise, even between ser mons, and in place of getting it with plenty of fresh air and sunshine he had a pile of sand in the basement of his house which he shoveled over sev eral times for needed exercise, as if he had engaged in athletic sports, the greater part of his orthodox congre gation would have created a scandal. If ministers would take an active part in athletic sports there would be fewer nervous wrecks Monday morn ing. The political and social condi tions at present are somewhat deplor able and every sane person will ad mit that we are on the eve of a great revolution which only needs a suit able leader as "Joan of Arc" to ignite the smouldering coals into a burning flame. With our political and econo mical management selling peoples' rights and privileges to corporations and then be imposed upon. When con ditions are such in places that teach ers are obliged to pay a certain por tion of their salary to grafting direct ors in order to be employed and re tained in employment and men have to divide part of their earnings with grafting foremen of our industrial institutions in order to obtain and continue employed it is time we rais ed up in rebellion against the present condition of affairs. But it is to be hoped it will not be of the nature of the French revolution in the days of Robespiere, when blood filled the gut ters, but that a leader of the masses may come forth to regulate present conditions of affairs in an amicable manner. But one thing is certain if ever great reforms are produced it will have to come from the common people as in the days of King John, of England who was forced to sign the great Magna Charter of equal treat ment .by people who could not even write their own names and demanded justice. Who knows if the investiga ting inquisition were set in operation would our officials whom the public has elected to their offices of trust and honor, would they be willing to give a panoramic view to be exposed and criticised? I presume our worthy council con siders they have done their duty in giving the people an opportunity of expressing their desires by ballot in establishing a swimming pool, public playground and other public features, but nevertheless our wily politicians made certain that none of the bene ficiaries could be had without putting the control of the necessary funds into the hands of a few political as pirants and Rev. Robinson may con sider himself made a scapegoat of. Why could not each proposition have been voted on separately on its own merits and given the people an oppor tunity of expressing their choice? Our worthy council will now rest at ease, but is our commercial club, live wire and ladies' club, who have taken the initiative on these lines sat isfied with the manipulation of the peoples' rights? If so the people of Oregon City should rise up in rebel lion and exercise their rights by the use of the initiative and recall. The people of Oregon City are ready to take up arms against our present manipulation of their rights. All that is necessary is for competent leader to proclaim the war cry and the peo ple will suport the cause and it really does ppear that the time is at hand when equal suffrage should be de manded so that our public administra tion would be purged of its corrupt ness by the more pure and honest in fluence of our grand and noble women If, by expressing these views of mine, and with the aid of the press can influence others in taking up these lines of thought I hope to be fully recompensed and hope some writer of more force will take up the pen which is more powerful than the sword and through the press educate the people to a realization of their own powers. A READER. Expected the Usual Results. At provincial theaters in France when opera is given It is not uncom mon for untried tenors to submit themselves to the ' public judgment, which is usually hostile. One of these obscure songsters presented himself and sung the first act He did not make a' "hit" He retired to his dress ing room, took off his makeup and was preparing to go home when the man ager appeared. "What!", he cried. "You are not dressed for the second act, and the curtain is just going up! Thousand thunders!" "The- second act?" said the tenor placidly. "I can not sing the second act. I don't know the second act. Whenever I sing I am always kicked out after the first" Rossini's Memory. Rossini's memory was lacking In re tentiveness, especially Id respect to the names of persons who bad been introduced to him. This forgetfulness was frequently, a cause of amusement whenever Rossini was among compa ny. One day he met Bishop, the Eng lish composer. Rossini knew tne face well enough and at once greeted him. "Ah, my dear Mr." but the name es caped his memory, and to convince him that he had not forgotten him Rossini began whistling Bishop's lee. "When the Wind Blows," compliment which "the English Mozart," as Bishop had been dubbed, recognized quite as readi ly as If his ecclesiastical surname had been mentioned. JOHNSON IS SLATED FOR SECOND MOOSE (Continued from page 1) apple tree, as we go marching on." "The root of the wrongs," continued the speaker, "which hurt the people is. the fact that the people's govern ment has been taken away from them. Their government must be given back to the people. And so the first pur pose of the Progressive party is to made sure the rule of the people. The rule of the people means that the peo ple themselves shall nominate, as well as elect, all candidate for office, in cluding Senators and Presidents of the United States." Beveridge said American business is uncertain and unsteady compared with the business of other nations. "What then," he asked, "must we do to make American business better? We must do what other nations have done. We must end the abuses of business by striking down those abus es, instead of striking down -business itself. We must try to make little business big and all business honest instead of striving to make big busi ness little and yet letting it remain dishonest. As the Sherman law now stands, no two business men can ar range their mutual affairs and be sure that they are not law breakers. Un der the decrees of the courts, the oil and tobacco trusts still can raise pric es unjustly and already have done so." The speaker declared the Progres sive party will accomplish reforms vi tal to American business. "We mean to put new business laws on our statute books,' said he "which will tell American business men what they can do and what they cannot do. The next great business reform we must have to steadily increase Ameri can prosperity js to change the meth od of building our tariffs. The tariff must be taken out of politics and treat ed as a business question instead of as a political question. "The greatest need of business is certain but the only thing certain about our tariff is uncertainty. Next to our need to make the Sherman law modern, understand able, and just, our greatest fiscal need is a genuine, permanent, non-partisan tariff commission. "A tariff high enough to give Amer ican producers the American market when they make honest goods and sell them at honest prices but low enough so when they sell dishonest goods and at dishonest prices foreign competi tion can correct both evils; a tariff high enough to enable American pro ducers to pay our workingmen Amer ican wages and so arranged that the workingen will get such wages; a business tariff whose changes will be so made as to reassure business instead of disturbing it this is the tariff and the methods of its making in which the Progressive party be lieves. "The Payne-Aldrich law must be re vised immediately, In addition to these principles.' Abolition of child labor in factor ies, mines and sweatshops and a plan for old age pensions were included in the progressive platform by the speaker, who incidentally favored wo man suffrage. "Never doubt that we will solve In righteousness and wisdom every vex ing problem," said Beveridge toward the conclusion of his address. Desperate. "I believe Mr. Blank will propose to our Edith tonight" "What makes you think that?" "I noticed when he came in he had a sort of desperate look." Meggendorfer Blatter. Oregon Agricultural College This great institution opens its doors for the fall semester on September 20th. Courses of instruction include: General Agriculture, Agronomy, Ani mal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Path ology, Poultry Husbandry, Horticul ture, Entomology, Veterinary Science, Civil Engineering Electrical Engineer ing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Domestic Science, Do mestic Art, Commerce, Forestry, Phar macy, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, English Language, and Literature, Public Speaking, Modern Language, History, Art, Architecture, Industrial Pedagogy, Phyiscal Educa tion, Military Science and Tactics, and Music. , Catalogue and illustrated literature mailed free on application. Address: Registrar, Oregon Agricultural Col lege, -Corvallis, Oregon. School Year Opens September 20th. FIFTY-FIRST Oregon. State FAIR Salem, Sept. 2 - 7, 1912 $18000 Offered in premiums on Livestock, Poultry, Agri cultural and other products Races, Dog Show, Shooting Tourna ment, Band concerts,' Fireworks and Free Attractions'. : : : Send for Premium list and entry blanks. Reduced rates on all railroads. For particulars address FRANK MEREDITH, Sec ' Salem, Oregon. TACOMATIGERS WIN FIRST FROM BEAVERS PORTLAND, Aug. 5., ' (Special.) Tacoma took the measure of Witt iams' men today by a score of 3 to 2. The Tacoma team wUs bolstered with several . new players and played good ball from start to finish. Both teams scored twice in the first in ning. The results Monday follow: Northwestern League Standings. W. L. P.C, Vancouver 62" 49 .566 Spokane . 61 48 .560 Seattle 60 52 .538 Portland 52 58 .473 Victoria .-49 60 .450 Tacoma 47 66 .416 At Portland Tacoma 3, Portland 2 At Vancouver Victoria 3, Vancouv: er 1. At Seattle Spokane 4, Seattle 1. National League Boston 10, Cincinnati 2. St. Louis 8, Brooklyn 4. Pittsburg 8, New York 4. Chicago 5-5, Philadelphia 2-3. , American League Detroit 4, New York 2. St. Louis 12, Philadelphia 4. Cleveland 2, Boston 1. Washington 8, Chicago 7. . PAVING LAID 10 YEARS AGO SUR- PRISES ENGINEER That On I Street Supposed to Have Two-Inch Surface Has Six-Inch To have paving laid with a two-inch wearing surface stipulated, and to find the same paving 10 years later, on its removal, to be from four to six inches thick, is the unusual experi ence of city engineers in the case of the North I Street bitulithic. ' The paving, removed to make way for the wider street has ben found by City Engineer Raleigh to be in good con dition. The reason for the thickness of the paving is not due to accumulated dust as some have hazarded or to ex pansion, but to the fact that the bit ulithic people in putting the paving In added several inches more than was required Tacoma News. The Tu-key Buzzard. So acute is the turkey buzzard's sense of smell that it can scent food forty miles away. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS W. E. Hauser by E. .P. Drinker, at torney to J. S. McKinney, 12 acres, section 12, township & south, range 1 west; $1. W. E. Hauser by E. P. Drinker, at torney to J. S. McKinney, 10 acres, section 12, township 3 south, range 1 west; $1. . Maggie and Inkerman Davis to Chas" A. Hines, 30 acres of right of way, township 2 south, range 3 east; $13, 000. The Glenmorrie Co. to Geo. B. Guth rie, easterly half of block 37 Glenmor rie Park; $1860. The Glenmorrie Co. to Geo. B. Guth rie, westerly half of block 37, Glen morrie Park; $1860. Geo. B. Guthrie to Wilmot A. and Sybil L. Danielson, block 37, Gelnmor rie Park; $1860. J. E.. and Ida E. Carter to Henry Henine, north half of southeast quart er, section 22, township 4 south, range 4 east, SO acres; $10. Ellen M. Rockwood to Sarah A. Bur ley, lot 20, block 10, Ardenwald; $350. Clara M. and L. L Pickens and John B. and Florence Lewthwaite to West ern Improvement Co., 19,500 square feet in D. L. C. of Hugh Burns town ship 2 south, range 2 east, quit claim ; $1. Portland General Electric Co. to Why eeiD Electric Irons Electric Toaster Electric Table Lamps And Electric Appliances Of Every Description Will Help Solve the Problem Let Us Show You. The Portland Railway Light & Power Co. Carry a foil line at their local office on MAIN STREET in the BEAVER BLDG. Western Improvement Co ., part of D. L. C. of Hugh Burns, township 2 south range 2 east; $1. William J. and Jennie Alexander to Geo. S. Geis, lot 7, of block 97, second subdivision of Oak Grove; $3000. Calvin L. and Ethel Alice McGahu ey to William M. and Edith Bruce, south half of northeast quarter, and northeast quarter of southeast quar ter, section 35, and southeast quarter of southeast quarter, section 16, town ship33 north, range 14 east, 160 acres; $1. Daniel F., James V. and Eleanor R. Lehigh to Roy Clark,' lotsl to 8, in clusive , block 177, Oregon City, quit claim; $10. William F. and Lotta Lehigh to Roy Clark, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, block 177, Oregon City, quit claim; $10. Hazel Tooze to G. G. and M. A. Mc Clure, northeast quarter of northeast quarter, section 34, township 4 south, iLoose 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 Not Coo range 2 east and a 24 foot strip; $30. John S. Smith and Lois F. Smith to L. A. Armstrong, tract in Oak Grove; $1. L. E. and Mattie C. Armstrong to Eva H. Dye trustee, tract in Oak Grove; $1. Thomas H. and Kate Feathers to G. A. and Alice M. Hobbs, 40 acres, section 7, township 2 south, range 3 east; $10. Thomas H. and Kate Feathers to G. A. and Alice M. Hobbs, 40 acres, section 7, township 2 south, range 3 east; $10. , y H. P. and Bessie L. Parker to S. E. Heiple, lot 3, block 9, Zobrist addition to Estacada; $60. H. O. and Nina J. Noyde to Security State Bank of Woodburn, 66.75 acres township 6 south, range 1 east; $10. Geo. L. and Amanda E. Winerell to L. L. Woodrome, 5 acres D. L. C, of Hezikiah and Eliza Johnson, sec JLea,: ? tion 22, township 2 south, range 2 east; $1500. C. T. and Mary S. Howard to Edna Anderson, lots 1 to 5 inclusive, block 13, lots 8, 10, 11, block 15, lot 10, block 16 lot 5 block 9, Mulino; $1475. Harvey H. and Lucy M. Hilton to Carl E. Hilton 20 acres township 5 south, range 1 east; $1. Wilhelmina and IJdwin Hilton to Harvey H. Hilton, 20 acres, township 5 south, range 1 east; $1. Wilhelmina and Edwin Hilton to Carl E. Hilton, tract in section 1 32, township 4 south, range 1 east; $1. Wilhelmina and Edwin Hilton to Inez I. Hilton, tract in section 32, township 4 south, range 1 east; $1. John H. and Rosalind Gibson to Jon as Trefren, lot 3, Gibson's subdivision of tracts 10, 11, 12 and 13, and west 480 feet of tracts 1 and 2 of Logus tracts in D. L. C. of George Wiils; $800. 5