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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1919)
w I * SLOGAN: Community Cooperation. 0 £//? J&À K E E P YOUR EY E ON E S T A C A D A ! kantas Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County a 4 ? V olume 12, N umber 41 E stacada , O regon , T hursday , J uly 3, 1919 $1.50 P er Y ear GOOD I I I S AHEAD A number of surveyors and a crewof men are at work at South Fork. It is currently re ported that the P. R. L. & P. Co. is reviving the project of build ing1 a new power plant there, which was abandoned last year on account of the war. It is de- . voutly to be hoped that this sup position will prove ,true. Tho it is not advisable to count chickens before they are hatched, yet if the Mt. Hood Loop road comes this way, and this power dam is installed at South Fork, Estaca da will have a boom of no small proportions. It looks as if “the winter of our discontent,“ will soon be made glorious summer by the sun of prosperity. Home Again Mr. and Mrs. S. Pesznecker and son ueo returned from Cali fornia last Thursday night. They went in their car with tho Bart- letts and Sparks, but parted com pany at Oakland, Calif. Mr. Pesznecker says they had a da* lightful time, visiting at Palo Alto, Alameda and other points. He is much impressed with the California roads, the main ones being paved. There is now a paved road from Redding to Oakland and the state will vote this month fortv millions for road purposes. H e. greatly commended the provision for cheap amusement, furnished in the California cities, where there are numerous play grounds for chilnren and adults. They came back by way of Klamath Falls, Bend and Madras thru central Oregon, w’here the roads were rough and dusty. But the only mishjaps were two blow outs. He is glad to be home again though. One thing he noticed in California was that the water was very poor. Well heretofore the Californians did not have much use for water for drinking purposes but now they jvill prob ably develop this natural product seeing that their more accus tomed beverages have been cut off. ARE 10 CLOSE L TO THE The signing of peace and the President’s proclamation as to its significance, which we give below, come very appropriately only a week before our own National day of Independence. What tip' Dec laration ol Independence did for us, the treaty of Versailles with tin* covenant ol the League of Nations, may in alter years prove to have done for the whole world. M Y THE PROCLAMATION FELLO W COl TNT RYM EN: The treaty of peace has been signed. If ¡1 is ratified and acted upon in full and sincere execution of its terms, it will furnish the charter for a new order of affairs in the world. It is a severe treaty in the duties and penalties it imposes upon Germany, but it is severe only because the great wrongs done by Germany are to be righted and repaired; it imposes nothing that Germany cannot do; and she can regain her rightful standing in the world by the prompt and honor able fulfillment of its terms. And it is much more than a treaty of peace with Germany. It lib erates great peoples who have never before been able to find the way to liberty. It ends, once for all. an old and intolerable order under which small groups of selfish men could use tin* people of great em pires to serve their own ambitions for power and dominion. It associates the free governments of the world in a permanent league in which they are pledged to use their united power to main tain peace by maintaining right and justice. It makes international law a reality, supported by imperative sanctions. It does away with the light of conquest, and rejects the policy of annexation, and sub stitutes a new order, under which backward nations—populations which have not yet come to political consciousness and peoples who are ready for independence, but not yet quit»* prepared to dispense with protection and guidance—shall no more be subjected to the dom ination and exploitation of a stronger nation, but shall be put under the friendly direction and afforded the helpful assistance of govern ments which undertake to be responsible to'the opinion of mankind in the execution of their task by accepting the direction of the League of Nations. It recognizes the alienable rights of nationalities; the rights of minorities and the sanctity of religious beliefs and practice. It lays the basis for conventions which shall free the commercial intercourse of the world from unjust and vexatious restrictions and for every soil of international cooperation that will serve to cleans«* the life of the world and facilitate its common action with benelieimt servic»* of every kind. It furnishes guarantees such as were never given or even contem plated before for tin* fair treatment of all who labor at the daily tasks of the world. It is for this reason that I have spoken of it as a great charter for a new order of affair. There is ground here for de«*p satisfaction, univ»*rsal reassurance and confident hope. WOODROW WILSON. We the undersigned Business houses of Estaeada, Ore., »lo hereby agree to keep our places closed from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., July 4th, 1919. East Ciackamas Supply Co. (J. F. L.) McWillis & Me Willis Estaeada Feed (To. Bert II. Finch J. K. Ely & Son G. H. Lichthorn Wm. Dale I. M. Park J. C. Hillman Eastern Clackamas News DOVER LINES UP The Dover school house was filled last Monday evening, with an audience keenly interested in the Mt. Hood Loop road project. It was presided over by H. H. Udell who called on about every man present to speak and ex press his opinion. Nearly every one spoke in favor, two or three offering some objections, but were apparenty converted. The paper pledging a special 10 mills tax was numerously signed. A gentleman from Portland, Mr. Magee, a homesteader in the’ vi cinity, passed around a letter he was addressing to County Judge Anderson on the subject, in which he promised a donation of $100 and a like sum from a lady who owns the place adjoin ing his, provided the road went thru the district. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stephens, S. E. Wooster, R. C. Deming and the editor of the N ews formed the Estaeada contingent. » Logan Follows Suit Monday evening the road meet-* ing in this district, proved some what exciting, owing to a differ ence of opinion between two es- umable residents. However peace was restore»! and those present came out strongly for the Mt. Hooo road, and all signed the roll, pledging themselves to a special tax, like the other dis tricts.