MORNING ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912
A SINGLE
TAX
K 1
V DILEMMA
,''"' By
'- - ELNA PAULSEN
I came into a biggish town
'Twas big in point of size,
I met a melancholy clown
With misery in his eyes.
"Good sir," quoth I, and glanced
about,
"What ails the town and you,
Is everyone vacationing,
And have they naught to do?"
He fixed his mournful eyes on me,
And sadly shook his head
I glanced at all who wandered past
And in their faces read
Despair 'Twas plainly written thero
That all who ran might read,
"Good sir," cried I, "Pray answer me
To my demands give heed.
"The town is big, but empty quite
And when I last was here
The streets were swarming day ani
night"
The native shed a tear.
"Why, stranger, have you never
heard
What happened here of late?
Upon the last election day
We held within this state?
"No! you shall hear the story now,
He cried with loosened tongue;
From one who witnessed all the row
row
And saw how it begun.
"You see, the Single Taxer men
Accomplished their design
And I have lost unto the state
The farm that once was mine.
"And when I've earned a little cois
I'll hie me to a train
And leave this town far, far behind.
And ne'er come back again."
This tale they told me far and wide..
The reason now I knew
For hopelessness on every side,
As towns more empty grew.
"The outcome of the Single Tax, .
Or tax on land alone,
Which puts all on land-owners' backs'
They answered with a moan.
'Twas sad to see the once strong
heart,
Into hopelessness relax,
And to know that all the wrong thus
done,
Was caused by single tax.
THE NEW
IREVALA-
TION
By
DEAN COLUNS
U'Ren, the Moses of the modern day,
Hath lifted to High Fels, his mystic
eye,
And heralds forth the latest message
gleaned
From solemn Oregon City's , Sinai ;
Letting us wandering, baffled tribes
men know
That which should fill ua with
sublime elation
That U'Ren, who hath led us on so
long,
Hath doped us out a new tax
revelation.
Far - had we wandered, 'neath th'
Egyptian code
Of private ownership of land, which
founded
The base of all our state's prosperity
And "led to growth, with certainty
surrounded.
Fondly we dreamed of greater, sta
bler growth;
But a new vision to the Seer ap
pearing. Leads him to warn us that the
promised land
Lies farther on, in Single Taxer's
clearing.
Neath the old code, by U'Ren sup
plemented, We wandered on, well guided In the
light time
By bright cloud castles, and also
conducted
By pillars of hot air within the
night time.
Now he would cast those table's down
and bust them,
Whereon Is graved our present tax
ing system,
And carve anew his Fels-inspired
commandment
The latest revelation of his wisdom.
"
Oh, "Moses," we have followed you
some seasons,
And were beginning to learn how
to take them
The laws by which you strove to
lead from Egypt,
But now. alack, you're planning to
remake them.
Some of the dope you carried to
adoption
Might, after all, be quite the part
of wisdom,
But the thin soup of Single Tax doth
drive me
To hug the fleshpots of our pres
ent system.
Imagination Needed Massage.
W. D. Howells once said of a certain
popular novelist:
"There is about as much poetry In
him as there is In McMasters. McMas
tersou know, was walking with a
beautiful girl in a wild New England
wood.
" 'What is your favorite flower, Mr.
McMasters?' the girl asked softly.
"McMasters thought a moment, then
cleared his throat and answered:
"'Well, I believe I like the whole
wheat best'" -
SCHAEFER AND ALTROCK
FUNNY" COMBINATION.
a "Germany" Schaefer and Nick
T Altrock are a great combination
and are cutting considerable ice
with their funny stuff on the
road with the Washington club.
Altrock joined the club in Cleve
land and was met at the door of
the hotel by Tom Hughes, the
pitcher, - who inquired: "Say,
Nick, what was the matter with
4 you in Kansas City? Was your
arm sore?" "No, indeed." re-
plied Nick "My arm is all right,
but the bats are getting too big.".
For several seasons Altrock has
X always bad a lot of trick stuff
with the first base mitt. His new
stunt Is stopping the thrown
ball with the mitt, letting it roll
x up one arm and around his
shoulders and back into the oth
X er hand.
tt 'I J J' tf J J 'J $ 3
COBB WANTS $6,000 RAISE.
Will Demand $45,000 For His Next
Three Years' Work.
Taking into consideration his worth
as a drawing card, as well as his
ability as a ball player, Ty Cobb is
going to demand $45,000 for his next
three years' work with the Detroit club.
This is Cobb's last year under the
$27,000 contract which he signed three
years ago, and he admits that he is
going after a substantial increase, just
how much he will not say.
Cobb is just as good a player as he
was three years ago, and his value as
Photo by American Press Association.
TT COBB IN HUMOBOTTS MOOD.
an attraction has increased consider
ably. Being with a losing team has
handicapped his playing to some ex
tent, but there is no doubt that as an
individual Cobb pulls at least $30,000
into the coffers of the Detroit club dur
ing a season.
There are other players possessed
of drawing ability, but none of them is
equal to Tyrus, and this, he says, must
be taken into consideration when the
new contract is made.
SCHALK COSTLY BALL PLAYER
Chicago White Sox Paid $15,000 For
Milwaukee Boy.
The deal whereby Ray Schalk, . the
Milwaukee association team catcher,
goes to the old Roman Comiskey, own
ttf of the Chicago Americans, for ap
proximately $15,000 is the second lar
gest in the history of baseball where
an individual was concerned. Marty
O'Toole cost the record sum of $22,500,
and he has so far proved a good invest
ment. Schalk, competent critics say, is
a wonderful player and will prove
wrth the sum paid for him. It is a
womfcrfgi, jrice to pay for a player
other than fil'vrher.
Schalk is rath.;? Uttle fellow, weigh
ing 150 pounds fciid. toeing five feet
eight inches high. Bi)t he has a deadly
Just Heard the Goods News
uiTH, Jack, I just heard the good news of
JI your appointment and I couldn't wait to
write my congratulations. We are all
delighted over it. When
You can put real feeling into your congratu
lations over the Bell Telephone.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co,
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station
aim and is hitting over .3007 Being but
twenty years of age he has a long
period of usefulness In front of him,
barring accidents. .
RIVERS TO FIGHT MAND0T.
Mexican Lightweight to Tackle South
erner In Vernon, Cal., Labor Day.
Joe Rivers, the Mexican lightweight,
will meet Joe Mandot in a twenty
round bout at Vernon, Cal., on Labor
Day. Rivers has decided to remain
on the coast until late in the fall in
stead of paying a visit to New York.
He. owes his success to Tom McCarey
and prefers to box under his auspices
as long as profitable matches are in
sight
Rivers says he hopes Wolgast will
consent to a return match at Vernon
on Thanksgiving Day, but if the lat
ter should decline the issue the Mexi
can then will accept an offer to box
either Willie Ritchie or Packey Mc
Farland in Madison Square Garden
some time in December. Rivers has
made nearly $40,000 in the last two
years.
eart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE.
' THE TRESPASSER.
In a New York tenement where 25
cents for the gas meter is a problem
and rent day is a tragedy a poor wo
man drew on her meager savings of
dimes and pennies to summon a doctor
for her baby, whose suffering was In
tense. - The doctor said the babe must have
the fresh air of the parks.
Whereupon the mother took the child
to Central park, which, valued by finan
ciers as worth a billion dollars, belongs
to the people of New York.
She saw an unoccupied lawn and
took her baby there. Mother and child
lay down upon the grass in the shade
and soon were both asleep.
Scarcely were the slumbers begun
than the majesty of the law appeared.
A park policeman awoke the tired
mother, worn by the sleepless nights
in the hot tenement, and demanded her
name and address. He placed her un
der arrest and notified her to appear
aaxt morning in the court
Terrlitefi and weary, the poor mother
went bacm io the stuffy, noisome
"home" to another sleepless
night - v
In the morning tbe left her baby
with a neighbor and .appeared before
the magistrate, where she confessed to
the heinous crime of trespassing on the
people's premises. "
The court fined her $1.
Weeping, -the woman said the doc
tor's bill had taken .all her savings,
whereupon she was remanded to jail.
As she started to go with the police
man a probation officer who had wit
nessed the trial interfered and pleaded
with the court to remit the fine,which
the court did, but sternly remarked
that the law must be enforced.
The probation officer afterward took
the matter up with the park commis
sioner, who commended the park po
liceman for the arrest
Well
Possibly the requirement to "keep
off the grass" is proper and there must
be a penalty.
.But just the same
Mercy and discretion are never out
of place. Surely should the future his
torian of the first quarter of the twen
tieth century come across this story of
how a poor mother with a sick baby
was arrested for trespassing in a park
owned by the people and remanded to
Jail he will pause and moralize on the
subtle cruelty of the age.
Loses His Grit
"Isn't that fellow ever going to pro
pose?" .
"I guess not He's like an hour
glass." "How's thatr
"The more time he gets the less sand
he has."-St Paul Pioneer Press.
Fraternal Fractions.
Lodger My brother is coming on a
visit . Have you a couple of spare
cots? Landlady A couple! Is he so
big as all that? Lodger No, but you
see the fact is, he really consists of
two half brothers. Boston Transcript
If it happened it is In the Enter
prise. are you coming over?"
News of Willamette
Hop Pickers
INDEPENDENCE, Sept. 2, (Spe
cial.) The I. A. Morrison special ar
rived at Independence on time with
the hoppickers from Willamette. Four
wagons with hap racks took the bag
gage out to the yards. O. Larsen got
the first corner lot "and after getting
his tent set and everything in tip op
shape sarted to Work picking at a rate
of about six boxes a day.
Leo Larsen is a close second. Frank
Oliver has promised to keep all saws
filed and knives sharpened even if he
has to work over time.
Charles Andrews is looking after
the mail for the whole camp. He at
tended the mail carriers' convention.
Mrs. Waldron carries water and
splits wood and helps keep the pick
ers in good humor.
Mr. Richardson and daughter secur
ed one of the finest locations on the
qjain street and are keeping every
body supplied with beans.
The baby of Mr. Lutes has a bad
cold.
Albert Runyan and mother are
snugly located in a fine grove and Al
bert expects to lead from the first tap
of the bell.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvert are here and
Mr. Calvert is supplyn several yards
with Willamette grown potatoes. He
expects also in case of an election to
be mayor of Hopville.
Dr. Sizer and family camped close
to the first row and expect to be first
out and last in, and also attend to the
health of everybody.
Hops are fine.
Disputed Authority.
There is a story told of Drs. Chal
mers and Stewart, who argued on the
street corner on some knotty point of
theology with Scottish pertinacity un
til it was time to separate, when one
of them remarked, "You will find my
views very well put in a certain tract,"
of which he gave the title, upon which,
to his surprise, bis antagonist replied,
"Why, I wrote that tract myself."
Agriculture In Great Britain.
Out Of SR.7fffl.na4 nnroa the, tntal coo
' . - - . , 1 . . V. HI LU
of Great Britain, only 9.000,000 are un
used for agricultural purposes.
I am a power for great good if you do not
In cases of need I do my work well.
I am a builder up of health and strength
or in the' home. r
For the invalid or the convalescentfor the tired or over
worked I offer a great help.
A little of me goes a long way.
I have been among you for three generations.
MANY CHILDREN WIN
PRIZES AT FAIR
The following were the prize win
ners at the juvenile fair held in Can
by last week: -Best
General Exhibit
First Union Hall. '
Second Macksburg. -
Third Canby.
Best Individual Exhibit.
First John Robbins, Union Hall. '
Second Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Feild Corn, Class A.
First Rufus Kraxberger, Macks
burg. Second Melvin Mahlum, Canby.
Field Corn, Class B
First Frank Stevens, Macksburg.
Second Edward Doegril,. Barlow.
Sweet Corn, Class A
' First Eddie Wilkerson, Union Hall.
Second Walter Keesling, Macks
burg. Class B.
First Myrtle Burns, Union Hall.
Second Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Ppp Corn, Class A.
First Ernest Reese Canby.
Class B.
First Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Second FredieJ Goeble, Aurora,
Muskmelons Class B
First Harold Vinyard, Canby. 1
Squash, Class A.
First Lewis Mitts, Needy.
Class B.'
John Robbins, Union Hall.
Second Fred: Ganske, Macksburg.
Watermelons" (
First Rudy Harms, Macksburg.
Class B.
First Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Potatoes, Class A and B. A. M. Won
ders. First Frank Stevens, Macksburg.
Class A
First Eddie Wilkerson .Union Hall
Potatoes, Class B
First Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Pumpkins, Class A
First Ruby Harms, Macksburg.
Class B
First Sam Mark, Needy.
Second Harold Vinyard, Canby.
Cabbage, Class A
First Elsie Kraxberger, Macksburg.
I'm known as Cyras Noble
W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., General
Unqualifiedly the Best
LEDGER-
The De Luxe Steel Back J
New improved CURVED HINGE
allows the covers to drop back on the desk
without throwing the "leaves into a curved
position.
Sizes 8 1-4 to 20 inches ,
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
Headquarters for
Loose Leaf Systems.
Class B
First Arabella Goeble, Aurora.
Second Earl Burns, Union Hall.
Tomatoes, Class A
First Rufus Kraxberger " Macks
burg. -Class
B
First Robert Newton, Canby. y
Celery, Class A
First John Robbins, Union Hall.
Grain Selection, Class A
First Walter Keesling, Macksburg.
Bird Houses, Class A
First John Robbins, Union 'Hall.
Second Earl Burns, Union Hall.
Canned Fruit, Class A
First Hazel Keesling, Macksburg.
Second Bertha Borche, Macksburg.
Class B
First Inice Keesling, Macksburg.
Second Eva Whipple, Canby.
Loaf Bread Class A
First Lillies Harms, Macksburg.
' Second Vurness Reese, Canby.
Mechanical Toys, Class A
First Earl Harms, Macksburg.
' Second Muriel Bissell, Canby.
Piece Furniture, Class A
First Walter Keesling, Macksburg,
Second Norbert Broeren, Barlow.
Class B
First Chaffer Newton, Canby.
Labor Saving Device
First J. Christensen, Canby.
Loaf Bread, Class B
First Dorma Haines, Canby.
Second Sarah Wilkerson, Union
Hall.
Mending, Class A
First - Kate Haims, Macksburt.
Second Myrtle Oats, Canby.
Darning, Class A
First Lillie Harms, Macksburg.
Apron, Class A
First Vera Lorenz Macksburg.'
Second Elsa Kraxberger, Macks
burg. Class B, Aprons
First Edna Phelps.
Dresses, Class A
First Vera Lfcrenz, Macksburg.
Class B v-
First Edna Phelps.
Asters, Class A.
First Kate Harms, Macksburg.
Class B.
First Robert Newton, Canby.
Sweet Peas, Class A
First Lillie Harms, Macksburg.
Loaf Cake, Class Ai
First Bertha Boeche, Macksburg.
Class B.
First Marion Evans, Barlow. .
Second Myrtle Bwins, Union Hall.
Best Piece of Fancy Work
First Marie Bowers, Macksburg.
throughout the world.
Agents, Portland, Oregon
Chickens, Class A.
First Walter Keesling, Macksburg.
Second Gladys Thompson.
Class B.
First Ralph Koehler, Canby.
Second Remonia Kinney, Macks
burg. Special Best P. R. Cockerel
First Tom Carleton.
Ducks, Class A
First Grover Harms, Macksburg.
Class B.
First John Robbins, Union Hall.
Second Wm. Wehner, Macksburg.
Watkins Special
First Herman Etzel, Macksburg.
Wheat, Class A and B
First Melvin Mahlum, Canby.
Cake, Watkin's Special
First Inice Keesling, Macksburg.
Layer Cake, Class A
First Bertha Boeche, Macksburg.
Second Elsa Kraxberger, Macks
burg. Class B
- First Leona Parmenter, Barlow.
Second Myrtle Bwins, Union HalL
Third Lillian Condit, Canby.
Special Mention
Cora Reese; apron.
Irene Malanima, piece of fancy
work.
Anna Stefni, cushion.
Charles Dregnil, China peas.
Jenny Thompson, Jabot.
Irene Wurfel, Crochet Hood and
Bootee.
Mattie Kessling, Summer squash.
Rudolph Etzel, 10 Wondes A. M.
potatoes.
Julia Nerbow, bedspread.
Oswald Kraxberger, Summer
squash.
Sarah Wilkerson, Bantams.
Lena Kummer, Center piece.
Alford Boeche, popcorn.
Erich, Boeche, millet
Walburger Kraxberger Cabbage.
Alan Hutchinson, Bantams.
Dow Hutchinson, Bantams.
Oscar Hills, a family of Buff Ban
tams. . Harry Roming, tomatoes.
Clifton Marks, popcorn.
Orvil Marks, Bantams.
Clyde Lorenz, R. I. Cockerel.
Walter Murtz, Buff Orphintgon
cockerel.
Dora, Goeble, Onions.
Lizzie Goeble, Carrots.
Arabella Goeble, 1 box wonder to
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
abuse my use.
in the hospital
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