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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1918)
Eastern Clackamas News Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon UPTON H. GIBKS Editor and Manager. S ubscription R a te s One year . . . Six months - $1.50 .75 Thursday, Oct. 24, 1918 E x p erien ce T ea ch es A striking illustration of pub licity has come to light within the past three weeks. The illustrat ion bears a moral which should be of interest to every voter. The State Liberty Loan sent out pledge cards broadcast over the state to notify patriotic citi zens to come in and voluntarily purchase Liberty Bonds during “ Honor Week.” preceding the efficient campaign. Did the voters respond? They did not. In fact no attention was paid to the cards by 90 per cent of the people. The situation became desperate when, on the evening before September 28th, the state was short about five million dollars in bonds. Then a new plan was tried. The loan organization sent “ per sonal notices” out through the newspapers, by publishing the names of a few Portland slackers and some others over the state. Within three days Portland and the state at large slid over the top. The result was a highly agreeable surprise. Mail notice, it can be seen, is not always effective. The Portland Journal's cam paign to eliminate the publication of the delinquent tax lists is not meeting with the approval of the taxpayers of Oregon. In the first place it is a campaign of mal ice. of spitework, against the press of the state. In the second place the existing tax publication law of Oregon is fashioned to serve the taxpayer and not the title grabber. The present law provides publication, but only after mail notices have been sent out and have failed to notify. Publication is not for those who pay but for those who have failed to receive proper notice. ( ould any fairer scheme be devised i.et the present law alone. It works to your advantage even if it does not please the title grab ber. ‘ 1 Thursday, October 24, 1918 EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS Page Four ‘ * * “ C om ing into H is O w n A gain The most ardent opponent of a monarcnical system, may quite consistently rejoice that King Albert is coming into his ow n a- gain. When the German army hail entered Brussels and cap tured all of Belgium except a small, sandy strip in the extreme north west corner, the London Punch published one of its most striking cartoons. This repre sented King Albert and the Kaiser. The latter pointing to the smoking ruins of Belgium in the back ground, sneeringly re marks to the former “ You have lost all.” “No”’ rejoins Albert, “ I have kept my soul.” In so doing he had kept every thing. Contrary to all appear ances, it was the Kaiser who had lost everything. “ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul!” The recent turn in events on the western and eastern war fronts, is proving this. Albert is returning enrich ed, while the Kaiser is fast los ing all, materially as well as morally. Since the day his troops over ran Luxemburg, and his chancell or tore up the treaty with Belgium, and his invading armies burnt, ravaged and massacred its in habitants, he became morally discredited and bankrupt. But now his military prestige, his war prizes, his throne are slipping away from him. The words which Lord Byron wrote of Napoleon after Waterloo, will soon be applicable to him: “ Tis done, but yesterday a king, And armed with kings to strive; But now, thou art a nameless thing, More abject than alive.” Albert of Belgium will go down into history as a shining example of kingly worth, knightly honor and all that makes a man, while William II of Germany will stand for the reverse. ! t GROCERIES THE BEST STOCK THE MARKET AFFORDS. PRICES ARE HIGH AND GOING HIGHER-BUT OUR PRICES WILL A L W A Y S B E FOUND REASONABLE. The Very Best Service to be Had COURTEOUS ATTENDANCE TO EVERY DETAIL OF THE BUSI NESS. L. A. Chapman E sta ca d a , O regon ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Undertaking and Embalming + ♦ ♦ * * L A. Chapman Licensed Embalmer Phone Store or Residence + + ♦ + + + + + + ♦ ♦ The News is In favor of the bill for establishing and maint aining two new normal schools, one in Southern and one in East ern Oregon. These are vitally necessary for the efficency of what is,after all the most import ant department in our state school system, that of the grade and rural schools. These schools come in contact with the children at their most impressionable age, and their sub sequent careers are often deter mined by what they then acquire. The educational foundation laid in this period is most vital, be cause on it depends whether or not the pupil shall be handicapped in his future educational career, by having to rebuild what should have then been well and truly laid. Its a poor time to experiment along socialist lines as advocated by the Non-Partisan league as it would upset business and throw the state into con fusion just when it will have to meet after war problems. ♦ ♦ * Operating + Hearse and Morgue ♦ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ R. G. M archbank T h e N orm al S ch ools Bill Estacada - E stacada, Or. 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