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Eastern Clackamas News
Entered at the poatoffice in Estacada,
Oregon, as second-ciaaa mail.
Published every Thursday at
Estacada, Oregon
of right and duty, tho at the
start rough, arduous and beset
with difficulty, is the path to
success in its truest sense and of
a character which is permanent.
Two Notable
UPTON H. GIBBS
Editor and Manager.
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Thursday, Feb. 6, 1919
A Man of Ideals
In the death of Henry L.
Pittock, publisher of the Oregon
ian, Portland has lot^t a citizen
who was connected with it for
sixty-five years, and who • had
much to do with its larger growth
and development. The record of
his career reads like a romance,
and is typical of that of the city
itself.
Both had small begin
nings and both attained enviable
distinction.
Who, when Henry
Pittock arrived in Portland, then
consisting of a straggling, street
along the Willamette front, would
have visioned the present fair
city of roses spreading out over
territory which was at that time
virgin forest. Did Henry Pittock,
as he worked in the little frame
one storied office, ever have a
glirnering of the stately structure
which now houses The Oregonian
in its maturity? Possibly not,
but in those early days, he form
ed the ideals which were to bring
him such enviable results. For
he was a man with ideals which
he steadfastly pursued and main
tained thro good and ill report.
These are well expressed in the
character sketch given in his
paper.
“The road of right and duty,
and good faith might be beset
with real perils, but he took it
always because it was for him
the only way which men of con
science and institutions of charac
ter could travel.
He faced in
such circumstances the penalty
of material disaster with calm
ness and even with serenity.
Few know, for illustration, the
cost to The Oregonian of its fight
for sound money in the ’90s,
made under the Mr. Scott as
editor of The Oregonian with the
active encouragement and unfalt
ering support of Mr. Pittock. It
was very great; but it was. never
theless, made because honest
men, under the driving impulse
of an honest conviction, were
conducting an honest journal for
an honest cause.
The lessor to be learned from
this, of which the life of Henry
L. Pittock furnishes a striking
concrete example, is that the path
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February is the month in
which fall the birthday anniver
saries of our two most notable
presidents, those of Washington
and Lincoln. It is not possible
to decide which of the two was
the greater. From chronologi
cal reasons, Washington has al
ways been placed first, but the
question is one that can hardly
be decided on its merits, and al
ways will remain an open one.
For years there was no dispute
concerning who had the prece
dence, % but of late years Lincoln’s
worth and greatness have been
more and more increasingly per
ceived and estimated. But for
tunately it is an immaterial ques
tion, both men were great, and
for the same reason, that of
great service to their country.
Both faced great crises and both
rose to the opportunity at the
cost of heroic self sacrifice. It
would be difficult to find two men
presenting greater outward con
trasts to each other, who were
yet inw’ardly alike in those quali
ties of soul, which make a man
truly great. On Wednesday next
Lincoln the former railsplitter
will be commemorated, while ten
days later, Washington the aris
tocratic, landed gent l eman.
That which differentiated them
was only accidental and epheme
ral, while that which unified them
was inherent and lasting.
The strike situation at Seattle
is ominous, and it is to be hoped
that Governor Lister will be firm
in handling it. We do not wish
to play the role of an alarmist,
yet it is our conviction that these
.strikes contain the germs of re
bellion and anarchy, which may
bring about civil war.
In the
words of the ancient Litany:
“ From all sedition, privy con
spiracy and rebellion, Good Lord
deliver us.”
We agree with the Oregonian
that the State senate was hasty
in voting for the elimination of
German from all the state aided
schools. It is all very well to e-
liminate it from the public schools
but in the university and colle
ges, such action would be foolish. »
A knowledge of German is just
as valuable now as ever it was,
and in our opinion, it will become
more so in the future as a scien
tific and business asset.
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SPECIAL THIS WEEK
Anniversaries.
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One year
Six months
Thursday, February 6. 1919
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
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