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PAGE EASTERN TWO ward, to dwell in amity with all mankind, and pursue happiness to W. A. HEYLMAN, Editor. its utmost realization, is forced to make regulations to curb the vie- Entered at the poatoffice in EsUcada, ious propensities o f those who war Oregon, as second dass mail. against them and established order. To punish, penalties are provided P u b lis h e d e v e ry T h u rs d a y a t and pris ms are budt to confine and E s ta c a d a , O re g o n , deprive them o f their liberty when all other measures fail. We estab- by th e ! lish schools to impart learning, ESTACADA PUBLISHING COMPANY, churches to teach a better way o f Eastern Clackamas News living, and in many ways are put to much effort to try and cure this ani- mal spirit and lift them up in order that all may enjoy the blessings of (A C O R PO R A TIO N .) fO M C U m O M K a t e s : One Year Six Months - - * - CLACKAMAS NEWS THURSDAY, ons wj,y some towns do not glci ahead faster, Some must take hold and carry on the work o f churches and frater- nal societies. Some o f the men wi h a » P « ial h"»d for business need t< work in 80:'ae organization for the commercial and other needed deve opment o f the community. Some need to work in clubs for cducatior.- al Purposes, and for more interest in* »° cia! activities. There is some- lhin* tkat cnch, on« l6,hould do and wc “¡1 /a u s- t .ke hold to do some thin* inu these Public Iines’ ,f, wt exPect <hat a town « *oin« to keeP MARCH 18 John W. Worthing'.or, notorious Entirely beside the question is the ;onfidence man o f Chicago, has died assertion o f the wets that George in Atlanta prison where he was serv- Washington brewed beer or drank ing a six-year term for us ng th whiskey. H s w. s a case in the dim "nails to defr. ud. He left a will be- and misty past from which the queathing two million dollars to a wheels o f progress have removed us, .aughter and other relatives. As and if he were alive today, would .he man had many victims defraud- no doubt be the same law-:'biding .d by his activities, it does not seem citizen he always was. It is shame- ustice that this money should be ful to drag Washington’s name into lowed to be enjoyed by those who an argument favoring such an evil a ver earned it and in fact had no as the use o f intoxication* liquor .- gal right to it. end seeking to degrade ft. British scientists are trying to de- Two extraordinary freaks are ..ne a square meal. We are o f opin- brought out in the news o f the past on that being gentlemen of means week. One a preacher in Philadel- rad therefore having never felt the 1-hia who voluntarily lopped off two pang o f hunger, they can tell very thousand dollars from his salary, .¡ttle about what a square meal is, and the other a Montana man, who .Ve are of further opinion that there j became insane when he heard a -re old knights of the “ stick and band play “ How Dry I Am.” uie” who have cl.mbed from th e : Enthusiastic sens o f Swiss Immi- orakebeams been staked to two bits grants are wanting to hang a wrist >y a kindly foreman, sought out a watch on the statue o f Liberty in nearby oasis where a free lunch was New York harbor, and the war d served, and with the help o f that .artment is puzzled what to decide and plenty o f “ suds” have enjoyod about it. Don’t let us fiapperize uch a “ square meal” as no scientist such a monument or dc anything so can define, foolish as to make our freedom ap Use of thg airplane the coming pear ridiculous to the millions who season may solve the great mystery will sail past it. hold in the icy grasp o f the region Nothing is sacred or holy to the lying between Point Barrow and unholy. The American Legion is Spitzbergen. This globe so small asking for a permanent military and yet so largo that our knowledge guard at Arlington cemetery to pre does not vision it, is but a tiny vent • tourists from using as picnic speck in the great system o f crea grounds the plot about the monu ción, and we but mere atomic in ment to the Unknown Sold:er and jects crawling upon the face o f it, .eeking, seeking ever to fathom the w **W k **>.- -. '*>x**> •• *x- secret of our being. J* Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Hall, Props. The country is reminded that the I X U. S. government has no jailg and Y chat congress will not appropriate money to build any. The three pen- SUNDAY SPECIAL .¡.entiaries are now so full that when CHICKEN DINNER X convicts are crowded in their coat .1, tails are caught when the doors Open from 6«30 a. m. to 8:00 p. m !; close. fl-N* *16 an earth so beautiful that no sun up with the gamo People should not act as if they shines on fairer. Crime is consid were making a great sacrifice if ered by many as a disease, but in OUR CRIM IN ALS AND CRIME reality it is only a false belief for they devote a little o f their time to such purposes. Wo should love our In so far as many who help to which probably many centuries must yet elapse before we shall be rid o f home town so much we should be sc populate this earth are concerned, it. Crime leads only to disaster, ambitious to see it go ahead, we they might well subscribe to the to those who hold to this false be- should be so conscious o f the gair.s theory of evolution and accept the iicf, no good can possibly come from that people who have initiative and postulate that they are descended it, much harm and misery does ability or industry, should be willing from the anthropoid ape# Not only come from it, and that is why it is to give some time each week to descended, but still closely related said that these people addicted to j helping forward such causes, in their manner o f living and carry warring against society, defying \ THE BAROMETER ing on. This haa direct reference just laws, leading laws o f no mor- to those who lead immoral lives, ality, are an incybus upon civiliza If the liquor interests, including commit crimes, and scorn the exist tion and are, if it were not a slan ence o f a Supreme Being or any life der upon non-intelligent creation the cabinet member-owner o f brew- hereafter, 'l'hig class o f people are but little removal from the lowerV erie8 and <H*tHlarie§ care to know the ones who cause all the trouble type o f animals. the value o f “ Btraw votes’’ on the ___________ prohibition question, they have but in this world, are an annoyance and HOME TO W N D E V E LO PM E N T to glance at the barometer o f pub expense to the decent remainder, ------- i lie opinion. The high-pressure area and a disgrace to themselves and It used to be frequently said in in the Pacific Northwest states re their progenitors. If indeed they arc descended from the lower animal smaller towns, that it is the business gion, centering around Seattle de- they have never succeeded in get- | o f a good citizen to mind his own 1 notes a storm center, likely to devel- ting very far away from them, and business, keep out o f debt and avoid op into cyclonic proportions. Th for the peace and quietude o f the ■ breaking laws. It was commonly indications are that this tornado will world, might better now be swing- thought that if he did that, it was demolish the structural fancies con ing by their tails from the trees ot ( about all that could be expected o f jured up by lavish expenditures of the jungle. Among the animal ere- him and he was conforming to the coin o f the realm, and straw votes, ation crime is unknown but with ideals o f good citizenship. j In this hotbed o f degrading citizen- the human family endowed with in- But a community's development \ ship, freezing temperatures will foi- telligence to discern between right cannot be promoted in these times iow causing the spirits to descend and wrong there are altogether too by any such limited basis. The fact lower and lower in the thermometer Smiling comes from a state o f many who fail to use their God- ; that so many small town people until even this inanimate recorder mind. If that be clean there is given sense to make respectable cit- still have this spirit and expect to °T temperatures will be afflicted reason in smiling. But if we smile izens o f themselves. Consequence j get along without doing anything ; w' tk “ cold feet.” only for the sake o f stretching the is society for its own welfare and j particular to boost community move- The conviction of Christiansen, et he face into a grin it is only an safety and desire to progress up- ments, is one o f the principal reas- al, in Portland, the skunk, Olmstead evidence o f an empty mind and— 1 _ __________________________ * . i gang in Seattle, followed by the hypocracy. election o f a woman as mayor of Two quite prominent men o f this Seattle, over the present incum country, both peace lovers, hove ar- j| bent, discounts straw votes a thous gued that all men are murderers at and per cent. The human genus en leart. Many o f us would not quite gaged in the nefarious traffic o f de subscribe to that on first thought, bauching humanity for gold, should but there might be some who would H. C. GOHRING, Proprietor like the Arab, fold his tent and steal favor the removal from this vale j silently away in the night. He by popular vote those whose should take what com fort and houghts and actions are not entire warmth he may out o f fires pro ly in accord with their own. From duced by the destruction o f such savagery up is a long, long trail. worthless material as “ straw votes.“ His partner in crime, the purchaser and consumer of spirits, should re tire and commune with his worthless | self, and after mature and careful consideration decide whether there is any element in his make-up worth redeeming. Having reached a de cision, it is up to him to take his Open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, open to 8 p.m. I place as a man among men, or as a companion among those of his fil ESTACADA, OREGON thy ilk, sinking deeper and deeper in that cesspool which he has ex- cavated with his own hands. As the >"• horizon clears, the flotsam and jet- . | sum o f human society, cast high on 1 the beach, will struggle to escupe J>, j the next huge comber, or indolently '! roll back into that sea o f degener- .; i ale law breakers. The choice is J. | theirs. In the mean time the bar- T ometer o f public opinion remains 1 quiescent until the storm o f wrath 4 I rises in the offing at the approach I o f the liquor interests' new tack or ¥ propaganda. Public opinion, when , j expressed at the polls, agitates the barometer violently. It does not rise until decency is outraged and government trampled underfoot by the foul smelling skunks who label themselves as sub-normal members o f society incapable o f participating in a government deriving its powers \ through the consent o f the governed. - Beef, Mutton, Veal and Hogs Bought Subscribe for the News. 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