EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 6,1924.
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Eastern Clackamas News
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Entered at the poatoffice in Estaeada,
Oregon, as aecond-class mail.
Published every Thursday at
Estaeada. Oregon
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UPTON H. (HUBS
for Good
Editor and Manager.
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THOUGHT
TODAY —
Thmiifht* memoritad, will prove a
priceless heritage in a fte r year».
I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments and do
them. And ye shall dwell in the land
that 1 gave to your fathers; and ye
shall be my people, and I will be your
God.—Ezckial 3(1 :27, 2k.
THE H UM AN M A K EU P
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By virtue of his threefold na­
ture, body, soul and spirit, a
man is endowed with certain
faculties with which to operate
in life, physical, psychical and
spiritual. The body has its ap­
petites. passions and emotions;
the soul has its intelligence, feel­
ing and will; the spirit its moral
perceptions, discernment be­
tween right and wrong, con­
science and aspiration after God.
Each group of faculties is for
use in its particular sphere for
the development of its life.
Herbert Sper.cer defines life as
consisting in correspondence
with environment. As long as
this is maintained, life exists
and its absence is death. This
definition has been extended to
show that this correspondence is
mutual. An organism corres­
ponds with its environment, and
the environment corresponds
with the organism with mutual
effect, each influencing the other.
The more active this mutual
correspondence between the or­
ganism and environment, the
more abundant the life. The
athlete gets a great deal more
out of physical life than one who
leads a sedentary one; the scholar
enjoys a more abundant intel­
lectual life than the ignorant
peasant; and the same is true
in the spiritual life, those who
live it derive a greater develop­
ment, and possession of it in lar­
ger measure than those who do
not. Faculties then imply their
use and an environment in which
they can be exercised, otherwise
they are meaningless.
By virtue of his personality a
man is a responsible being and
is held accountable for his ac­
tions. This accountability is of
a moral nature, being based on
the standard of right and wrong.
Not being self originating, his
life is a gift and a trust, ac­
countable in the last resort
to the giver of it, God. Daniel
Webster declared that the great­
est thought which had ever en­
tered his mind, was his personal
responsibility to a personal God.
Man is then morally responsible
for his life, and what he makes
of it. He cannot get around
this, and this responsibility ex­
tends to the full round of his
life. Many men are careful
■bout the development of their
physical and intellectual life, but
heedless about their spiritual
life. This a fatal mistake for it
is as essential a part of their
natural endowment as either the
physical or intellectual. They
»re given it with its faculties,
and they will have to render an
account of their use or non-use
of it. The parable of the talents
in the New Testament teaches
that non-use is as condemnatory
as wrong use, nav more so, for
non-use necessarily entails atro­
phy. which is death, whereas a
wrong use keeps the faculties
active and alive, which may be
turned to a right use when a
man finds out his mistake.
A man then must develop ac­
cording to the complete measure
of his nature, by the use of all
forced to quit business during are marketed, so that he can use
the condition to break the price
the past three ytars.
And so on, a long schedule to the producer. He doesn’t
could be quoted. What a ridicu­ want this country to absorb the
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lous system, what needless “over-production” , he does want
Eastman Kodaks
waste, work, expense and mid­ the demand for any commodity
dle profit—shipping our so-called exhausted. He plays both ends
and Supplies
‘‘surplus stock” to Europe and against both the producer and
at my temporary location in
bringing back about as much of consumer.
LINN’S RESTAURANT
With foreign agricultural pro­
the same stock.
Leave Films there to be developed
ducts
shut
out
and
middlemen
"Over-production, ” we hear
of this condition on every hand. squeezed out, both the producer
Perhaps it is under-consumption j and consumer would greatly
caused by the high expense of j benefit.
joyriding our products to Eu-1
Yesterday was Ash Wednes­
rope and bringing like ones home
day,
the beginning of the Lenten
again. But be it either, would
I. O .O . F.
season.
To the devout it is a
it not be a good idea to so in- j
Estaeada
Lodge
crease the tariff on these pro-1 spiritual opportunity and privi­
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ducts that importers cannot come1 lege, and to society a chance to
Meets every Saturday evening in
in here and take the market let up on the social whirl and get
their lodge room, corner of Bioad-
a
little
rest.
Both
should
wel­
way and Third streets. Visiting
away from American farmers?
brothers are always welcome.
come it.
There is a vast difference be­
.1. H. Tracy, N. G.
tween the living and wage stan­ When you need a watch, ring,
J. K. Ely, Secretary,
dards of the United States and etc., see A. N. Johnson. 5-10-tf
every country of Europe, Asia
and Africa. Since the war the
differences have increased. This
country simply cannot compete
with other nations and their low
production costs. The present
tariff schedules are of little ef­
fect in keeping out products that
undersell us.
The tariff on beef is three cents
per pound. Of what benefit is
that to the Oregon stockmen
who are going broke every dav?
Thu tariff on eggs is eight cents,
THIS BANK receives from the United States
yet almost $7,000,000 of Chinese
Department of Agriculture daily reports showing
and other foreign products get
receipts, sales and prices the previous day on all
by and help to put the poultry-
men out of business. Suppose
the principal live stock markets of the country.
that the $36,000,000 worth of
T H E S E reports are posted in our lobby for the
dairy products that are brought
information
and convenience of our customers in­
in here to compete with Ameri­
terested
in
such
matters.
can farmers did not come in?
Would not there be a market for
$36,000,000 more of the dairy
products of America?
The absurdity of shipping mill­
ions of dollars worth of our ag­
ricultural products abroad each
year to get rid of our “surplus”
P. S. This week our Savings Deposits reached
and then bringing back nearly
the highest point in the history of the Bank.
the same amount of like cheap
Join
the Thrift family.
European products, should be
apparent to anyone who will
study export and import sched­
FOUR Per Cent Interest on Time and Savings Deposits
ules.
What American agriculture
needs now is protection against
the foreign countries that can
beat us in the cost of production,
and elimination of much of the
legion of middle interests and
profiteers between the farm and
the retail store. The middle man
has no interest in that all crops
his faculties, and the requisite
provision is made for this pur­
pose. Examination of the con­
dition of his nature shows that
it is social in character, for he
is born into a social environment.
Neither physically, intellectually
or morally can he de ve l op
without respect to his fellow
men. The first years of his life
are passed in utter dependence
on the ministrations of others,
without which he would speedily
perish.
Human life is social and must
be lived accordingly. Thus out
of this necessity arise three
great institutions for its devel­
opment, the family, state and
church. Wherever groups of
human beings are found, these
three institutions will likewise
be found. They are not arbitra­
rily devised, hut are due to the
fundamental fact that life is so­
cial. whether physical, psychi­
cal or spiritual, and this com­
pels men to come together in or­
ganized groups in order that
they may live, and move and
have their being, according to
the law of their common human
nature.
THE OIL SCANDAL
Just as a drop of oil wehn it
falls on the ground spreads out
in extended circumference, so
the Teapot Dome oil revelations
are extending over a wide spread
area. But while probably the oil
interests used questionable meth­
ods to get hold of the leases, yet
it is by no means proved that
these leases were not to the ad­
vantage of the government.
Dr. E. H. Pence, pastor of the
Westminster P r e s b y t e r i a n
church of Portland, and a per­
sonal friend of the former Secre­
tary of the Interior, Denby, last
Sunday morning in pleading
against condemning public of­
ficials on mere surmises, said:
‘The simple fact is that no
Right Away
Bartholomew &
Lawrence
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judicial or legislative tribunal
has yet determined that the gov­
ernment did n t secure an en­
tirely advantageous arrangement
in the Teapot Dome deal. Like
most oil transactions the ele­
ment of chance was large; the
government had no facilities to
tap these oil fountains; the deal
was based upon the element of
chance, that wells on lower lev­
els might drain the supplies re­
served to government use.”
Secretary Denby evidently
considered the deal was justified
on this account, and possibly
Fall and Daugherty thought like­
wise.
STA TE M ARKET AGENT
DEPARTM ENT
BY C. E. SPENCE, MARKET AGT.
What happens to a country,
state or private business that
buys more than it sells? Anyone
can answer this question. Now
face this one:
In one year this country sold
$27,336,000 of dairy products
and in the same period bought
$36,000,000. We bought of other
countries over eight and a hajf
millions of dollars more than
we sold. Was there a dollar's
worth of this $36,000,000 stock
we bought that could not have
been produced at home?
Of hides we sold $4,805,000
and we bought $118,917,000, yet
the hides the farmer has to sell
are hardly worth bringing to
market because of the low price,
while shoes and all leather goods
bring the highest prices.
Eggs, we sell eight and a half
million dollars’ worth abroad
and then buy back six and a half
million dollars’ worth, and thou­
sands of henneries have been
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