Image provided by: Portland General Electric; Portland, OR.
About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1925)
EASTERN EASTERN CLACKAM AS CLAC KAM AS NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19. NEWS Entered at the postofflce in Estaca da, Oregon, as second-class mail. CU TS M ORE Published every Thursday at Estaca da, Oregon, by the SLICES ESTACADA PUBLISHING (A Corporation) CO. SUSCKIPTION RATES One year ..................................$1.50 Six months ...................................75 THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 1925 TO T H E L O A F An ideal slice-size for toasting, sandwiches and children’s between-meal snacks. E C O N O M IC A L FOR L A R G E FAM ILIES TO PSY-TURVY TIMES I f the present times arc not top sy-turvy, we would be pleased to know what you call ’em. Men are wearing corsets, women are discard ing them, pantaloons are assuming the proportions of skirts, and skirts are crawling higher up the female -form, encasing her two limbs (or legs) like the skin on a sausage; the ladies are smoking cigarettes, and many men are in the divorce courts because when upon return home at a late hour they discover another bimbo slipping out the back door, and his wife sues him for separation because he hires a yellow-haired ste nographer and steps out with her as the evening shadows fall. On the other hand, Volstead is go ing to teach the drys how to down rum, something many of them al ready know too well how to do now, the powers in Europe agree not to fight each other, and Greece and Bulgaria sleep on it and then get up and poke bayonets into each other regardless; France and Spain join forces and attempt the annihilation of a band o f poor, defenseless Rif- fians who, if they are black, are causing the enemy a lot of worry and doubt as to whether or not they have bitten off too much. The Chi nese, too, seem not to have heard of any peace pact, and are stiil going into battle equipped with umbrellas in case o f rain, while the Japs are looking on, waiting for someone to drop the lid and give them a chance. A down east lady, whose husband died 18 years ago and left her five million dollars, drifts into bankrup- tcy and tells the court she has only $600 left, and half of that is in a wrist watch, which causes us to wish we could have met the lady before she invested in the timepiece; Po land wants Henry Ford for a king, but Henry prefers being an ace at Dearborn; the Episcopal church has stricken the word “ obey” from the marriage ceremony and dashed mere man’s last hope that he could con trol the other half of himself; the Florida land boom is putting Los An- The same Holsum quality that won the Harry M. Freer Trophy the second time in two years. The same price as the regular large loaf. Sold at Your Favorite EJ? Grocery and Restau-® «- LSOM -O N G L O A F rants in Estacada and - < Vicinity. t/iiMcfiun>(arni£f geles in the discard and they are bothture and the balance of the money reaching out fo r limits on the Mis- put to better use. sissippi river; congress is going into 1 The story of a now rich girl, an session again; Ho Hum Charley authoress, once poor, very poor, she Dawes will soon be broadcasting lan-1 says, relates that when she was poor guage that will take all the kinks she hated the rich. Now, she says, out of the aerials, and the baseball she no longer hates them, fo r hate is season has given away to the foot not so deep-seated that money will not uproot it, that the rich are as ball yell. A noted actor weds for the sixth human as any o f us. That has al time, when most of us thought once ways been the history of red social was enough and too many. We ex ism. * When they became "capital tend sympathy. Five railroads are ists” they have ceased to despies in danger of indictment for trans that class— human nature comes to porting booze when we thought it the top. was all being done by hip pocket; The legal profession is an honor the Countess Kartolyi is denied ad able one and ranks high with all mission to this country as an unde the learned ones, yet it has very many sirable, and she had been led to be members who are acting to discred lieve it was the land o f free speech; it it with the people and work only crime increases, religion the oppo- to the end of fattening their pocket- s te ; the Republicans are hopeful, books, regardless of any character the Democrats trying to think up or the interests of the community ir something else; the price of butter which they practice. They are not and eggs goes up, and everything averse to joining dirty hands with else except our salary, and if that all sorts of criminality, if there i should, the income tax man would money in it, and may truly be class come and take it away from us. ed as accomplices. The honorable I f all these and many more do not members of the profession would do indicate topsy-turvy times, doubting well for their own sakes to work and ones arc invited to visit the News bring about a change in legal pro office and witness this editor when cedure that would weed out this ver; he is hitting on all cylinders in his objectionable class o f black sheep. effort to rustle items for his paper. This country may be drawn into The majority o f us do not con embarrassing situations with foreig cern ourselves at what others spend nations in a peculiar manner. The their money for, but when it is pro government has recently been callci posed to erect a church in Washing upon to extend protection to citizen ton, D. C., at a cost of $1,250,000, in Syria. A large number of Syr we may question why a more modest ians came here, were naturalized sum might be used to erect a struc- and then returned to their native about the MAYTAG ^///APPEAL to you WASH W ITH A MAYTAG, and you will marvel at the wonderful work it does. You will marvel at its thor oughness. Cuffs, collars, children’s rompers, dirty overalls — all come out clean without hand-rubbing. You will marvel at its speed. A tubful of family wash cleaned in the amazing flash of 3 to 7 minutes. You will marvel at its capac ity. Think of it! Fifty pounds of dry clothes washed per hour. You will marvel at many other advantages of the Maytag — every thing about it will appeal to you. Telephone us your name and ad dress and we will loan you a May« tag to do your next washing. This free trial puts you under no obli gation to buy — not even the slightest. Deferred Paym ents Y o u ’ll Never Mist L\ Outstanding Maytag Features 1 Washes faster. • Easily adjusted to your height. 2 Washes cleaner. > Largest hourly 7 Clothes can be capacity in the put in or taken world. out with the washer running. 4 Most compact washer made— • Tub cleans it ttkesfloor space self. only 25 inches square. 9 A 1 I me t a l wringer. Self B Cast aluminum adjusting. In tub — c a n ’ t stant tension warp, rot, swell, release. split or corrode. Reasons for World Leadership 9 Gurafoam cWasher * C.WÌTH CAST AUMMINUM JTUB^ 10- Hogg Bros., Homefurnishers 804 Main St., Oregon City EXCLUSIVE ÇLACKAMASS COUNTY AGENTS lend and engaged 1:: revolutionary activities, and then claimed United States citizenship. It is these the government is called upon to pro tect. Something wrong with our nationalization system some place. — — J The young man who imagines he is handicapped by not having a col lege education should not forget the case o f young Abraham Lincoln, who never even glimpsed the chimneys of a college. Yet, if there Is a man today boasting of all the degrees a college can confer who can utter or compose as fine a specimen of the English language and sentiment as does the Gettysburg speech, he has never come to notice. DRUNKEN DRIVERS Sentiment is rapidly growing for the removal of the drunken automo bile driver from the highways, and it is sentiment moving in the right direction. There is a call for more drastic action on the part of traffic officers and all others with police authority to not wait until the irresponsible nan has done damage before gather- ng him in. The man who fills him self with vile booze that befuddles his brain and then takes to an auto mobile is a menace to all others who may be on the road, and it is due society that he be summarily re moved and placed where he can do no harm. I f the danger surrounded only the drunken driver there would 'e serious objection to his killing himself, but the danger radiates in ill directions, and the least of it ap pears to attach to the intoxicated man at the wheel. I f a man were caught sprinkling acks upon the highway he would be promptly gathered in and pointed to as a malicious, vicious criminal, and some of the more excitable ones would want him lynched on the spot. Still, his crime is only that o f injury to automobile tires, for which ho should be soundly punished. But these same people, including thé au thorities in many cities, will look at a booze loaded driver as he sallies forth on his mission of death and destruction, and he usually goes on iis wild way until he does some thing that cannot be recalled. As we have remarked, the drunken au tomobile driver is a potential mur derer, safe only in one place, jail. i J A K U m L y i ’„ t y l * ’ A N D M AR CEL SA LO N STRICTLY SANITARY SATISFACTION GUARANTEED HOURS— ‘J:00 A. M. TO 8:00 P. M SATURDAY— 9:00 A. M. TO 10:00 P. M. MASONIC BLDG. ESTACADA ART. SMITH, Propr. A reading of the daily papers shows that cases of holdups, bur glaries and bold daylight robberies are being carried on to an alarming extent. The apparent ease which mark all the acts and the fact that most of the culprits make a clean getaway, indicates there is some thing lacking in the vigilance of o f ficials. These latter need a lesson to awaken them to a sense of duty to the public. There is a class of citizens who brush the dust from church pews on Sunday and then go out on Monday and the rest of the week and ignore the laws of their country. They may throw up their hands in holy horror at this statement, the very best evidence that the “ cap fits.” U *\ ie n j LET US BE Cl J X i X •{• X W e have electrical appliances of every kind for the X modern home, and they are M O D ER ATE IN PRICE They are also the best solution of the problem of CH RISTM AS G IV IN G Come in and see them. No obligation to buy. i i * Y X t : JL 1, :!: t . 1 , Electric S t o r e , Electric Building X t X X i : : Y i. I T, Portland Electric Power Company Y ï t ï ELECTRIC BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON. • •> ’!* v *I * *!• •I»«I**I»*I**I**I« •: R. G. M A R C H B A N K C O N FE C T IO N E R Y A N D LIG H T L U N C H IN T E R N A T IO N A L M ADE-TO-M EASURE CLOTHES W H AT ARE WE? I f it is desired at Washington to cut taxes, why not begin by cutting the cause of taxes? says the Oregon Journal. Ninety-odd per cent o f the taxes collected by the federal government go for wars past and to come. Nine ty odd cents out of every dollar col lected is spent on wars of yesterday GEO R G E L A W R E N C E & SON or in preparation for wars tomor row. Phone No. 37-3 In that frightful expenditure goes The only milk sold in Estacada from Federal 90-odd cents out of every dollar you accredited Tuberculin free cows pay in federal income tax. I f you pay $100 federal income tax, 90-odd L_ dollars o f it goes for war. If you taken as the mirror to govern th pay $1000 federal income tax, 900- taxes not a soul stood up b fore th odd dollars of it goes for war past or committee and pointed out that war who contemplate locating for I k ; expected. is the basis and cause o f the frightful ness or other reasons in the count Industry is ground down and bur tax burdens and that the way to cut town. In fact, the newspaper dened by the enormous war expendi taxes is to stop the great cause of fleets the character o f the wh community. I f it contains the i ture. Commerce writhes under the taxes. nounccments of those engaged clossal burden. Agriculture is near The war between Greece and Bul ly wrecked by it. Labor is buried garia was prevented recently by th*1 business, and the printer Hiid pe under it through the excess cost of League of Nations. Italy's intended Isher u.e» hie best knowledge : everything it buys, caused chiefly by war on Greece two years ago was skill in so presenting them in I war taxes seven years after the war prevented by the League o f Nation ■. cpluinr.s and issues a newsy and \v printed paper, it may generally I ended. It is as certain as death that war can Keep the figures in mind— 90-odd be outlawed by agreements among token as an evidence that th” to cents out o f every dollar of federal the nations. If America were in the ,« a real live one, composed of i taxes collected goes for war toll. league' now and earnestly striving to to-date and progressive citizens, . Keep in mind when you make out give it force and power, there would a pluce in which it is safe anil pro your income tax returns that 90-odd never be another war among civil nblc to cast one’s lot. But thoi cent* out of every dollar o f the sum ized nations. All that the league the people be ever so progress you pay goes for war past or ex needs is America’s great prestige and and enterprising, if the paper fails I measure up to a standard show pected. moral leadership. good workmanship, its ads badly And the income tax is merely the ... . . There can never be any consider- tax that you see. It is but a part of i ab)e cut in federal UxM untii the up, r.o taste shown in the selection • what you are paying, often a very . Krcat cau„ , of f(,dpral taX(M in cut. type, carelessness displayed in t’ small part You pay an average of Cut out war. and you cut out the manner of handling local events, 120 tax on the automobile you drive. tbi that makes 90.odd p„ r cent 0f sent out with a smutty look on count of poor press work, the Twenty-seven dollars of that went thp taxPg for war. The tax collector, making i w b .,t #rP WP a, a nation whcn we tending newcomer may not be v up your country’s war budget, ta k e hf>w| „ tM reduction- and do not favorably impress 'd with th“ to money out of your pocket on the | even mal(e a to b„,p outlaw Good dress in a w wspaper ere. tho same impression on the publi; food you buy, on the clothing you v.ars does a well dressed man or won wear, on the roof under which you ______________ And as Arst imptessions are the <. *heIt<red' And Per cent j COUNTRY TOWN OFTEN o f afl the money he takes from you JUDGED BY ITS PAPER ciding factor in many cases, it wo' be well for the publisher of the i s sp'nt in preparations for the next I war or in paying for past wars. ! Writing net long ago in Oregon cal paper to display all the en‘ • u . pag ' t 4 i r. nts out o f every | Exchanges, ,hp off‘ " 1 h« has at , dollar for war and one cent out o f I Oregon State Editorial associa- mand to produce a neat, olean every dollar for education, research tion> rh *d Alton of the Sutherlin attractive publication.” and development, including care of Sun h* d thi® 10 in to the The rains o f the past week m.. the public health. And at the hear-¡ communit>r new» P « P « ; mg» at Washington on how to cut ‘ The local newspaper is very often fall plowing much easier. JE R S E Y M ILK A N D CREAM