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OIIEGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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E. E. BRODIE Editor and Publisher
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BOOM STARTS FOR Hood River is added to the list of those cities
BETTER ROADS that has awakened to the necessity for better roads.
It has suffered long with chuck holes and mud puddles. For years it has
paid the annual tax of transportation through mud and slush and has seen
the loss that piles up on the farmer and lessens his profit for his goods.
Now, it has started a boom for better highways through the county and
has undertaken to contribute toward the construction of the roadway along
the Columbia river. Such a move is in accord with the progressive spirits of
the time. "Because our fathers didn't have them" is no longer any reason
why we should not have better roads. Because our fathers happened to
come across the plains in ox carts is now no reason why we shouldn't ride on
. the most luxurious sleepers that the transcontinental trains possess.
Just because the first settlers of the city did not have sidewalks is no
valid reason why we should not have thern. Because the first doctors knew
little about surgery and modern methods of practice is not a valid excuse why
we should turn down the advancements of science and the advantages now
offered to use by the progress of medicine. So many tilings have been the
tumbling block in the way of progress that we havn't had good roads before.
So many of us have figured that because we never have had those things be
fore, we never can have them. New ideas, new schemes, anything that shows
originality and progress seem to be particularly offensive to some people.
They can't get used to a new scheme just because they never heard of that
scheme before. They can't understand anything that hasn't been worn in the
rut of antiquity nor handed down from generations of the fathers.
Such an idea is a stone at the entrance to the way of progress. It stands
in the way of everything that is planned for public betterment. It keeps the
town, the city, the country in the same old rut year after year and decade af
ter decade just because some of the citizens are of the fossil variety that won't
stand for anything in the way of progressive ideas. Hood River is having
that trouble in the campaign for better highways. Jackson county has hail
that experience in its fight for a $500,000 bond issue for better roads. Every
Man Never Fed As Well
as He Is at Present
Now
Eating
Better
Foods
mmm
He Can
Buy
More
Wheat
by American Press
Association.
By Dr. HARVEY W. WILEY, Formerly Chief Chemist of the
United States
THERE NEVER WAS A TIME WHEN MAN WAS SO WELL FED AS
AT THE PRESENT. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LOOK FAR TO SEE
THE CAUSES OF THE INCREASED COST OF FOOD.'
First, people are EATING BETTER FOODS than ever before, and,
second, the purchasing mediumnamely, gold is relatively far MORE
ABUNDANT than ever before; hence the quantity of food it will pur
. chase is decidedly less. The great staples, the cereals, however, are not
as expensive at the present time as during the past.
FOR A DAY'S LABOR A MAN CAN BUY MORE WHEAT
than he could twenty-five or fifty years ago. It is the part of scientific
nutrition as well as social economy to increase the quantity of cereals
in our foods and to diminish those nutriments whicbrare of less necessity
and of increasingly higher price.
To my mind, it seems the most important factor of the day is to
CHECK THE AGGREGATION OF MEN IN THE CITIES and
to encourage the distribution of the great industries where men are em
ployed. The saloon has no comnellin? attraction for t.ho laWinc fin wVin
after his eight hours of wor.k, has EIGHT HOURS FOR HIS
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN. If our productive indus
tries in a manufacturing line were properly distributed the alcohol evil
would be robbed of most of its terrors. V
The unfortunate condition now exists of providing so called FRESH
FOODS in an advanced state of staleness and of providing foods which
should be properly aged in an IMMATURE STATE. The cured ham
is ready for distribution within three weeks of slaughter, and the four-year-old
whisky is made in forty seconds.
county of the state has the same old trouble. That species seems to a com
mon garden variety.
But thanks to the spirit of education that is now prevailing in the country
and state, the people are awakening to the necessity for better highways and
have seen the tremendous cost that is annually taxed against the farmer for
the mud holes and chuck holes that he now has to meet. The annual tax
that the farmer pays to the county may be so high that he believes the board
of commissioners are robbing him. He immediately comes before that
board and tells it flatly that it is confiscating his property, that he is charged
with taxes that he cannot bear and that there is no chance for a farmer in
the West at all. All of these things have been heard by the county boards
of equalization year after year in every one of the counties of the state.
But the same farmer will lie supinely on his back and rest content with
the roads that nature gave him and that have scarcely been toughed by the
hand of man since the time that the first pioneer ox carts made their way
across the county. In some parts of the country today the original Oregon
trail stands just as it was when the teams and ox carts made their way across
the plains in the early days. Not a bit of improvement has ever been made
upon it, not a stone marks that greatest of all national highways.
But todays all over the country we hear of the campaigns for better
roads. The people have seen the light. They have now begun to under
stand the mud tax that is assessed against them every year not by county
courts and state tax boards but by the sink, mud hole, and rut in the high
way that added to the cost, cuts down the profits, multiplies the load, and
decreases the weight that can be carried to market.
Never will the farms of the West receive their greatest prosperity and
the fullest measure of good things that the hand of nature has given thern
until the people fully awake to the necessity for better roads and then build
them. , v
CONGRESS RELIEVED In one respect the Democrats in congress have
OF BRAIN WORK had an astonishingly easy summer. They are no
longer required to think. The caucus sets their nose and tbey merely follow
it. President Wilson sets the nose of the caucus by calling in a few leaders
to receive instructions. If he tells the chosen few to change their program
more in the direction of his personal views they do it instantly. All summer
nearly all the Democrats in the present congress have been living in a Lotu
land, a legislative Nirvana. Cerebral action has ceased. Democratic votes
in house and senate are reached as simply as if worked by cash register. A
turn of the caucus crank, a touch of the caucus button, is the beginning and
end of legislative action on the floor. The caucus gets there first and leaves
no more to be said or done. An amendment offered on the floor goes rigiit
through the trapdoor provided by the caucus. A Democratic member knows
exactly what will take place on the floor. He is strung on caucus wires and
worked with a turn of the wrist. Formerly congress in session had to think.
The caucus has changed all that.
Several states are now practically excluded from legislation. They have
no Democratic member, and therefore nobody to represent them in the all
powerful caucus. All that remains to them is a seat on the floor and the
caucus has made that equivalent to an empty chair. In such states a mem
ber articulates a speech to a body that has already acted in caucus, and he of
fers amendments to a majority pledged to vote down amendments, no matter
what. A congressman thus situated is not admitted to the caucus, and on the
floor is confronted with action already taken. He can speak into the Con
gressional Record, but that also is reduced to a poor trumpery thing, not
containing the real proceedings. They are found only in the caucus, which
is not reported at all. Only one party participates in them, and only a junta
has any real influence there. It is rather an abject condition for the congress
of the United States of America as formerly carried on, an equal and distinct
part of the government.
"Wealth is not always acquired, as many suppose, by
fortunate specul ations and splendid enterprises, but
by daily practice of industry and frugality and econ
omy. He who relies upon these means will rarely bs
found destitute." Wayland.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
eart to fieart
Talks
By CHARLES N. LURIE
STRENGTHENING THE BACK.
If you grunt and sweat under a
weary life, as Hamlet said
If you feel that you are working too
hard for your employer
If you believe that he Is underpaying
you and does not appreciate you at
your proper value
It may be so. Such things have been
known to happen. But before you de
cide that such are the facts in your
own case and take steps to remedy
them, read this: N
"The way te lift one's employer off
one's back is to make one's back so
efficient that he cannot afford to be
on it"
That's from "Crowds," a recent book
by Gerald Stanley Lea Mr. Lee is a
lecturer and writer and preacher of
the gospel. ,
There are inappreciative employers.
There are those who are so blind to
their own interests that they will not
see and appreciate and reward faith
fulness and good service. Sucb gen
erally meet with their deserts, for their
gooa men leave tne'ui for o"Ther employ
ment and they must put up with In
ferior help.
But they are in the minority. For
a man to continue in the business of
employing others he must learn to
know and to recognize the efficient
employee. Both employer and em
ployee are, whether each knows It or
not, cogs in the machine that makes
the business go.
That being so, does it not pay the
employee to see whether the root of
his employer's inappreciation Is not
buried in the soil of his own lack of
efficiency?
Some men are only 25 per cent effi
cient: others lack 50 per cent of their
potential value. They are like faulty
ovens from which only a percentage
of the value of the fuel is realized.
The 100 per cent efficient man Is a
rare specimen of humanity.
Depend upon it. your employer, if he
be a wise man. will not superimpose
npon your back, already bent beneath
the load of work, the added burden of
hi inappreciation. He will realize that
In doing so lie is working against his
own interests. Not many employers do
that in those d:iys of urgent bus'ness
competition 4 .
If you are aiming nt becoming nn em
ployer of men yourself it will pay you.
of course, to make your IihpU more ef
ficient. Thou when flie time comes
for yon to di.vct the work of others,
intend of tfoins the actual labor your
self. rm,.Jtlll know l,ow to ;iiKii"t thu
INCOME PROPERTY FOR
; FARM
We have the following prop
erty to exchange for farm prop
erty of equal value.
4 good houses and more than
8 lots of 50x100 each, 3 acres ad
joining this that can be cut In
to lots. These houses are all
occupied, and will bring a rental
of $35.00 per month. They are
well situated, having a sightly
outlook, located on a car line
close to a fine school, and their
water supply is from a large
spring that is absolutely pure.
Come and look at our property,
you will find it a snap.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
ouraen to tne TJn'cks of your men In
such a way that you will be able to
make them, in their turn, more effi
cient. Thus move onward the machine of
Ijnsiness
TOWN BUILDING TIPS.
A city building organization .j,
without an adequate member-
ship is as useless as an automo- J
bile without an engine. 4.
Help your neighbor when you T
can. A "To Let" sign next door X
is a bad advertisement for your 4
business. -
Opportunity is seldom grasped X
by the individual man or city
.t, without intelligence and vigor.
fit is all right to suppress the
smoke nuisance, but don't de- T
j. stroy the factory merely because X
"J its boiler room is at fault.
X Town Development. 2.
Origin of Vaudeville Turns.
We are indebted to John Chinaman
for the modern vaudeville "turn."
There were theaters in China when our
ancestors were wandering about dress
ed in skins and blue paint, and the ac
tors in those faroflf times were just as
anxious to please their patrons as the
modern "artist" is to get the applause
which gladdens his heart and more
Important still sends his salary up.
The play over, each member "of the
troupe came forward to receive the ap
plause to which he thought he was en
titled, and one of them bit on the
bright idea of performing some simple
trick to prolong the enthusiasm of the
spectators. His example was speedily
followed, and these tricks soon became
obligatory. One actor would produce a
cat or a monkey from a hat: another
would imitate an animal or "swallow"
an object which he afterward found in
his boot. Each tried to surpass the
other, and fents of strength and dex
terity were soon added to these simple
tricks. Pearson's Weekly.
Quite a Run.
It's an overworked word, that poor
little monosyllable "run.''
"I found a run started in my best
stockings this morning," said the wo
man, "so I thought I'd run downtown
and go Into 's, where they are hav
ing a great run on silk hose. They ran
an advertisement in this morning's
paper, you know. Well, I ran my eye
over the bargains on the way down
and I saw so many things I needed'
that I ran out of money before I got
to the hose counter. Well, I'd run my
legs off by that time, but I don't run a
bill at 's. so I was in despair until
who should I run into but my hus
band. I got some money of him he's
more generous than the general rim
of men but when I got to the coun
ter they'd run out of my size. Wasn't
thai a terrible run of luck?"
And so she ran on and on and on.
Cleveland Plain Deale.
Made In Manchester.
The gentleman came on the railway
platform with a bicycle just as the
train was about to leave for Manches
ter. He put the machine into the van.
A ticket collector followed him to the
compartment -and -asked if he had a
ticket for the bicycle. He had not. and
as tl official on the step was writing
out ;.u "excess" receipt the train began
to move, whereupon he came in and
traveled to town. The gentleman who
had made this trip compulsory engaged
the collector in conversation and found
that the man would have to cross Man
chester to get a train home, again.
"Why," he said, "then you'll pass not
far from my office. Would you mind
taking this bag there for me?' I should
like to get out at the next station and
come to town by a later train." The
dazed collector meekly agreed. It was
a fine example of bow to collect "ex
cess." Manchester Guardian.
Mixing the Game.'.
"What's an Inning, ma?"
"When one side has its bat In base
ball. Johnny."
"An outing is the same thing, isn't
itr
. "No. Why?"
"Well, I heard pa say he had his last
bat on an outing." Youngstown Telegram.
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER CQMPANY
Next Door to Bonk of Oregon City
CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Trees, 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 2511.
H. J. BIGGER
Painting Pictures on tne Floor.
Albert Moore, the great artist whose
works may be seen in the Tate and
other public galleries, scorned the or
dinary poses of the painter. He pre
ferred his ease to an easel and paint
ed all his great pictures, so dainty and
charming, on the floor. His tubes of
paint and his brushes and other ac
cessories of his art were scattered
about him, and he lay "flat on his
stomach, seldom remaining in one posi
tion five minutes at a time.
The celebrated painter of "Christ
Leaving the Pretorium" and the illus
trator of Milton and Dante, that
strange genius. Gustave Dore, had the
same habit. The floor was his easel
whenever possible, and. as he was a
stout, heavy man. he seldom rose to
an . upright position except for his
meals, and not always then. London
Telegraph.
Edward Young's Tragedy.
In Garrick's time the church had a
decided leaning toward the stage. The
great actor suffered a plague of stage
struck clergymen. He read many of
their plays and produced at least one.
The Kev. Edward young of Welwyn
parish and of "Night Thoughts" fame
wrote a tragedy of "The Two Broth
ers," which Garrick produced. Its re
ceptiou was a tragedy. It "was only
fit to make an icehouse of a theater."
Young, however, had counted his
chickens. He had promised 1,000. the
expected proceeds of .his author's
rights, to the Society For the Propaga
tion of the Gospel. And here he shone.
He dipped deeply into his private
purse and made up the thousand.
London Chronicle.
Sarcastic. '
"When reverses come you find out
who your friends are." ,
"So."
"Yes. Tbey immediately proclaim
that they knew you were an accident."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
? GUSTAV FLECHTNER
3 Tes.cher of Violin
$ wishes to announce that he has v
? resumed teaching at his studio, Q
612 Center Street. ?
3 Solo and Orchestra Work 3
? Phones: Main 1101 Home M-172
$$-3S'SS?,?s$'"'
HELP WANTED FEMALE
WANTED German girl for general
housework. Apply 610 Seventh St.
MISCELLANEOUS
L. AUSTIN, the tailor, for men and
, women. Suits made to your meas
ure; alterations and refitting.
; Prices reasonable. Room A, Barclay
Building.
A CHANCE One acre 'suitable for
chicken ranch; 6-room plastered
house; chicken houses and barn;
creek, well and hydrant. Price J1800
half cash. See G. Grossenbacher,
Canemah.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE, at a bargain 2-cylinder,
7-horse, late model Excelsor motor
cycle. Equipped; has tamden seat.
Ask for E. Brown, Enterprise office.
FOR SALE Gasoline wood -saw;
good as new, and 2 sucking colts, 4
months old. F. Steiner, Oregon
City, Rt. No. 3. Tele. Beaver Creek.
FOR SALE Fresh cow with calf. G.
Grossenbacher, Canemah.
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and eoal, 4-foot aad 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing especialty. Phono
your orders Pacific 1371, Hame
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SUjMMONS
In the Circuit Court for the Stat of
Oregon, for Clackamas County.
Sarah Elizabeth Sears, Plaintiff,
vs.
Harry B. Sears, Defendant.
To Harry B. Sears, The above named
defendant:
In the name of the State of Oregon:
You are hereby required to appear
and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above entitled
suit on or before the 17th day of
October, 1913, which is six weelvs
after the 5th day cf September,
1913, the date of the first publica
tion of this summons, and if you
fail to appear and answer the com
plaint, for want thereof, the plain-
mi win apply to the Court for a
decree dissolving the bonds of maN
. rimony existing between plaintiff,
Sarah Elizabeth Sears, and defen
dant, Harry B. Sears, and granting
' to plaintiff the care and custody
of Frank Bates Sears and SanforJ
Chittenden Sears, minor children of
plaintiff and defendant, and for
such other and further relief as the
Court may deer- meet in the prem
ises. This Bummons is published in'pur
suance of an order of the Honorable
J. TJ. Campbell, Judge of the above
entitled Court, made on the 4th
. day of September, 1913, and the
time prescribed for publication
thereof is six consecutive weeks,
BREWSTER & MAHAFFIE
Attorneys for Plaintiffr 419 Falling
Building, Portland, Ore.
Date of first publication Sentember
5, 1913.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. '
In the County court of the State of '
, Oregon, for Clackamas county.
In the Matter of the Estate of Otto
Hanson, Deceased:
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary have been issued by
l.the above entitled, court In the
above entitled matter to the under
signed; and all persons having
claims against said estate are here?
by required to present same duly '
verified as required by law within
six months Tr5m'"tn'date of the
first publication of this notice to
the undersigned at Oswego, Oregon.
Date of first publication, Sept. 19.
1913.
Date of last publication October 17,
1913.
FRANK SCHLEGEL,
MATT DIDZUN.
Executor of Above-Named Estate,
D. C. LATOTJRETTE, President.
F. J. METER, Cashier.
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