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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1920)
Eastern Clackamas News K'lUTcd at the poatoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon lJETON H. GIBBS Editor and Manager. S im sm irrio N One year Six month* Thursday, October 21, 1920 EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS P *ge Four . R atios . . . . $1.50 . .75 I'ureiK» A d v rrt i * i n { K pr<- ..■•ntative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIAT ION Thursday. October 21. li)20 R s p u b lic a n s N o t Opposed to a League A statement has been issued above the signatures of thirty-one prominent men, who have advo cated some form of international agreement, and are supporting Senator Harding for president. Among the names are those of Hlihu R o o t, Herbert Hoover, Lawrence A. Lowell, W. H. Taft, Nicholas Murray Butler. Charles E. Hughes and Lyman Abbott. After stating that the under signed desire that the “ U.S. shall do her full part in association with other civilized nations to prevent war,” they state the question is not whether our coun try shall join such an association but whether “ we shall join under an agreement containing the ex act provision negotiated by Presi dent Wilson at Paris, or under an agreement which omits or modifies some of those provisions which ere very objectionable to groat numbers of the American people.” This we take it, is the position of the vast majority of those supporting the republican ticket. They do not desire that there shall he no league hut the reverse, and they point to Senator Hard ing’s speech of August 2Sth, to show that he is of t h e same mind. According to them the V\ ilson league is dead, and there is n o possibility o f i t s being passed even if the Democrats should win the election, as they cannot in any case command a sufficient number of v o t e s to secure its ratification. The Dem ocrats are pledged to the Wilson league absolutely, so only Repub licans are free to draw a new one. They consider that they are in no wise obligated to vote for a measure which has no prospect of acceptance, especially when it entails with it the continuance in power of a party v\ hich has shown its inefficiency in too many re spects. The editor of the N ews at first was in favor of the Anti-Vaci- nation measure, deeming it only a protection to individual rights. But since then in reading criti cisms of the bill he has come to the opinion that it is far more reaching than it appears on the surface. So that his readers may he informed as to what may pos sibly be the result, he publishes the following article from the Oregon Voter of October 16, so they can better judge for them selves how they will vote on the measure. JOKERS IN VACCINE BILL “Just what may be the effect of the pending anti-vaccination constitutional amendment is now beginning to appear. Its prohi bition of compulsory vaccination is ihe smallest part of what it prevents. It also forbids com pulsory medication of any kind, which means that the state could enforce no precautions of a medi cal character to cope with any piospective or actual epidemic. No pupil could be kept out of any school for failing to undergo medication in such form as to prevent contagion. No matter how loathesomo a disease an em ploye might be suffering from, it would be unconstitutional under the terms of this proposed amend ment to require him to take medi cal precautions to prevent con tagion a s a condition o f his working with other people. A man suffering from infectious disease could not be kept from i mployment in a bakery, restau rant or otherwise in the prepara tion of foods. We doubt whether the proponents of this measure had anything so radical fcs this in mind, akhongh they may have had. The effect of a constitu tional prohibition of this kind on health measures is to be dreaded. Simply to forbid compulsory vac cination is dangerous enough, hut also to deny the state’s right to insist on necessary medication to prevent contagion is infinitely worse. To protect as far as pos sible from exposure to contagion is a duty of government, and the ratification of this amendment wou'd render government power less to deal with contagious dir- e ise of epidemics. ” The venerable Cardinal Cibhons who was strenuously opposed to woman suffrage, now that it is an accomplished fact, is urging women to vote, even the nuns, as a pubiic duty. In this he shows his wisdom and sets an example. While a measure is under discus sion oppose it if you will, hut when it becomes law accept it with good grace. The miners in England against the advice of their best leaders, have called a strike, which is ominous in its proportions and wide reaching effpct. But it is hound to fail, as it is against the people of England, and the gov ernment will have the support of the nation in suppressing if. The indications show Harding well in the lead. The crucial point is how the senate will go. If Harding is elected and the Democrats have a majority in the senate, it is more than probable much needed legislation will be held up indefinitely. Brother Editor 111 We wish to express our sincere sympathy to H. L. St. Clair of the Gresham Outlook, who is ser iously ill with pneumonia. Bro. St. Clair has been a good friend to us and our earnest hope is for his speedy convalescence. Estacada Boy in India Clarence Bullard son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Bullard, is work ing in an iron and steel plant 150 miles from Calcutta in East In dia. When his ship arrived in that port, he had an attack of appendicitis and was taken to the hospital. By the time he was able to be out his ship had gone, so he had to seek another job He expects to be there about a year. C. S. Allen is another whose name has been added to the bal lot by petition*, as a candidate for councilman. School Entei tainment The Mozart Ladies’ Quartet of the Ellison-White Lyceum Bu reau, will appear at the High S c h o o l auditorium • tomorrow evening. They come highly re commended and there is no doubt that the entertainment will be of an exceptional o r d e r . Those having season tickets certainly will be present. For others the price of admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 for children. The course is given under the aus pices of the High School senior class. 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