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OREGON CITY, OREGON
E E. BRODIE
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter January 9, 1911, at the postoffice at
Oregon Gty, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
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CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER.
THERE is some speed to the state board of health in Oregon. The
last report of the department includes its activities to and including
December 31, 1912. When these statements reach the general pub
lic, they are almost one year old and the benefit that the state derives from
the work of the office is, on the face of it, very important.
It does seem that the heads of the department could get around with
their report in less than a year's time after the work has been completed and
could get their statements before the public in time to do the people of the
state some good. The public generally is little interested in a report that
is a year old and the benefits that can be derived from an analysis of condi
tions so long after they have happened that they are dead and forgotten are
few and far between.
For instance, the report gives the results of the water tests made at
the filter plant during the year 1912 and about 23 out of 39 tests show the
presence of positive colon baccili both in the city water and in that taken
directly from the river. But that condition is of little interest to the people
here now for the conditions of a year ago are possibly not the conditions of
today. What the people want to know is the result of the tests made by 'he
board within a reasonable length oftime after those tests have been made.
Certainly the board could finish its annual accumulation of work somewhere
around 4ie first of the year and have its tests printed and distributed within
a period that would give the people some benefit of the work done.
Subservient reports made to quiet the anxiety of the people do not help
health conditions in the least and the benefits that the state can gain from
the existence of a health department are many if that office is conducted
on the basis of impartial reports regardless of whom or what is hit.
.For some cause or other, the people of Oregon City have little faith
in the state board of health. During the typhoid troubles with which the
city has been. afflicted for months, several things have happened that have
shaken the confidence and faith of the people in the state board and its
decisions on water, as on other matters, are not taken with any particular
seriousness by the public generally. The people have more confidence in
their own physicians than they have in the visitors from Portland and the
way that the state board seems to have dodged the issues that have been pre
sented here from time to time has aroused the wrath of the people against
the state officials.
A health board is the protecting wall for the people of the state .against
the encroachments of disease. It behooves tke state, therefore, in making
its selection of the men who are to have a position on that board to pick
those who have the backbone to stand even against public sentiment when
Churches Themselves Must First
Be Reformed Before They
Will Accomplish Much
By the Rev. Dr. WILLIAM S. RAINSFORD, Former Rector of
St. George's Church, New York City"
IS Tl
INE
THE CHURCH TO INSPIRE AND GUIDE THE
JEVITABLE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL
MOVEMENT OF THE DAY, OR IS SHE TO
STAND ALOOF OR OPPOSE IT? THE CHURCHES
MUST THEMSELVES BE RADICALLY REFORMED
BEFORE THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH MUCH.
The fact should be frankly recognized both by
those who deplore it arid by those who approve that
the weight and influence of all our churches are to
day conservative.
Here and there individual reformers in pew or
in pulpit lift voices of protest against evident wrongs
or seek to enlist the church's organization in the
cause of radical reform. Their following is small.
Their PROTEST SOON" FALLS UNHEEDED.
These progressives may succeed in organizing socie
ties. They do not succeed in altering the conservative attitude of the
main body. , ,
The wage earner has small voice in the matter. . The modern church
is seldom organized so as to reach him. He has . DROPPED THE
CHURCH OR THE CHURCHES HAVE DROPPED HIM.
THE CHURCHES. ARE DYING OF DRY. ROT., , .
'I The church DOES NOT REPRESENT TODAY THE WHOLE
PEOPLE, as once it did. . . - V .- -
In a democratic age and country the AMERICAN CHURCHES
ARE ARISTOCRATIC.? The great churches have for many years de
liberately catered for and followed the well housed, well clothed, well
to do in the community.
that sentiment is against public health. -
There have been health officers over the country who have done this.
While their work may not have been appreciated by their own people at the
time, the appreciation became all of the keener after the work began to show
its results in the reduction of disease. W. C. Gorgas, chief officer of the
department of health in the Panama canal zone was such a man. .From
the malarial swamps of that torrid country, filled with disease and death for
the white man, he brought about the present healthful conditions of the
American property. There have been others who have made themselves
leaders in the fight for health. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the
United States, was another man of the same calibre. Men "with backbone
are recognized and appreciated whether they be in business or in professional
life and whether they are or are not interested ,in the public health. But
how much more are they appreciated when they have stamina enough to
determine upon the true conditions of affairs and tell the people frankly
what they know and see that things are done to remedy those conditions.
A little nerve in the health department of the state would be an excellent
thing.
O
ET IS INEVITABLE that there should be a tendency to look upon the
fire drill in the schools as a piece of routine which becomes monotonous
, and perhaps unnecessary. Pupils may pass through their entire school
career, responding to fire drill after fire drill, and never having a bit of ex
citement to enliven the monotony. Yet now and then school boards and
teachers, if not the pupils, see the wisdom of regulation which results in
the movements of the fire drill becoming largely automatic. There is al
ways the possibility that the time may come when the habit of responding
to the signal will save a community from a great horror and scores of fam
ilies from unspeakable grief. At Fort Wayne, Ind., the other, day, five
hundred pupils marched from a school building in one minute. There was
no disorder and no one was injured in a crush, for there was no crush. Yet
the building was filled with smoke at the time. ' As a matter of. fact, there
was no fire, the smoke being caused by an attempt by the janitor to burn
rubbish in the furnace, but so far as the teachers and pupils knew, the
smoke-filled building was ablaze. Fire drills have been given at frequent
intervals in this school, and the effect was not . lost upon the pupils in the
iace of a supposed emergency. An alarm had been sent tof the fire depart
ment, and the fire chief, on his arrival, complimented teachers and pupils
on their fire-drill performance.
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BECAUSE, the Southern Pacific railroad has a disagreement with its
employes, the cotton, rice and sugar planters of Louisiana are threat
ened with heavy loss, and in many cases with utter ruin. It is abso
lutely necessary that their crops shall be moved. Desperate relief measures
are being taken by the planters in all sections. ' Into Lake Charles, the lead
ing rice center of America, came Saturday afternoon fifty wagons laden with
rice, drawn by automobiles. - From Lake Charles the cereal can be moved by
the Kansas City Southern. The use of autos to haul crops is being resorted
to in other sections. Other towns on waterways have chartered boats, some
being drawn from regular service for the purpose, to carry the crops to the
lines of the Frisco or. to tidewater. Many of the Louisiana manufacturing
plants, including the cotton gins, use oil for fuel, and the strike has
caught them short in the busiest season. This trouble, inconvenience and
loss is caused by the failure of a railroad system to discharge its customary
functions. Whatever the merits of the dispute which led to the strike, it
is clear that there ought to be some means by which it could be adjusted.
If friendly arbitration fails, then there must be compulsory arbitration, or
this country will be rushing headlong toward government ownership of pub
lic utilities. The present situation is plainly intolerable.
The officers of this bank are at your
service. They Invite you to make
this bank your business home.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK l-N CLACKAMAS COUNTY
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
C. W. Minor and wife to H. F.
Hughes and Charlotta A. O'Connor,
lot 20 Tualatin Meadows; $10.
M. T. Duffy to Ethel M. Holman, T.
2 S., R. 1 E.; $10.
T. W. Cloe and wife to Henry Von
Groenewald and wife tract 45 in
Concord; $10.
L. G. McQuade," George M. Rivley,
T. 3 S., R. 3 E.; $10.
Theodore Young and wife and An
na Celleen, to H. G. Hartshorne, T. 2
S., R 2 E.; $10.
W. A. Beck and wife to Fred Shafer
lot six, block two, Taylor's addition to
Molalla; $200.
R. J. Moore and wife to W. A. Wood
T. 5 S., R. 2 E.; $10.
C. K. Leitzel to Clayton E. Leitzel,
section 14, T. 7 S., R. 2 E; $10.
Clara Erion to Ora R. Fowell, sec
tion 27, T. 1 S., R. 4 E.; $1000.
R. B. McCarthur and wife to L. O.
Ralston and others T. 5 S. R. 2 E.;
$1.
W. J. Rowe and wife to S. H. Ran
kin, lots seven, eight and other frac
tional lots, block 53, Gladstone; $700.
Deed by state of Oregon to Inker
man Helmer, N. W. N. W. S. E.
section 26, T. 7 S., R. E.; $1500.
C. H. Dye, trustee, to Frank E. An
drews, lots 5, 6 block 18, south Oregon
City, No. 1; $10. - ,
Frank E. Andrews and wife to Alice
M. Pederson, section 22 T. 4 S., R. 4
E.; $10. .,- : . '
"The sewer bond sale at a price
above par shows that Salem's credit
is above par," says the Salem States
man. "But we will have to pay off
some bonds and issue no more or
grow a good deal, to keep it so."
Hard winter predictions
terror for old timers.
have no
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Heart to Heart
Talks
By CHARLES W. LURlE
Read the Enterprise for the news.
WANTED BIG MEN.
Want a job a big Job one paying
$6,000 a year?
If you can fill it the government Is
looking for you. It is going to make a
physical valuation of the railroads of
t'- mintry, and it needs the men
i assist in the work. It is will
u pay them well, according to
go e. u merit standards.
- Of course the men who could earn
Uncle Sam's $6,000 a year are earn
ing more in private employ, and will
give up their higher salaries only at
the urging of patriotism. Some have
already done so.
The point is, the government needs
$6,000 men, and others need them too.
There are plenty of $1,200 men and
$600 men, but $6,000 men are scarce.
It is so all over.
A man of large affairs once said to
the late J. Pierpont Morgan:
"I am tired out and should like to
take a trip to Europe, but I can't get
away from my business. I should like
to find a man whom I could intiust
with it for awhile, placing him in
charge of the details. If I could get
such a man I would be willing to pay
him $25,000 a year. The rest from
business would be worth much mor
than that to me. Perhaps you have
In your employ some such man whom
you could spare for a year."
Morgan, keenest of Judges of men,
answered: ,
"If I had such a man I'd pay him
$100,000 a year. And I couldn't spare
him for a year."
Another man was talking about
young women stenographers:
"I need a good stenographer, and I
am willing to pay her well," he said.
"I can find plenty of cheap stenogra
phers, but I can't seem to find one who
will be worth $30 a week to me."
The moral of all this is: Make your
self worth the higher salary.
Every bit of knowledge gained,
every instance of good Judgment ex
ercised. every case of alertness dis
played, means higher valuation of the
man In the case... . . .. - -
Of course higher value of a man to
his employer, public or private, means
higher rvalue to himself. You cannot
seek to make yourself worth more to
some one else without raising your
value to yourself. -
' A good way to "size up" your value,
commercial and otherwise, is to ask
yourself, and to answer truthfully, the
question:
"How much am I -Worth to myself?
Lofty Aspirations.
Far away there in the sunshine are
my highest aspirations. I cannot reach
them, but I can look up and see their
beauty, believe In them, and try to
follow where they lead. Louisa May
Olcott
Another great spell lately for fall
work in the county.
Wants, For Sale, Etc
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED Furnished house by local
business man; best of referaiice.
Address "X" care Enterprise.
WANTED Work by the day by a
woman that will hustle. Call 150S
lGth street. - -
WANTED Work of any kind by edu
cated man of middle age. Address
"S.," care Enterprise.
HELP WANTED FEMALE
WANTED Girl going to school to
help with children. Wages. Ap
ply N. W. corner Madison and 11-th.
WANTED German girl for general
housework. Apply, 610 Washington
St. .-. : .. .
FOR SALE.
ELECTRICAL WORK
Contracts, Wiring and Fixtures
WE DO IT
IVTiller-Fark:er Co.
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.
II. J. BIGGER
EARLY HISTORY OF THE PANAMA RAILROAD NOW OWNED AND
OPERATED AT A PROFIT BY UNCLE SAM
By WILIS J. ABBOTT, Author of "Panama and the Canal in Picture and
Prose"
FOR SALE Dining table and chairs,
bed, stove and three rockers. Call
1508 16th street ' .
Just now, when the United States
is considering seriously embarking
upon railroad building in Alaska,
where a rich territory is sorely , in
need of development, some informa
tion about the only railroad owned
and operated by the government will
be of interest. The flippant say that
the Panama railroad is chiefly notable
because it takes you from the Atlantic
to the Pacific in three hours, whereas
privately owned roads between the
same oceans take six or seven days.
This argument for government own
ership is clearly fallacious. It is
based on an insufficient examination
of the facts, much as was the opinion
of a member of congress who, after
six days of racking sea sickness saw
from the deck of his ship entering
Colon a large freight house . labelled
"P. R. R." "Darn it all!" he exclaimed,
"If I'd known the Pennsylvania had
a line down here I'd never came on
this infernat ship."
Construction of the Panama rail
road originally was a remarkable bit 1
of work for its period, when railroad
building was in its infancy it was
marvellous.
But the swamp and jungle were un
relenting in their toil of human life.
Men working all day deep in slimy
ooze ' composed of decaying tropical
vegetation, sleeping exposed to the
bites of malaria-bearing insects,
speedily sickened and too often died.
Workingmen of every nationality
were experimented with but none
were immune. The historian of the
railroad reported that the African re
sisted longest, next the coolie, then
the European, and last the Chinese.
The experience of the company with
the last-named class of labor was trag
ic in the extreme. Eight hundred
were landed on the Isthmus after a
voyage on which sixteen had died.
Thirty-two fell ill almost at the mo
ment of landing and in less than a
week eighty more were prostrated.
Strangers in a strange land, unable to
express their complaints or make
clear their symptoms, they were al
most as much the victims of home
sickness as of any other ill. The in
terpreters who accompanied them de
clared that much of their illness was
due to their deprivation of their ac
customed opium, and for a time the
authorities supplied them, with the
result that nearly two-thirds were
again up and able to work. Then the
exaggerated American moral sense,
which is so apt to ignore the customs
of other lands and peoples, caused the
opium supply to be shut off. Perhaps
the fact that the cost of opium daily
per Chinaman was 15 cents had some
thing to do with it. At any rate the
whole body of Chinamen were soon
sick unto death and quite ready for
it. They made no effcfrt to cling to
the lives that had become hateful.
Suicides were a daily occurrence and
in all forms. Some with Chinese stol
idity would sit upon a rock on the
ocean's bed and wait for the tide to
submerge them. Many used their
own queues as ropes and hanged
themselves. Others persuaded ... or
bribed their fellows . to. shoot them
dead. Some thrust sharpened sticks
through their throats, or clutching
great stones leaped into the river,
maintaining their hold until death
made the grasp still more rigid. Some
starved themselves and others died of
mere brooding over their dismal
state. In a few weeks but 200 were
left alive, and these were sent to Jam
aica, where they were slowly absorb
ed by the native population.
- At one time on the verge of bank
ruptcy the railroad, though incom
plete, was saved by the rush to Cali
fornia in the bonanza days. When it
had but nine miles of track complet
ed that was, and when the road was
completed it had earned $2,125,000, or
about one-third of its cost. Thereaf
ter it was a gold mine.
Traffic for the road grew faster
than the road itself and when it was
completed 'it was quite apparent that
it was not equipped to handle the bus
iness that awaited it. Accordingly
the managers determined to charge
more than the traffic would bear to
fix such rates as would be prohibitive
until they could get the road suitably
equipped. Mr. Tracy Robinson says
that a few of the lesser officials at
Panama got up a sort of burlesque
rate card and sent it on to the gen
eral offices in New York. It charged
$25 for one fare across the Isthmus
one way, or $10 second class. Per
sonal baggage was charged five cents
a pound, express $1.80 a cubic foot,
second-class freight fifty cents a cubic
foot, coal $5 a ton all for a haul of
forty-seven miles. To the amazement
of the Panama jokers the rates were
adopted and, what was more amazing,
they remained unchanged for twenty
years. During that time the company
paid dividends of 24 per cent, with an
occasional stock dividend and liberal
additions to the surplus. Its stock at
.one time Went up to 335 and as in its
darkest days, it could have "been
bought for a song, those who had
bought it were more lucky than most
of the prospectors who crowded its
coaches on the journey to the coal
fields.
When DeLesseps undertook the
Panama Canal the road was offered
him for $200 a share. He took his
time to consider it and when he de
cided the price jumped to $250 a
share. That made a difference of $3,
500,000, but the French had to pay it.
Except for the control of the road
there might be no republic of Panama
today, for the French managers fa
voring the revolution refused to carry
the Columbian troops except for cash.
The commanders had no money. Ttt
troops could not reach the seat of w;
and the revolution triumped without
a battle.
Try a Woodchuck!
"I tried to dine on a woodchuck once
when I was a hoy, but never have felt
inclined to repeat the experiment,"
says John Burroughs in the Century.
"If one were born in the woods and
lived in the woods maybe he could rel
ish a woodchuck. Talk about being
autochthonous and savoring of the soil
try a woodchuck! The feeding habits
of this animal are as cleanly as those
of a sheep or a cow clover, plantain,
peas, beans, cucumbers, cabbages, ap
plesall sweet and succulent things go
to the making of his flabby body; yet
he spends so much of his time in pickle
in the ground that his flesh is rank
with the earth flavor."
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and eoaL 4-foot and 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing specialty. Phone
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
A120. F. M. BLUHM .
L. G. ICE. DENTIST
- Beaver Bui'ding
Phones: Main 1221 or A-193
Many a person has realized, too
late, that he aian t understand an-
other. , ' 1
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