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MORNING ENTERPRISE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND MIS FAMILY .AFFAIRS
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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E. E. BRODIE Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter January 9, 1911, at the postoffice at
Oregon City, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
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CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER.
AMERICA WILL GET its first practical experiments in the govern
ment ownership of railroads if the bill now pending before the house
committee on postoffices and post roads passes through congress. In
thakbill, the department has asked the legislature of the country for $100,000
to try the experiment for one year and to determine whether it would be
cheaper for the government to own its cars or to lease them and pay the trans
portation costs for the mail as it has been doing.
As the life of the average steel car is 15 years and the average cost of
maintenance from $1700 to $3000 per year, the government officials believe
they can save something out of the present charge of $16,000 for each car
annually.
The test is worth making, at any rate. Though the postmaster general
sometime ago favored the government ownership of all rail and telephone and
telegraph lines, the country is not yet prepared to take that much of a step
along those lines. It is, however, willing that the officials should spend a
little money in making tests if they believe that the country can ultimately
save something in the annual expense that is incurred by the postoffice depart
ment and place that office on a self supporting basis. If the costs of the
transportation of mail over the main lines of the roads is so great every year
and the department heads believe that they can cut down this expense by the
ownership of the steel cars that carry this mail, the experiment is worth the
money that the bill provides should be spend whether it sustains this content
tion or not.
Experiments', in general, cost money but if they lead to the collection of
data that will afterwards prove of benefit to the government and that enables
the heads of the departments to afterwards save money for the people of the
country, they are worth the first cost and the time expended.
It would be interesting to the people to learn whether or not governrrfent
wnership of this kind would pay. It would also be interesting to the depart
ment to learn just how much of a profit the railroads have been making off
of the transportation of mail for the past 20 years. Such data is worth any
' costs that the government sees fit to make, within reason, for whether it ends
fri the government control of its steel mail cars or not it will show the officials
the actual cost of operation of such cars and may enable them to later cut
down the charges that the roads have been making when they have bid for
the federal contracts.
Sometime ago the transcontinental lines threatened to cut out their fast
Politics Needs the Young Man,
but He Must Play the
Game Honestly
By Governor LEON R. TAYLOR of New Jersey,
Youngest Governor In the United States
Photo by American
Press Association.
POLITICS NEEDS THE YOUNG MAN. ONE OF
HIS PRIME QUALIFICATIONS IS HIS FREE
DOM FROM ENTANGLING ALLIANCES. HE
HAS A CLEAN SLATE; HE ISN'T MIXED UP WITH
A LOT OF THINGS AND PEOPLE LIKELY TO IN
TERFERE WITH HIS SERVICE TO THE STATE.
THEN HE IS IN THE MOVEMENT. HE HAS THE
NEWER IDEALS, THE LESS SORDID AMBITIONS.
HE HAS RASH IMPLUSES, BUT HE USUALLY
STOPS TO THINK BEFORE HE ACTS.
Thefe's such a thing as being so conservative that you're afraid to
move in any direction. You just stand still. That's the weakness of
some of the safe and sane candidates. -
I advise no young man to enter politics unless he is BURNING UP
WITH PATRIOTISM OR HAS AN ASSURED INCOME. It costs
too much to be a politician; not in money, but in time. After the end
fit this year I quit. I'm going back to the law, and for about ten years
I'm going to work just as hard as I can. Then maybe I'll have another
, look at politics.
Once you're in politics you have NO TIME FOR ANYTHING
ELSE. You haven't inclination, either.
IF A.YOUNG MAN CAN'T AFFORD TO STAY HONEST IN POLI
TICS HE CAN'T AFFORD TO STAY AT ALL. "
The bosses will be good to him for awhile if he is obedient and asks
no questions. But unless he has independence he will acquire such a
malodorous reputation that -the bosses will never dare to use him as a
candidate for a big office. The people wake up once in awhile, you know.
And the BOSSES HAVE TO DECLARE FOR THE HONEST
MAN not because they want him, but because they need tea.
mail trains from San Francisco to New York because of the talk that was
going the rounds of federal plans to pay for mail by the foot instead of by the
ounce or pound. The lines have placed through trains between the Pacific
and the Atlantic coasts and have shortened the time between New York and
San Francisco by one day. To the business man to whom time means money,
this is an important feature. It means that the hurried business man can
transact a greater amount of business between the points if he can save even
one day on his mail time. The threat that the roads have made is one that
the government has to take into consideration and which it, properly, did
consider when it was made. Though there is no apparent reason why the
people of the country should pay for the transportation of mail by the pound
when it may occupy but a small part of the space in the car, the government
J id not at that time take any steps to straighten out the tangle.
With the power in the hands of the roads to cut out this fast trans
continental service, something ought to be done by the government that
would give it a more complete control over its own mail lines and that would
enable the officials to handle the roads with the view to getting the best re
sults in the way of mail service for the whole people. If this scheme of the
department will do it or will show how it can be done, it is a good one.
Ffp HE PROPOSED CHARTER for our baby sister city across the
river is a work of art as charters go. ' One of the best charter author
ities Of Oregon had charge of the drawing of it and it any city ever
had a charter where the people rule West Linn will have one after December
29, 1913. .
The usual idea of politicians is "the people be damned" with enough
wool pulled over the statement so the people will vote on and pass what they
want, but West Linn's city charter committee's one idea seems to have been
"the people must rule" and almost every page of the document gives the peo
ple power which very few cities enjoy.
-' West Linn will likely vote YES strong enough to insure its passage.
PITY THE POOR RAILROAD. It is the real sufferer in the in
creased cost of living. With its vast amount of business and its tre
mendous working force, it has to face the prospects of increased wage
scales and higher salaried employes. President Bush of the Missouri Pacific
railroad sounds the weird wail of his brethren in the business when he tells
to the society of which he is a' member the dire calamities that are about to
befall the helpless corporations.
About every so often, some distinguished member of the railroad fra
ternity comes before the public with his little wail of trouble that is threaten
ing the corporations. He tells the people just how much, down to the frac
tion of a mill, that it costs him to run his own road, for instance, and the other
proportionately. He goes into lengthy details. He complains of the high
cost of living and the increase in wages. He says that little advances in the
freight rates or the charge for passenger traffic will not be felt by the public
but that they will save the poor old road from absolute ruin and complete
bankruptcy. He explains this on the theory that the business the roads do
is so great that the little increase which he says cannot be noticed by the
travelling public brings in great revenues for the lines and guides them safe
ly around the shoals and bars in the waters of bankruptcy.
It is a pitiful wail that the roads have the habit of distressing the people
with about once in six or eight months. The cry of the corporations usually
comes about the time that the various railroad commissions of the several
states awake to the fact that the companies have been grafting from the peo
ple for the past 10 years or longer and proceed with measures that will shake
them down on the exhorbitant charges that they have been making. The
commissions never make these cuts without fully going into the business of
the company and determining from the books and records just how much
such a cut would influence the business. The authorities never yet have cut
rates when those rates would ruin the business of any corporation. There
are cases on record where roads are charging exorbitant rates for transporta
tion both of freight and passengers and the cpmmission never objects because
the condition of the line would not permit the reduction of the rates.
There are cases of that kind in this state. The commission has taken
the correct view when it does not lower rates to such an extent that the lines
would go into bankruptcy but it also takes the correct view when a road is
charging rates that are exorbitant when the amount of business and the ac
tual transportation cost are taken into consideration.
But, the people are annually given this line of bunk from the corporation
managers in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses and arouse
public opinion against the reduction of charges, on the lines.
SELL OR TRADE
2 acres all improved, 6-room
house, good well, cemented;
good family orchard; all fenced
with woven wire fencing. $3000
part cash, balance on long
time or will trade for equal
value in Oregon City property.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
east and section 30, township 2 south,
range 2 east; $1.
Temple E. Door and wife to John J.
Rupp, S. W. section 8, all of S S.
W. section 9, township 2 south,
range 4 east; $10.
Charles A.'Priesing and wife to Em
ma D. Tscharner tract of land near
Milwaukie; $150.
The Molalla Land & Improvement
company to L. W. Robbins and wife,
lot 1, block 2 in Metzler & Hart's ad
dition to Molla; $10.
Joseph Anderegg to John Anderegg.
S. S. E. , section 1, township 2
south, range 3 east; $3000.
Herman A. Lee and wife to Aliza
beth Munder, lots 5 and 6, block 1, in
Lee's addition to Canby; $343.
- Temple E. Dorr and wife to John
J. Rupp, N. S. E. section 13,
township 2 south, range 3 east and
other tracts; $10.
JURY CONVICTS
POSTAL ROBBERS
(Continued from Page 1).
Morgen as a former prisoner in that
institution. He said that Morgen had
spent a year in the penitentiary un
der the name of Robinson on a charge
of paSSing "bad" checks.
The two men expressed utmost con
tempt for the Oregon City police who
arrested them. Morgen remarked
during the course of the trial, "Bliss
told me that he was sore because he
walked into the arms of some boob
cops in a bum town.1' -
Bliss and Morgen were arrested
early on the morning of October 14
by Officers Cook and -Woodward on a
charge of vagrancy. It was not until
the next day that they were connect
ed with the crime. All through the
course of the trial and during the time
preceeding it, the two men stoutly
maintained their innocence.
Chief of Police Ed Shaw, Officers
Cook and Woodward, of Oregon City,
and Ewald Leisman, of Willamette,
were witnesses. Robert M. Rankin,
United States deputy district attor
ney, prosecuted the case and Elton
Watkins and Colonel Leis C. Gar-
rigus represented the defendant.
CITY STATISTICS
FLECHTNER Born, to Mr. and Mrs.
Gustav Plechtner, (512 Center street,
a daughter.
ANDERSON Born, to Mr. and Mrs.
T. is. Anderson, K. F. D. No. 2, a
daughter.
Read the Enterprise for the news.
Money is one of the greatest money,
makers. Bank your savings; they
will make money for you.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers filed with the
county recorder Tuesday are as fol
tract of land in section 6, township 3
Arson S. Cove to Sarah A. Cove,
south, range 1 east, near the Pudding
river; $1.
Alfred P. Sneider and wife-to Em
ma Johnson, lot 3 and 4, block 28, Bol
ton; $100.
George M. B. Jones to Corfix Soren
sen and wife, 1 acres in N. E. corner
N. W. 4 N. W. section 24, township
2 south, range 2 east; $800.
. Eugene Cumins and wife to B. F.
Pond, N. W. V N. W. section 17,
and N. E. V N E. 1-4 section 18,
township 4 south, range 3 east; $1.
George Gersey to Alonza Gersey,
one-third interest in S. W. N. E.
section 6. township 6 south, range 3
east; $1.
W. A. Aloorn and wife to Elizabeth
Grumm lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 17, ,
18, and 20 in block 5, Brightwood; !
$10. . !
' East Side Mill and Lumber ; com-1
pany to W. F. Douglas, E. N. W. Vz i
S. E. V of section 2, township 2 south, i
range 4 east; $800. j
, Elmer Jones to Jonathan G. Idd--j
ings and wife, S. E. corner S. S. E. I
section 22, township 5 south, range j
1 east; $467.50. - - , " :
Frances A. Atwood and wife " to
Rowland F. Walters, tract of land in
Daniel Hathaways D. L. C; $10.
George E. Waggoner and wife to
Thomas Prince, tract of land In Dam
iel D. Thompkins D. L. C, in sections
23, 34, 25, township 2 south, range 1
"He Gave Me That For
Christmas"
OFTEN YOU HAVE HEARD
that expression, and you will al
ways notice that the gift is one
that combines beauty and . useful
ness. ; ' '
For. a good substantial Christ
mas present, there is nothing that
beats an American Beauty Electric
Percolator. The easiest and best
way of making coffee.. Makes
coffee quicker and better. A fine
thing for the breakfast table.
You will make . your wife,
mother or sweetheart happy by
giving her an American Beauty
Electric Toaster.
MILLER-PARKER CO.
. : 609 Main Street
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER COMPANY
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
Heart to Heart
Talks
"THIS HOUSE WHICH I HAVE
BUILDED."
Stands your house of life firmly
founded on a .rock, .or is it builded oa
.the shifting sands of fortune?
Have you buttressed it with truth
and honor, with the love of family and
of friends, strengthening the walls
where they need re-enforcement with
the doing of kindly offices that are so
often forgotten?
Is your house of life firm? -
When Henry Winstanley, famous
English engineer, brought to comple
tion what he thought was his best
work, the Eddystone lighthouse, he
stood aside and rejoiced in the labor
of his brains.
"It is a worthy structure,'' he said
aloud. "It will stand for ages. Oh,
how I should like to be here in the
fiercest storm that ever blew and see
how the wind and sea should beat In
vain against my work!"
The fierce storm came. Winstanley
stood in his house of pride and watch
ed the strife outside. '
"It holds fast! It holds fast!" he
cried.
But the winds and the rain and the
storm proved too much for the Eddy
stone lighthouse, and in its wreck it
bore down to death the man who
built it.
. We build ourselves lighthouses of
pride and ,power. We rear them In
wealth and honor. They will last for
the ages, we believe ; How we pride
ourselves on our position, our riches,
our standing in our communities!
But we fail to found our lighthouses
on the eternal verities of truth and hon
or and love. And the storm comes the
"fiercest storm that ever blew" to all
of us, and down come our lighthouses.
We go down with them, often to
death and ruin.
Other builders of other lighthouses
follow us.
Their structures rear themselves
against the heavens and totter and fall.
Finally comes one man with the secret
of laying a proper foundation.
The Eddystone lighthouse not Win
stanley's still lights the coast of Eng
land for the mariner. " Its powerful
warning light tells of concealed rocks
and shoals. By its beacon the sailor
steers his vessel aright.
But no material warning it carries
across the waters is stronger than the
moral lesson it teaches of Winstanley,
the builder who longed for "the fiercest
storm that ever blew," that he might
see how well his lighthouse should
withstand it
Bringing the
Store Windows
To Your House
It used to be when you wanted
to know what the stores were
showing, you at least had to go
down town and look at the win
dows. -
Nowadays the merchants dress
new show windows for you each
day in their advertisments in
your favorite daily newspaper
like the ENTERPRISE.
Their advertisements represent
the newest and most attractive
merchandizing thoughts they can
find.
' They are up to the minute
live inviting.
Is it any wonder that the adver
tisements are often more interest
ing news than you will find else
where in your newspapers?
Wants, For Sale, Etc
FRR SALE.
DIAMONDS FOR SALE I have three .
cluster diamond rings for sale, Jf
cheap. Nice Xmas present for lady.
Phone Main 1S02.
LOST AND FOUND
LOST Elk's pin, between postoffice
and 13th and Main. Return to
cashier Huntley Bros. Reward.
LOST Brown fox fur collar with two
tails between Eleventh and Center
and postoffice. Return to Miss
Marie E. Libkur, care Dr. Ice, 1101
Center street.
Sought After,
"A'fter you became wealthy," said
the biographer, "you found yourself
much sought after?"
"Yes." replied Dustin Stax, "by an
investigating committee." Washington
Star.
Especially.
Moralist The outsider who buys
stocks is a gambler, pure and simple.
Ticker Especially simple. Judge.
The Glass Snake.
The slowworm is the snake which
country people tell you has the pecu
liar property of breaking itself into
bits, each piece afterward surviving.
The truth differs slightly from the leg
end. The slowworm is a timid crea
ture and when first captured tightens
all its muscles, thus reducing itself to
a remarkably rigid state, in which con
dition it will no doubt snap like a dry
twigf but, needless to say, only the
upper and vital portions survive the or
deal. London-Globe.
: Get the news read the Enterprise.
FOR RENT.
A. L. A R MINE supplies wood at J5.00
per cord, green or dry. Address
1403 Seventh street, city, or tele
phone Main 124.
L. AUSTIN, the tailor, for men and
women. Suits made to your meas
ure, alterations and refitting. Prices
reasonable, Room 9, Barclay building.
Administrator's Notice to Creditors,
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been duly appointed by
the county court of Clackamas coun
ty, Oregon, and has qaulified as ad
ministrator of the estate of Jacob
Spagla, deceased, late of said coun
ty and state. Persons having claims
against said estate are hereby no
tified to file the same, duly veri
fied according to law, with my at
torney, C. H. Dye, at the southwest
corner of 8th and Main streets, Ore
gon City, Oregon, for adjustment
and payment, within six monf&s
from the date of this notice.
Dated November 12, 1913. ',
CHARLES F. SPAGLA,
Administrator.
C. H. DYE,
Attorney for Estate.
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO
Wood and eoa, 4-foot and 16-inch,
lengths, delivered t all parts of
city; saving especially. Phono
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
A128'. F. M. BLTJHM
L. G. ICE. DENTIST S
Beaver Bui'ding ;
S Phones: Main 1221 or A-193 S
Pabst's Okay Specific
Does the worK. You all fyry (f
know It by reputation. UU
: Price YU
FOR SALE BY
JONES DRUG COMPANY
D. C. LATOURETTB, Preidnt.
F. J. MEYER, Cashier.
THE FIRST (NATIONAL BANK
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
CAPfTAL $50300 00 4 '
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