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.
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Mathematics, English Language, and
Literature, Public Speaking, Modern
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Industrial Pedagogy, Phyiscal Educa
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lege, -Corvallis, Oregon.
School Year Opens September 20th.
FIFTY-FIRST
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FAIR
Salem, Sept. 2 - 7,
1912
$18000
Offered in premiums on
Livestock, Poultry, Agri
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Races, Dog Show,
Shooting Tourna
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Fireworks and Free
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Send for Premium list and
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' 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,:
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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.
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