OUR SLOGAN: NEWSPAPERS Are What the Community Makes Them Community Cooperation (üarkamafi N ruts Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County V olume 12, >l<; N umber 12 PRESIDENT ASKS ALL TO JOIN RED GROSS A m ericans C alled U pon to Prove to W orld th a tN a tio n ’s In d ifferen ce is G one. i . * E stacada , O regon , T hursday , D ecember 12, 1918 E veryone Should A tten d this Good R oads M eeting C haplain G ivens H om e on L eave A meeting is to be held at Bar ton Saturday afternoon a t 1:30 to discuss the county budget, es pecially in regard to roads and pavement of same. This is a move in the right dir ection and everyone in Eastern Clackamas county, interested in good roads should be present. It would be a good thing and is certainly due this part of the county, for the people to have one of the county’s pavement plants located at some point on the P. R. L. & P. Co.’s line, and the same put into operation on the main highways. Chaplain Lieut. Givens arrived home for a short furlough Mon day evening. He says that prob ably ninety per cent of the men at Camp Worden will revive their discharge within thirty days. This number will amount to over 2,000. Of the officers some will be relieved immediately, others will stay on during the reorgani zation period, which will take from two to six months, and the remainder have signified their desire to enlist in the regular ar my. He himself will stay thro- out the reorganization period. The flu situation has been most serious, seven hundred cases with seventy deaths. Doctors, nurses and other help were rushed to death. He served three weeks, twenty hours a day in the emer gency hospital. Tho everything possible was done for the patients some cases would not respond to treatment. A man’s chances seemed better on the battle field, than with the flu. Estacada may be thankful that so far it has been practically immune. To thé American people— One year ago 22,000,000 Amer icans, by enrolling as members of the Red Cross at Christmas time, sent to the men who were fighting our battles overseas a stimulating message of cheer and goodwill. * * Now by God’s grace, the Red Cross Christmas message of 1918 is to be a message of peace, as well as a message of good will. . But peace does not mean we can O pening of th e S ta r T h ea tre. fold our hands. It means fur The general public will be glad ther sacrifice. We must prove to hear that the above theatre conclusively to an attentive world under the management of W. W. that America is permanently a- Boner, will open up Saturday at roused to the needs of the new 7:30 p. m. For some time the era, our old indifference gone for lack of such amusement has been ever. felt by the city, which will now The exact nature of the future be remedied. But the public service of the Red Cross will de should see that it receives suffi pend upon the program of the cient support so it does not re associated governm ents, but sult in a financial loss. Only there is immediate need today, high class plays will be given. for every heartening word and For the opening night, William for every helpful service. We S. Hart will be featured in one of must not forget that our soldiers his latest plays. The prices may and sailors are still under orders seem somewhat high, but as the and still have duties to perform government receives three cents of the highest consequence, and out of every ten or fraction there that the Red Cross Christmas of and one cent on every ticket membership means a great deal for children under twelve, and a to them. The people of the sad further tax on the films, and the dened lands, moreover, returning government and city license in home today where there are no addition, it is impossible to lower homes, must have the assurance them for high class films. There that the hearts of our people are will be two or three runs. with them in the dark and doubt ful days ahead. Let us, so far as we can, help them back to D evore S ettles w ith C ity. faith in mercy and in future hap piness. The many friends of Claude W As president of th Red Cross, Devore, late city recorder, will conscious in this great hour of be gratified to learn that he has the value of such a message from made full settlement with the city the American people, I should be for the shortage in his accounts. glad if every American would We understand that he turned join the Red Cross for 1919, and in a thousand dollars for this pur thus send forth to the whole hu pose. Thus an unpleasant inci man family the Christmas greet dent is now satisfactorily closed. ing for which it stands in great- Since his departure he has been e3t WOODROW WILSON. very ill but is now better. 0 U niversity E xtension L ecture Estacada is especially fortun ate this week in having from the University of Oregon, an array of talent for dramatic readings, lectures and violin recital. The object of this gathering is com munity benefit, enjoyment and uplift. Rarely can a small com munity secure such high class services without great expense, but when the local schools put themselves in the way of co-op erating with the state institu tions much can be done. When we consider that the U. of 0. is sending four prominent faculty members without charge to Estacada for the sole purpose of developing community spirit and interest, it will be a disap pointment if every one who is able to do so, is not present for the enjoyment of the occasion. The Rev. J. F. Dunlop attend ed an important Methodist min isters’ meeting, in Portland, Tuesday. $1.50 P er Y ear CLACKAMAS COUNTY TEACHECS'ASSOCIATION H alf of th e E stacada T each ers W ere in A tten d an ce a t this M eeting. The above association convened at the High School building, Ore gon City, Saturday, December 7th. Half the Estacada teachers were in attendance. The meet ing was enjoyable and profitable throughout. The meeting opened with the singing of patriotic songs at 10:30 a. m. E. D. Resseler h£ad of the department of education O. A. C. then delivered an able address on the desirability of co operation and professional organ ization among the teachers, be lieving that by such means is a teacher not only advanced pro fessionally, but the cause of edu cation is also given its proper place in the vocational field. The principal address of the afternoon was made by H. H. Herdman, Principal of the Wash ington High School on "Discip line and Morals in the High School.” Mr. Herdman takes the view that the development of the sense of responsibility in the student is a prime factor in his moral development, and that the real aim in such development may be lost sight of by paying too much attention to inconsequential detailB. An interval of violin music was moat thoroughly enjoyed by all after which the high school and the grade teachers met separate ly for special discussion of per tinent problems of school work. Red Cross Notice The Red Cross will meet but once a week hereafter on Wed nesday for all day, instead of two afternoons each week. Christmas week there will be no meeting. The auxiliary extends its thanks to Mr. Bullard for a liberal don ation of wood for use in the Red Cross room, and also to Arnold Lovelace and Herbert Dunlop for taking it in.