OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
By Gross
HMRY JRSAYSl
" PAW PUT
MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E. E. BRODIE
Editor and Publisher
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EFFICIENCY American methods are slipshod and careless. William
IN BUSINESS Whittam, one of the leading cotton manufacturers of New
England has thrown this fact into the fact of the other business men of the
country in one of the most straight-from-the-shoulder talks that the cotton
association heard at its conference.
He believes "that the tariff will not injure the manufacturers of the coun
try if they wake up and use modern and more up-to-date methods of handling
their business. He thinks that the difference in the cost of production at
home and abroad can be materially cut by scientific management in the fact
ories. Useless waste of time and energy, old models of machinery, poor fact
ories and fire traps for buildings are some of the things that throw the Ameri
can maker behind his European competitor.
The American business man need not fear the competition of the maker
across the water if he is prepared to meet that competition. The enterprise
of the dealer on this side of the Atlantic has always been one of the interest
ing facts of our business. He has taken advance steps in the making of goods
and has adopted new forms and methods in his business. At the same time,
he is not even yet progressive enough to keep apace with the times and the
competition that he will have to meet when the tariff wall is taken down and
the goods of the countries of the world enter the United States with a smaller
duty than they have had for the last 50 years.
The most up-to-date manufacturers of the country are of the opinion that
the tariff will not materially injure their business if they take advantage of
the new ideas of efficiency in the management of their business enterprises.
Scientific management means the difference between profit and loss in manu
factories. It now means that the maker does not get the profit that he
should even with the prospect of additional competition from the makers of
the old world. ,
In every business house, from the largest of the country's" factories to the
smallest store, the principle of scientific management is one that should con
cern every owner and every manager of a business enterprise.
""" In different foctories, the problems that confont the.managers are differ
ent. The solution must be worked out by each man in his own sphere. But,
in a general way, there are things that may be done to cut down the cost of
production and to minimize the expense for operation that should apply to all
concerns, from the largest to the smallest.
Americans have been generally noted for their wastefulness. This ap-
Gne House Legislature Would
Give Us Fewer and
Better Laws
Composed
of
Sixteen
Members
By GEORGE H.
HODGES
Elected
on
Nonpartisan
Ballot '
Governor of
Kansas
THE session laws of Kansas for 1913 is a book of f94 pages and con
tains 376 laws and resolutions. The legislature was in session forty
nine days, consequently something like seven laws passed both
houses each day.
' It is hardly possible for a member to read SEVEN ENACTMENTS
A DAY, and it is an impossibility for him to comprehend and under
stand them.
One of the stock arguments in favor of the bicameral system is that
the second chamber is a valuable check on bad legislation because there
are two bodies through which the bill must pass. From personal legisla
tive experience I know how FARCICAL this contention is.
'" I proposed to the Kansas legislature the substitution for the present
system of a ONE HOUSE LEGISLATURE, CONSISTING OF NOT
TO EXCEED SIXTEEN MEMBERS. One-half of them might be
elected from districts and one-half of them at large, or they might all
be nominated by districts and elected at large, with PROVISIONS FOR'
RECALL AND THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. These
legislators should be elected for TERMS OF FOUR YEARS EACH,
with provision for expiration in rotation in order to secure stability and
experience.
I further believe that these legislators should be nominated and
elected upon a NONPARTISAN BALLOT.
IN MY JUDGMENT SUCH A LEGISLATURE AS I AM ADVOCAT
ING WOULD GIVE US FEWER BUT BETTER LAWS; IT WOULD GIVE
US LAWS THAT. NEED LESS INTERPRETATION FROM THE COURTS
AND ACCORDINGLY GIVE US LESS LITIGATION. - IT WOULD BE
REPRESENTATIVE.
plies not only to the lavish extravagances of our rich or to the, wanton dis
regard of the use of wealth that characterises-those, on the higher planes of
life, but also to our business men and our business enterprises.
Though many of the country's monopolies have adopted some of the
principles of scientific management that.places them ahead of what competit
ors they have and that gives them a general control of the business of their
field, there are.still many things to be done, even by them, that would' cut
down the production cost and increase the efficiency, and consequently the
revenues, that the production of goods return. Revenues are increased or de
creased by! the use or disuse of the efficiency plan in the factory or store.
Wastefulness cuts revenues, increases production cost, raises the retail price,
and reduces the number of sales.
Oftentimes a business man will find that he can sell the same goods
cheaper than a competitor by reducing the waste in his system of manage
ment and by cutting out the duplication of effort that is so frequently found
around a business enterprise of any kind. . .
The problems that the tariff has' raised to the manufacturer will be min
imized if the advice of William Whittam is followed to the letter and the
efficiency system employed in all industries from those that use thousands of
men and handle millions of capital to those that are almost one man affairs
and transact but a small amount of business.
In the long run, efficiency pays. System pays. Scientific management
pays, it solves proDiems ana cuts out worries ana it is a principle that any
business man can profitably use. .
NEW BUNGALOW
Vt story plastered house, full
basement, hot and cold water,
bath and toilet built in kitchen ;
barn and chicken house; lot 100
xlOO; fruit of all kinds; good
lawn; 1 block from car line.
$2200.00, part cash, balance on
time. -
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
cles published -as well as in private
letters between myself and some of
the parties interested, I expressed the
desire to place any ' matter between
us, private .and public, before a com
mittee and that their findings shall be
published. So far this offer- has not
been accepted.
The ministers or any one of them
will run no risk in comparing private
and public life with any who attack
them. I await an answer from the
editor.
HENRY SPfESS,
ELECTRICAL WORK
Contracts, Wiring and Fixtures
WE DO IT
Miller-Parkier Co.
CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Tree s, Roses and Shrubbery for sale at the
new green houses at Third and Center Streets. Funeral work done
at lowest possible prices. Orders received over phone Main 251.
II. J. BIGGER
TWO NEW ROADS
FOR CALIFORNIA
THE SPREAD Coincidences are contantly presenting themselves, and
OF SCIENCE often to the confusion of the inept or the insincere. The
same day brings us two remarkable pieces of news testifying -to the advance
of science in dietetics. Men have just been discovered who are thriving on
eggs kept for three years in cold storage and found, at the end of jhat time,
to be more palatable and more nutritious than the fresh egg of commerce.
And a returning missionary from New Guinea announces, after a long ob
servation of and familiarity with the habits of cannibals, that they prefer the
white meat of -white men only after it has been held in storage long enough
to have destroyed the flavor of salt, and the other spices and condiments with
which men of the white race are wont to saturate their flesh. The cannibals,
it is announced, much prefer eating a colored, person to any one of us. The
darker flesh is not permeated with the tang of the sharp appetizers to which,
civilization has accustomed the Caucasian. Accordingly, in time of scarcity,
w hen there is nothing but white meat to be had, the cannibals put it in stor
age, and keep it there long enough for the objectionable flavors to disappear.
Science is making steady advances not only in one land, but in all. "From
Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand" the torch of science is
spreading the light first lighted by the cold storage trusts. The desire for
fresh foods is nothing but a superstition, a survival of the appetite of the cave
man, who, in his ravenous gluttonies, could not even wait for his meat to be
cooked. We, who have advanced so immeasurably beyond him, should learn
that the longer a thing is kept the better it is to eat. In the case of the egg,
in particular, civilized mankind have had a horror of eating them after their
maturity. The new science, speaking out of cold storage trusts, assures us
that this feeling of repulsion is but another echo of the old cave. It teaches
ns that the longer the egg is kept the better, tastier and more wholesome it is.
The story might not have been credited had not the same day brought us the
world of a missionary testifying that cannibals, almost a reversion to the
cavemen in ignorance and savagery, have discovered the great scientific truth
that white meat, that tidbit of all civilized feasts, is not fit to eat until after
a period of storage to relieve it of all its natural flavors. Wherefore the
purpose of science being to separate foods from their flavors, New Guiena
and Chicago have alike discovered storage as a means to an end.
Civilization is not yet, however, convinced that, in its march in the broad
white light of science, it has not outstripped the cannibal.. Not until we hear
from New Guinea that the people of that country prefer, old eggs to new
will we admit their equality in dietetic scientific progress with us who are
"heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." It is our conviction that
the white man brave enough to offer a New Guinea cannibal a cold storage
egg for his eating would at once go in storage himself in preparation for i
cannibal feast day. The cannibal is scientific enough to eat storage meats.
But we think he would revert, and go back to nature's first law, if called to
eat old storage eggs. And not until he can take them with a relish can he
claim place with the Caucasion in that development of science under which
the order changeth, the new giving place to the old.
The columns of The Enterprise are
always open for a full discussion of
any matter of public interest. Com-
I munications should be as brief as pos
sible and to the point. Editor.
Heart to Heart
Talks
By CHARLES N. LURIE -.
The Bank rf Oregon City
Oldest Bank in Clackamas County.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLD-EST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
FORUM 0FTHE PEOPLE
CLACKAMAS, Ore., Oct. 8. (Editor
of The Enterprise) It is not my de
sire to butt into the sparring match
brought on by Dr. Schultze, but as I
am interested in the matter under dis
cussion I would like to make an ob
servation or two. ,
Dr. Norris was not removed from
office as the result of a political agita
tion. On the 23rd or 24th of July the
Enterprise published the removal ot
Dr. Norris by the state board . ot
health. The state board had the mat
ter before them for several months,
and were the body legally empowered
to act in the matter. In answer to
the-physician's paper endorsing Dr.
Norris, several articles were published
in which-questions were asked regard
ing the very matter the good doctor
expatiates on. As Dr. Schultze signed
that paper perhaps it will bV just as,
well to go back to the article pub-1
lished March, 14th, and answer those
questions. , -No one else has done so
and he is the announced . champion,
'!his hat is in the ring." ;
As to the appointment of Dr. Van
Brakle: if the good Dr. Schultze will
make a few more inquiries he will
find that about the time Dr. Edwards'
article appeared in the Enterprise,
some one who is not a minister and
who fought on the other side, suggest
ed to Dr. Van Brakle to make applica
tion and also handed his name to the
judge. Now if it is the wish of the
doctors as seems expressed in Dr.
Schultze's letters to the Enterprise to
place the whole matter before the pub
lic, and if the Enterprise wants to give
space in its daily for the publication
of it all I ask is to be given equal
space with" the other side. I do not
ask for this publication, but if the oth
er side wants, it. we will- not refuse;
provided- that we are given equal
space in . the same paper. And al!
matters can be laid before the public
for their judgment. In several arti-
"ONE DAY AT A TIME."
Four hundred years ago lived Ste
pheu Hawes, an English poet known
only to students of literature. He left
little for future generations to read,
but he penned two lines which. In the
opinion of competent critics, are
enough to save his name from oblivion.
They are: "
For, though the day bo never so long.
At last the bell ringeth to evensong.
Of course the thought itself was not
original with Hawes. It must have
come to tiim from antiquity, for ever
since the world began men have been
preaching and listening to the philoso
phy of-
One day at a time.
Strictly tnie.it is not. since a day is
only one link in a lengthening chain
of days
We cannot take the chain apart, no
matter how hard we may try nor how
certain'that we may be that the world
knew us not before our earthly birth
and will know us not after the breath
of life has left our bodies. The re
motest day In the annals of time, is
joined with its successor and with all
its successors to make today, and to
day already stretches out its hand to
tomorrow and to all the coming tomor
rows. But "one day at a time" has its trutn
nevertheless. -
It tells us to let the enres of the day
fade iuto the dissolving hues of the.
sunset If they are business cares
lock them up when you snap shut your
desk If the Held you plow is stony
do not pick the stones from the fur
row to exhibit them as parlor orna
ments Throw them aside as you go
through the furrows.
When evensong rings but its call to
rest and peace let not its melody and
harmony be disturbed by thoughts of
the sorrows mid cares, the worries and
troubles of- the day.
It is very easy to offer such ad
vice and difficult to put it Into practice.
Into every life, come the insistent
cares, the troubles that will not be
waved aside, that will not 'melt away
with the coining of the evening.
If they are real cares and not fig
ments of the imagination they must
be fought bravely No amount of op
timistic philosophy, no cheerful advice
of "Forget it!" will make them less
real.
But. after all. in one sense it is true
that we live only one day at a time.
If we live that one day rightly as it
comes to us. tomorrow will be a better
day.
THE REAL WORKER.
The man or woman who does
work worth doing is the man or
woman who lives, breathes and
sleeps that work; with whom it is
ever present in hs or her soul;
whose ambition is to do il well and
feel rewarded by the thought of
havng done it well. That man,
that woman, puts th- whole coun
try under1 an obligation. John
R.s . n. .
Each Extends Entire Length of
That State.
FOR SALE
7-room modern bungalow, 1H
blocks from car line, on graded.
Little down, balance $17.50 per
month, this includes interest. Ad
dress, Box 369, Gladstone, for interview.
SMALL TOWNS CONNECTED.
Highways Being Constructed at Cost
of $18,000,000 How Economy Is
Practiced and the Shortest Possible
Routes Are Followed.
California wants and is going to have
two trunk roads, north and south, and
its well defined plan presents an object
lesson to other tttate of great distances
and emphasizes the fact that the
through road is a modern necessity in
a general system.
The California law requires roads to
be built the length of the state along
the most direct and practicable routes,
one along the coast and another trav
ersing the Sacramento and San Joa
quin valleys, with lateral roads to such
county seats as'inay not be on the main
lines. For constructing these roads
$18,000,000 was voted two years ago.
The autoniobilists naturally worked for
this legislation, and it is worth noting
that California has more motorcars
than France, in excess of 75,000.
In the eastern and central states not
only are conditions different, but the
topography of the country is less severe
and lends itself more readily to the
building of roads that will best serve
the Interests of the people. The great
bulk of travel on the through roads of
the east is not from one terminal .to
the other, but between the important
cities along the route and between them
and either terminal. Consequently it is
more expedient to build main roads so'
as to reach all the important points
along or near the route, even to the ex
tent of sacrificing a part of the direct
ness and adding some mileage.
That the comparatively few people
who travel the whole length of a road
should go a few additional miles rather'
than compel a large number of short
tances is self evident. For every ten
persons who travel across a state there
are probably ninety who travel from
one point to another within the state,
so that as a matter of convenience to
the great majority a route across a
state should touch all of the important
cities within reasonable reach.
With the amount of money provided
che utmost economy must be practiced
and shortest possible routes followed
to comply with the- law. To build
roads that will stand the strain of
much motor travel the state highway
commission has adopted concrete for
almost the entire -system. In building
the road the grade is prepared and
drained so as to leave the subgrade
dry that It will not freeze and heave
with frost.
It is then thoroughly rolled. On this
is placed four inchc3 of rich concrete,
which is surfaced with a coat of heavy
asphaltic oil and sand about three
eighths of an inch thick. This surfac
ing, according to the commission, costs
5 cents per square yard and can, If
necessary, be renewed every year or
two under the head of maintenance.
MABEL IRENE VOLKMAR
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"Is Jinks credulous?"
"Yes He believes in himself."
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Price i
FOR SALE BY .
JONES DRUG COMPANY
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S GUSTAV FLECHTNER J
S Teacher of Violin -
4 wishes to announce that he has
S resumed teaching at his studio,
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? Solo and Orchestra Work
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FOR RENT.
FOR RENT Furnished rooms at Farr
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MISCELLANEOUS
A CHANCE One acre suitable for
" chicken ranch; 6-roQ.m plastered
house; chicken houses and barn;
creek; well and hydrant. Price $1800
half cash. See G. Grossenbacher,
Canemah.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE Ten-acre ranch in San.
Joaquin Valley, two miles" from
town; five acres in fine young or
chard; five in alfalfa. Will sell at
a sacrifice on easy terms. For fur
ther particulars address, Mrs. L.. El
vert, PortersviU, Calif.
FOR SALE Good team of horses and
harness, farm wagon, buggy, ten
acres of potatoes in ground. Cheap
for cash. Henry Boege, Rt. No. 5,
Box 78, Oregon City.
FOR SALE Gasoline wood saw;
good as new, and 2 sucking colts, i
months old. F. Steiner, Oregon
City, Rt. No. 3. Tele. Beaver Creek.
FOR SALE Fresh cow with calf. G.
Grossenbacher, Canemah.
FOR SALE 30 acres good level land..
10 acres in cultivation; . 10 slashed,
balance in timber; VA miles north
of Mulino on good road. $150 down;
balance 2 years, 7 per cent interest.
Address Mrs. ML E. Graves, Canby,
Oregon Rt. No. 1.
WOOE) AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and eoal, 4-foot and 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing especialty. Phono
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
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