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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1911)
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Caataraj BaataMa OTIrea Varr Sj Conk- llo N. lork. Hroav.U:k bullslns. CaU- yrt laT bai:lln(. . roTL-ND. MTIRDU. JI LT t. !- TARtrr iioriu. " Whataver Its other merits or de' ftcu mjr txt. It cannot b denied, that the Payrie-Aldrlch tariff ha been an excellent breeder of trouble. Front the outwi the country ss dissatisfied lth It. The rr-cl Wol did U h could to make the best of the law. but hi efforts were mUundartlood. The flection which followed the en 4Mitmerit of le new tariff was disas trous to the Republicans, and It U conreded that the principal reason fur their defeats was dissatisfaction with .the duties on machinery, steel prod ucts, woul and sugar, wltb other taxes whlch were popularly believed to 'throw sops to the trusts.- Even the "Interestji' which were atd to hare engineer. the schedule .rti ine x ayne-Aiirtcn 01:1 muM dmic failed to profit much by It. The coun "try has been so unsettled since It ss 'passed and buinrji conditions have ' 'been so uncertain, with the prospect f another revision before lng. t)iat -rvery few enterprises have been ma-klna as much money aa they expected. The condition of the wool trade Is typical of mas jr others. In Orecon the poafl ,'billt)- of a reduction of the wool duties ha enabled buyer to curtail prices -m 11 cent on the pound. What worse effect on producers could actual reduction have bad two years ago? One cannot avoid reflecting: how much better 1t would have been for the whole country and for Individual business enterprises If the tariff had been revised scientifically and with a . view to the public welfare Instead of Ilstenlnir so anxiously to the dictates of particular beneficiaries. To be sure, the old theory of permitting the friends of the tariff to revise It mas eirlctly fallowed, but It did not work t so well as formerly. The people h-ave rrown more and more distrustful t'f Jhe particular f roup of "friends of protection' who manipulated the i'ayne-AIdrlch revision and nobody can tell to what lensjths they are ready to id now In the direction of tax abatement. The Las Follette bill which has Just paiseed the Senate cuts down the wool dull-a from an average of 45 per rent to one of 40 per rent. - This Is not a very heavy chance, but since the wool schedules have been looked upon as the "citadel of protection." to borrow 5tr. Aldrich's words, the re duction Is ominous. The disposition a of the reformers WKI cow be to go on . and cut down other schedules, and "before we know It we may be In the lull tide of a fen era I revision. Whrth--r the !!uae wi;l accept the La Fol- ,'letle solution of the wool lax or not "i-e problematical. Mr. fnderwood. speaking; for his party, declare for a ' -rore tettm reduction. No doubt some compromise will be screed upon , Add then the final art In the drama will have to be consummated by Mr. taft. tils duly cannot be a very arr , this one. lie has said many times tv.at the wool duties as they stand are .4fealble. but he has al) said that '. ha wants no reductions of' the tariff 'ahich have not been recorrmended by tua Tariff Hoard, or Commission. ' TMs commission does not command ; 1e full cot.fiiier.ee either of the coun i tr or CortTess. It was created by a I f'nsra which did not approve of istctific raviaion and which there- fore rut down ita posers to the 'very limit of decency. full It hns been ' iWioc all It could and the P reel. lent w4es to wait for Its report on the . wol schedule and other dutlrs before eultintr anything down. Neither the Insurgent nor the ifseraocrats are willing to wait. Mr. Xaa Koilette. speaklns; for the insur- r'tjts. si that the Tariff Commlseion ias not shown Itself reliable. He . urfts Immediate action on many -schedules regardless of Its Investlra ' tlur.s. His ostensible reason for hast relate to the reciprocity agreement. "Why should all the reductions hit ; the farmers V he aski. Why not In ', Justice (i on and cut off some of the ijt.es which benefit the manufactur ers? The truth of the matter b that the farmer have not been hit. The teclproclty agreement will not Injure them a penny, but Mr. La Follette sees . Jrls opportunity to make capital and ' ie naturally us- It. If Mr. Taft sign the wool reductions he will offend ' COaerful Interests. If he does not in them he will be proclaimed an rnemey of the suffering farmers. How be war t : 1 sofve h.ts problem remains to be aeen. but his natural shrewdness nd JudkUl temperament will no ; floubt fin a may. .-.The Democrat eare very little whether the wool reductions are 'Vetoed or not by the President. In either case they will have shown their Retentions by passing them through Congress and can afford to rest on Ibelr laurels. Whichever war the w-tr.d blows their cropa are pretty sure thrive. The entire tariff Imbroglio Voks very much as If It had been contrived by some trtallKnant genius r aid the temovrats at the next elec- iann. The Tlepubllcans ran scarcely gain anything no matter w hat they do. The Ireraocrat have only to avoid aw i nine blunders to grow In popular favor. The country Is eaifer for lower taxes and Is ready to stand by the party which offers to bestow them without much retard to name and former predilections. Even If Mr. Taft should veto all the proposed re ductions now. he will have to face tn'tn again next Winter. The Insur gent and Democrats will care no crtore for the Tariff Commission then than they do now. Undoubtedly they III do what they like regardless of Its report. The subject Is very perplexing- One -'n only regret that It was not settled one for All to jeaxa ajo whea tlie Republican party w as united and en Joyed the confidence of the country: FORK-CT FIRE DAV.KR MINI-" - Success with which forest flres that have broken out in Oregon thla Sum mer have been confined to old flash ings without damage to gTeen timber shorn what can be accomplished by concerted effort. Timber owner hav organized a thorough patrol system which, operating in co-operation m-Uh, that established under state and Fed eral direction. Js quick to discover out breaks In these danger spot and pre vent their read. The arousing, too. of public sentiment for the suppression of carelessness by campers, hunters and person clearing land la a hopeful sign that the forest fire danger in Ore gon will be minimised thla year and in succeeding dry season. To say that aa result of the eiron jio being made Oregon la certain to be wholly free from timocr nre osse Is. Af course, unwarranted, tnuauai edadltiona. uch aa prolonged dry rrufhar. followed by strong winds. add to the lire danger and over tbcm gian has no control. But It I not un reasonable to expect that investments In timber will become as safe as many Investments that promise lower re turns of profit. The forest nre recor promise thl year to be an encourage ment to Investor rather than an alarming factor In the timber situar tlon. We are Jn the position of a city that has organized an eAectlve fire de partment and enlarged Ita facilities for combatting conflagrations. -o eaiera can be devleed In a city that will ab solutely prevent occasional outbreaks, tut, like the well-governed city, the state la eliminating 0 ret raps and aan gerous practices and la prepared to light Area originating from accltlent or unforeseen cause-s. Ail or wnicn wna ronaerve one of Oregon' greatest re sources and add to. the general pros perity of the state. - LABOR WORK FOR FICACE- The unanimity with which British party leaders have suspended strife and rallied To te support of the novernment la the measure of the es timate placed on ,ne favlty of the crisis with Germany regarding auo- rrw-n Rut It is difficult tO COOCeive that a question la which Great Britain is only Indirectly interested aa an ally of France could bring, her to blows with Germany. The crisis la more the outcome of the prevalent hatred and ausplclon of Germany, which Is ever ready for a pretext to break Into flame, than of British Interest in Morocco. Tha warlike feeling in all three of the countries concerned Is apt to re ceive a aevere cfieck from the united opposition of the labor element to hos tilities. This attitude was emphatical ly stated by Mr. MacDonald, the laoor leader In the House of. Commons, h.n h . aald that the laborites of Germany. France and England would co-operate to the very last moment, to seek peace and prevent two professedly Christian countries from ...a.m er to th arbitrament of the sword over a difficulty that could eas ily be settled at The Hague. Tha. Rnialista of Germany, whose strength Is chiefly among the work- Ingmen. have always opposea militar ism and have done much to obstruct the marlike alms of the Kaiser. )n ivaii'a anti-militarism has gone so far that men have been Imprisoned for urging conscripts not to serve in the army, and is suspected of having nromrj ted some of the disaster m-hlch befell French m-arshlp at Toulon. In Kngland the labor leader have been leaders In the peace and arbitration movement, and some of them have traveled abroad In the cause of peace. With such a strong miiuence word ing together for peace In all three countries. It l not easy to conceive that they would engage In war on the eve of the conclusion of a series of treaties which will be the first step In the elimination of war from the relations of the chief world pomers. AS TO VACATIONS. Where, were all the Vancouver mln iters last Thursday? When a young tan and his prospective bride looked . nna to tlt the sacred knot It was Impossible to find a single divine. If I had not been for the lucky presence a iii.rira of the neace in the town of the r.r.mnrv would have had to wait till the minister returned from wher- ver lhy may be. we trual at least ne of them will get back home be- for th r Sunday. If they all stay away - i,,.tir. of the neaca will have to reach to the people and he may not be able to do tnat so wen aa ne can tie tha marriiaxe knot. tarriaaa has been made a civil con tl tact by the taw of the land, but err- on have not yet been secularized. Th ey are still more or lea consecrat- ed. Mere laymen, cannot perform lh to ,em alisfactortly. W have listened sermon delivered by unanointed tongues, but they lacked a certain methint " cannot say exactly hat It wsa, but It wa something, a ind of Je ne sal quo, a the French ly. A lay sermon to pur ears la like cherry pie served li a restaurant, miserable ubstllute for Ae real thlt ng. But we are still wondering where all the Vancouver preachers have gone to. They cannot all be fishing, though doubtless several of them are. The chances are that one or two have gone mountaineering while others are disporting themselves at the beach. Happy preachers. Would we were with them all. It Is only the fortu nate of the earth who can have those long. leisurely vacations school teachers, ministers. and millionaires. As for hoboes, their lives aire one con tinuous vacation. Possibly they get a little too much of a good thing. What we should like would be a vacation of. say. eleven months out of the year. Our tastes were always moderate.' We were brought up to desire little. Busi ness first and then pleasure If there Is any time for It Is our motto. No doubt a day will dawn when everybody can have as long a vacation- as the minister and millionaires now receive from their grateful ap preciate. It is said by the learned that two hours' work a day would keep the world running. The othef eight that we put In are simply gob bled up by the big trusts When Mr. Bryan extirpates the trusts perhaps wV ran claim our own and all go huckleberry lng and fishing for a whole dear, delightful Summer. Even out of the fofcl mess of scan dal in the Controller Hay affair hns perhaps come much good. The Pres ident has been given an opportunity clearly to define his policy In Alaskan aff.tlrs. I'nlnfluenced by the extreme conservationists and scandalmongers on the one hand and the landgrabbers i' on the other, he has evolved a reason able plan under which that territory can be developed, public Interests preserved and monopoly prevented. For years Alaska has been pleading In vain for laws which would permit orderly development and government. Nothing but a scandal appeared ca pable of drawing th attention of Con gress to It. Having been the occa sion of the persecution of a faithful official and of a slander on the Pres ident. Alaskan affairs may now be considered of enough Importance to secure legislation. The results of the legislation may be worth even that price. . WHERE THE BUMS IAT.8. Tha communication writen by Rob ert C. Wright and published on this page last Thursday, setting forth from the records certain facts that have direct bearing upon, and indeed are responsible for, the shortage of water that has caused such great inconven ience to householders In recent week Is worthy of careful attention. .Fur , t...wr-. it fa worth the attention ol those in municipal authority and should by them be explained to a ae frauded publle. What are specifications which OX tlm limit it nun he construction of public works worth. If contractors are allowed to be a law unto tnemseives in such vital matters? And what are tha rfnalarnated benalties for the Don completion of the work undertaken within the specified time worm u tne ara not enforced? Here, aa shown from the recorda by Mr. Wright, is Mount Tabor rcaervoir Vn c -ahi.-rt was to have been com pleted by July 1. 110. and reservoir No. C. due for completion ana ac ceptance by the city October ,31. 1910 n.i hnth i-tlll uncompleted. Again the time specified for the completion of the new Bull Run pipeline and Its nniuriinn with reservoir No. 6 (when it would be ready for the delivery of waiarl waa June 15. 111. It is nui mmnWaH vet a. fact which furtht accounts for the water shortage that has prevailed elnc aDout me u designated for the completion of this van- imnortant. expensive and to contractors profitable contract. The authorities will certainly be remiss in their duty to a" sorely tried citizenry and to a Ore-menaced city if they do not exact the penalty In these cases ALL EYKS OS ALASKA. The eyes of the Nation are at last on Alaska. The scandals and fake scandals which have been stirred up In connection with that last refuge of the pioneer have served one gooa purpose at least they have forced the whole country to pay attention to the affaira of Alaska and to de mand that the land laws be so re vised that the pioneers can develop that country instead of sitting in Idle ness and cursing the Government. The - New York Evening Post, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Indianapolis Nan and the Outlook all have am clea on the subject of Alaska. All of these papers except the News demana that the laws be revised in such man ner that the coal can be mined ana shipped. The News appears to be rather befuddled by the multlude of scandals and suggests that a board or commission be appointed to inves tlgate everything Alaskan. The Even ing Post anlmadveeia on the blunders of both parties In the Uallinger scan dal and calls attention to me neea "of dealing constructively with the whole Alaskan situation. It says: rn..raiianita avnd commerrlallata ara at on upon lbs aubje. t. The old chars con tinues to b rnada. In.laefl. thai th. cunaer- vatlonlats have biocura tne mmiit -Alauks avnd hava Imposed srrat liardahlpa upon ita Inhabitants; but thoae who make tha cliar. Dakar taka tha trouble to snow that It haa mat tounuauon. a- a Koaavalta auaaaase. In l'. urglu tha enactment of laaa that would bring avbout In. development of the coal lands, to Mr. f.orhofa aialamrll tha other day that "th on Imperatu ned for A.auka Is an bonet roal lan.1 law. opening lb coal to lmmdiat development usdrr laava from th Govern ment." th friend of conaarvatlon bav bten anxloua to bav lb preant Impoaalbl tn nlationa aboiithad and a practical working law put into fore. No that w have an admirable Secr.iary of th Jntwior. with vi.ninr.r a dead laau and th Cunningham affair altlMl. thera ahould. b no further de lay Is puttlBS this awsg-vajiaa nwwr n a rational baata. The Enquirer dwells on the great area of Alaska cou lund and the ab surdity of the laws which have brought the mining of couj to a stand still, and quotes J'lnchots declaration In favor of the Immediate paaeags ol a coal-leasing act. It dwells on .the anomalous spectacle ' of Alaska Im- nortlng coal and the whole raclfio Coast paying enormous prices, while naval vessels on the Pacific pay 62a. 000 a year to carry to the Pacific Coast coal hlch costs on the Atlan tic seaboard 1376.000. Theodore Roosevelt, in an article In the Outlook headed: "Alaska it must be developed." reviews the whole difficulty, but holds "crooked syndi cates" responsible for retarding the development of Alaska for the last two year. He hdlds them responsible also for blocking efforts to pass rea sonable laws because "they preferred a bad law to a good law." as they would rather violate a bad law than have a good law passed. He closes with these forcible words: It Is wall to remembar that the Congress man who. under pretenaa of hoatllltr to th corporatlnna. drcllncs to permit th paa tag of Irglalatlnn which will enable Ihern to do their worn boneally and to develop th coal fields wltb a fair protlt to them seivia. while doing Juatlc to other. Is nut only as mmy to th doarelopment of Alaska, but la playing Into the handa of tha great crooked syndicates who And. among their moat efficient alllia. not merely th corrupt man In public life, but the Imprac ticable person who, In tbe nam of reform, vara agalnat th only methods that will adequately control or check corruption. Aiaeita mutt be developed. It muat not b developed through tha Government's con niving at lawbreaklng on a gigantic seal by great corporation. It rouet be developed by securing at one th paseag of laws which will give to honiat corporations an honest profit for doing th w,ork of development- If C'ongraas fall at onc to deal with thl mattar. It will be guilty of criminal, negligence. if Congress will legislate with re gard to Alaska coal land In the light of coal mining as it now is and not as It was half a century ago. Its task will not be difficult. If it will legislate In the light of conditions in Alaska and not In Pennsylvania or Illinois, it will not go far astray. In order to make mining of coal practicable In Alaska. Congress must -deal with the land In thqusands, pot hundreds, of acres. In order to make the Industry profitable. It must give long leases assuming that the lease system is adopted with a royalty low enough to allow a fair profit, allowing also for the risks of Investment In a rough, sub-arctic country. It should retain power to regulate the selling price of coal in such a way that no combina tion of coal companies can become oppressive. It should retain such con trol In the Government as will pre vent restriction of output from being ued by the cal companies to exact exorbitant prices. Conirress may as well make up its mind that coal mining in Alaska will only be conducted en a large ascale, which means by large . corporations. The coal must be mined on a large scale and the same company will In the nature of things own the tribu tary railroad, wharves and steamers. If the corporation Is. different, it will be owned by the same men. The men who have capital for so large an en terprise are comparatively few, and If their names should happen to be Morgan or Guggenheim, those names should not have the same effect on Congress as a red rag has on a bull. Congress Is supposed to represent the collective wisdom pf the people of the United States, and, if this wisdom, honestly applied to the public inter est, is not a match for a Morgan or a Guggenheim, we are in a bad way. Congress has the power to dictate terms and should dictate such terms as w ill protect the public interest, de velop Alaska, secure revenue from the land, coal fpr the people at reason able prices and make money for the Morgans and Guggenhelms and their like. It is a business proposition all around and can be arranged if the men concerned will set their minds to it. The announcement of the death of Mrs. I. A. Beal, widow of the late Cornelius Beal, recalls the village days of Portland wherein this pioneer coudIo lived as useful ciiixens. Cor nelius Beal was at one time owner of a home and a considerable tract of land at Council Crest, whRher he moved and where he lived for several years for the benefit of the health of his family. The place was uien as secluded as it was beautiful a very dream of rural loveliness and health ful repose. The changes of the past few years have deprived it of the se clusion that made it an ideal resort for the weak and weary, and of the four Cornelius Beal, his wife and son and daughter, who sought the balm of healiDg In Its solitudes the last has. with Hie death of Mrs. Beal, nassed away. The memory of the simple endeavor and peaceful, unos tentatious lives of this venerable counle still lingers among the remain ing few who survive Portland's village era. Thuggestlon of Mr. C. K. Henry that fife hours for using water through graden hose for" the benefit of lawns and flower beds be so segregated that citizens in all parts it the city may re ceive their Just share of the limited supply is a good one. .There Is cer tainly no good reason w hy people who live In the more elevated portions of. the city should be deprived of water with which to get breakfast. and per form their matutinal ablutions while those on the lower levels have an abundance of water for their lawns during the early morning hours in ad dition to that needed for domestic uses and personal cleanliness and comfort. Everybody will draw a long breath upon reading that the "pourparlers between France and Germany have become normal again. This means that the war fever has cooled down England is also far less feverish than she was yesterday. Mr. Asquith has now "no desire to obstruct the Franco rsorman negotiations." In a day or two more all will be calm ngain. Had it not been for the parliamentary crt sis England would not nave . ien obliged to strut and bluster over the Moroccan trifle. . Planters have been urged to burn Dart of their cotton crop In order to raise the market value or wnat is ieii. A . silly suggestion of reprisal upon generous nature for responding to the efforts of labor in Increasing tha cot ton producing area 30 per cent in a decade and In giving planters all they asked for in return and something more besides. t Robert Hodge knows that a city hlch had hardly finished recalling Mayor Gill when it began to recall Mavor Dilling would not long remain sutisfiud wiih Mayor Hodge. The Seattle recallrs. are enamored of ro tation In office, but the speed or rota tlon Is too great for Hodge. Ha will run for Governor and escape the recall. - . The destiny of Haytl is easily fore seen. A neighbor so near and dis quieting cannot be tolerated forever. Sooner or later the United States must take hold of the Island and clean It ud morally and politically. If It were Inhabited by whites It would make a rlexirable member of the Union. Since its population Is black, very black, perhaps a protectorate must suffice. How far-reaching were the effects of Lorlmer bribery in Illinois one can form some conception on reading yotffig Holtslaw's testimony that his father was bribed. Any young man's standard of uprightness must be low ered bv the knowledge of such a fact about his father or his filial respect must receive a severe blow. Before the Iewls and Clark Fair the tearing down of a five-story brick building to make room for a larger one would have created a sensation In Portland; today It is a common place event. Tbo change tells how Portland has expanded not only In size but In, her Idea of what are big things. Governor Johnson has graciously consented that Oregon shall try Louis J. Wilde for crimes committed in Oregon. ' If there.be any prejudice against Wilde, it has only been ag gravated by his reluctance to - come to Oregon and face trial. When E. C. Mad.den claims the right to take official letters from the Postofflce Department and use them In' his practice as an attorney against the department, he displays a foggy view of the difference between "mine" and "thine." Referring to wood block pavement, some persons who have to arise early ln the morning to sprinkle their lawns because of the water shortage would like to use certain city ortlcialB' heads as paving material. With threats of a dozen new suits and 1000 complaints under Investiga tion, the trusts are rushing to cover by asking to be controlled Instead of prosecution Thera must have been a harem skirt among the women shoppers of Evan6ton to stir up that hornets' nest. The Wilde reception is due Tuesday. Gleanings of the Day The effect of China's efforts to ex tinguish the use of opium is seen Jn the revenue reports. The revenue from this source was 8,42.SS3 in 1809, and 2, 449,269 in 1910. in spite of an increase in the rate of taxes. Scarcity of the higher grades of kauri gum is causing Asnerican varnish man ufacturers to improve heir methods so as to get along with inferior gum and to use cheap substitutes. Tbe kauri gum industry is the mainstay of Auck land, N. Z., and Henry D. Baker, tjclted States Vice-Consul at that city, says of it: About 100 different grades of gum are aold in tha Auckland market, and It takes much expert abUlty on tbe part of Auckland deal ers to know what price to pay to th gum diggers for th various pieces offered and bow to sort a-ud classify th gum properly for the American and European market. Th gum. which Is the solldlfted turpentine of the kauri tree, mostly fossilized, fa all obtained from the peninsula north of the City of Auckland, and it varie widely in quality in different districts, the best gum. which la now very scarce, being found in tbe more elevated country, while tbe lowest grades are obtained largely from e warp pa, Some gum la even found on th betveh under alt water. At ona time gum wa obtainable at the present alt of th City of Auckland, bat now tha diggers are going into districts more awd more remote, auid ara generally obliged to dig much deeper than formerly to obtain good gum. In many Instances former digging ar reworked at lower levels trlib conspicuous success. With Im proved prices for gum, the diggers And It jays them to take additional trouble even to obtain smaller supplies, and often with rood luck vthe arum dickers may make ata much as 140 a week. The usual earnings however, of good diggers run between, u and ?1Z fr week. Representative Stanley, chairman of the House committee investigating the steel trust, has. been in Pittsburg gath ering Information and huntmg up wit nesses. The New York Evening Post has a dispatch which says of the re sults of his visit: Tha general impression is that, after the Investigation Is ended, the committee wilt have brought out sufficient evidence to in dicate that the Gary dinners must cease, that ore transportation rates are excessive, and that the Steel Corporation enjoys a number of distinct advantages .denied com petitors. It is the 'belief of one of the most prominent Pittsburg Iron and steel authorities that, within a year, the Pitts burg district will have secured an adiust ment of freight rates which will remove much of the alleged inequalities of trans portation charges. If this readjustment of rates, particularly on ore, is granted, the saving to Pittsburg shippers may be upwards of Slu.uoo.uoo per annum, ana me reuuewvu in fi-eieht receiDts bv Steel Corporation rail roads may amount to as much as $13,000,000 to J'o.Ooo.OOO per annum. The errect ot sucn a reduction on total earnings of the corpora tion, particularly in periods when business .is on a go to TO per cent basis. Is obvious. Tbe Steel Corporation management recognizes the chances of lower rates on the North western ore roads between lower lake ports and Pittsburg and will doubtless manifest considerably less opposition to revision than other carriers. The Stanley committee is exDected to recommend to Congress a reduc tlon In the tariff on iron and steel products. Scientific management has been put In practice on the Hawley Railroads at St. Louis. Congestion of freight at terminals at crop-moving periods con vinced railroads a few years ago that they had been developing traffic with out Increasing facilities for handling It at terminals. They have since spent vast sums In securing easy movement of trains In and out of yards, but they continued the same methods of loading and unloading as had prevailed for centuries. The Missouri. Kansas & Texas began the change by substitut ing for the hand-pushed truck an overhead electric device at the St. Louis terminals, and the Alton' and Clover Leaf, two other Hawley roads, fol lowed the example. So far, the net re sult has been an Increase of over 300 per cent In terminal facilities, and . a reduction of from 45 cents to 30 cents in the cost of handling each ton of freight. On the average, miscellaneous freight Is moved by the'railroads three times, at an average cost of 33 1-3 cents a handling. According to the last annual report of the Interstate Com merce Commission, the railroads hauled 300,000.000 tons of miscellaneous freight. If by substituting machinery for hand-Dushed trucks one-third of the present cost can be saved, as In the case of the Hawley lines, the annual saving by all of tbe railroads should be $100,000,000. And that does not take into account the saving in capital ef fected by Increasing terminal facilities. Investors In farm loans have dis cussed with some interest the possible effect that the drought will have upon the ability of the farmer borrower to meet his obligations, says Bonds, and Mortgages. There has been some ap prehension lest, because of his smaller crop product and the lower price level of grain and stock, that the borrower will be hampered in paying his Inter est and handling the principal when It becomes due. No alarm need be taken from this condition. The Western bor rower has ample resources with which to .meet his obligations. While a vast amount of money is loaned through out the Western states, the farmers generally are in. good financial condi tion and instances where they have borrowed more titan they should are rare. To be sure, should there succeed several seasons of drought there would he another tory to tell, for the farmer must meet bis fixed charges out of the income from his soil. He has, how ever, enjoyed several very prosperous years preceding this one, and his re sources have been put back into im provements and bank deposits so that he is in ample shape to care for a year or two of short crops. Aviation Is the coming sport the world over. Britain has been slow to take It up, but Is becoming more Inter ested. Germany has 100 establishments for the building of aeroplanes and their motors; Antwerp and Brussels are ar ranging flights; Bombay, India, has a monoplane, so has Harbin, Manchuria, and Japan is keenly interested in avia tion. A Munich company which builds dirigible airships paid a 16 per cent dividend on two months' business. Air ships are now Insured at Lloyds' and other Insurance offices. Constantinople, the only city of a million people without telephones and electric cars, is about to get up to data. Concessions have been granted for tel ephone, and electric railway systems, two large office buildings have been completed and others are planned John M. Carson, the United States com mercial agent there, says there Is an nvitlng field for American capital to erect modern office buildings and ware houses, apartment-houses and hotels. He says: frhA fnmmnrcfl and wholesale trade of the city are carried on by individ uals and nrms lucaiea ui u.u uuiiuiiigs huddled together in narrow, crooked streets, wltiiout sunicieui jiba.- ana Aniiiitinn.. nd generally in noor san itary condition. Many of the largest huBinasn concerns are necessarily lo cated on upper floors, to which access galnen only ty means ot winding tone steps. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1911. by George Matthew Adams) When a man gets mad at a horse, how mad he gets! Would he be equally angry if he had an opponent capable of fighting back? How many experiments are tried! And most of them doomed to failure from the start. This is about all the attention some people attract: When their procession goeej by, people inquire, "Whose fu neral?" "I've had a lot of trouble during my life," an old man says in a recent book, "but most of it never happened." " - "Of course a woman can dfess on $K5 a year," a woman said to her husband, scornfully; "if a man wants that sort of a wife." Be good to some people, and they begin making demands on you until you can't stand It. We wish the people would get to gether, and agree to like or dislike some one thing. A woman moved into a strange neighborhood. The following Monday morning she was out in the yard, hang ing out her wash. The woman living next door was also hanging out her wash, and said to the stranger: "And so you play the piano, too!" And that's. the way they became acquainted. Considering how few funny things are said, people do a good deal of laughing. When a man asks you to do a service for him. and eays: "I'll make it all right with y.ou," it means he will never pay you anything. Brad's Bit o' Verse (Copyright, 1911, by W. D. Meng.) Joe. Hawkins was a fiddler, and a rat tling good one, too; he played for dances and such things way down in old Miz zoo. It certainly was scandalous, the way he slung that bow; he played so blamed unceasingly, they called him "flddlin' Joe." He might have owned a dandy farm; for there was lots of ground to be had for almost nothing, but he Just kept "flddlin' round." When his neighbors were -out working, he was fiddling old time airs; while they sawed wood he sawed a tune; he seemea to have no cares. He's living in the poor- house now, without a cent on earth: and It makes him sore to think of all that misdirected mirth. We are not all musicians; we could never knock sky high a tune like old Joe Hawkins could; no use for us to try; we couldn't play a common Jig; we haven't got the touch; but of one thing I am certain, we all flddile most too much. There's work cut out for every one in life's great harvest field, and if we bravely do our part we'll Bhare the golden yield; but opportunity will pass and never make a sound if we saw tunes Instead of wood and just keep "fiddlin round." HARM SEEN IX OWEN MEASURE. Writer Foresees a-carvlng" of School ' Children as Outcome of Proposed Law. PORTLAND,' July 26. (To the Edi tor.) The remarks of Dr. John B. Murphy in The Oregonian of July 23 to the effect that the "spread of know-ledge is a safeguard" and favoring a "Bureau of Health" with a political doctor of the so-called "regular" school in the cabinet, is but one of the dying kicks of a school of healing that is rapidly being relegated to the. scrap pile by a. regenerated public who are finding out that healing by natural methods Is far easier and better than being drugged and carved. Sickness is an effort of nature to expel morbid matter from the system and medicines, which are as poison to the system, merely suppress symptoms and never cured anything. The "regular" fraternity has always fought any advance in the art of healing the sick and still continues its carving, drugging and serum injecting, striving, as usual, to keep the layman In the dark by mysterious Latin names for everything and never coming into the open. There are over 7000 political doctors in the United States service alone, all of the "regular" or allopathic school, and does any one- suppose that If the Owen bill passes, a doctor of any other school would ever get a berth? The League for Medical Freedom is doing a great work In its endeavor to get people their const'tutional right of choosing any kind of a healer they want. Should this Owen bill pass and several thousand more of the carving fraternsjjj-- be saddled on the Govern ment, no home will be safe from in vasion, no school child safe from their craze for carving, as they are already "operation" mad. Thousands of people are legally murdered yearly under the guise of "successful" operations In which the patient dies, but you rarely hear of one physician operating on an other. The people are waking up, but not as Dr. Murphy" would like, and in states like California the more modern schools of healing have made hard sledding for the "regulars." W. A. THOMPSON. Kean'a Wonderful Othello. William Winter's "Shakespeare on the Stage,"- in the Centujjy. The amplest and most superb imper sonation of Othello that ever was ex hibited. If the numerous and almost Invariably enthusiastic accounts of it which exist can be credited, and per haps the most decisively effective im personation of the part shown In the course of the nineteenth century was that of Edmund Kean. The store of superlatives with which the English language abounds has been well nigh exhausted in the celebration of it. . . Haslett designated Kean's Othello as "the finest piece of acting In the world." The Possibility. They say he wearies of the care of Sen atorial life; That Chamberlain is fain to shuffle off. tha totra's fold. tWhich hampers all his efforts at the care-free simple Hie, And he Jearns to seek the peace he had in Oregon of old. But think, O George, at what a cost you won the envied goal A thousand thousand handshakes, and a thousand thousand smiles; Wherefore, then, should you spurn the Job, your mantle yearns to roll, Ta ta to Washington, and hit tha homeward stretching miles? What though the Senatorial life tastes bitter to thy maw. With its stern demands for garden seeds, for pension or appointment, And people's call that this and that and those bo made a taw You should have known that this per tained to Senators' anointment. Bethink then, if you murmur thus, where will the great Doom go. That rumor says Is budding in the dense politic thicket; The honoring words, "He also ran in 1912, you know; VlcevPresidentlal candidate, on Dem ocratic ticket." Dean Collins. July 28, 1911. - Advertising Talk By William C. Freeman. The writer recently bad the pie; of meeting Dr. J.' C. McCoy, af: lapse of many years. He has responded to the "call o wild," which, , applied in his means that after having retired fr practice in which he made a foi by the aid of advertising, he has t- up the pleasant life of a man owns a fine country estate of acres, where for the past six yeai has devoted his time to the stuc: scientific farming: and where he made a close study of the causi diseases of the ear. He has lef this to .return to the fascinatio advertising, feeling that he has s thing worth presenting to the pe Dr. McCoy always was a "sq brick," and he has not changed e He is a reputable physlciaw, graduated with high honors and won, after a competitive examin; the position of physician to Bell hospital. New York. He has the spect and confidence of all physid who Imow him well. He starte advertise years ago, and he money because he was "on the leve He was the first man who Introd the picture aid Interview in adve lng, and to his credit it must be that he never printed an interview was not genuine and not authorize To his crdlt It must be saidalso he never practiced quackery. He sented only the straight facts in advertising. Some years ago when testimori began to be faked by numerous cerns, when such advertising as he been doing was imitated by dlsho advertisers, he stopped advertising together, because he would not party to any deception, nor woul place himself in the position of b classed with those who have Deen credited by the public. The doctor Is a great student, a g believer in the power of common b as applied to tha ills of mankind. believes in the efficacy of com sense remedies and Bimple appllar He tells me that after years of vestigatlon he has now hit upon a of aiding the deaf by the simplest of a device which he purposes to vertlse extensively. He tells me he has been reading the stories Jinro annearerl in this column and has been impressed with the truths we are trying to drive home. He thinks, using his own words, "all advertisements, to be effect must be printed In a newspaper, sublect matter of which the rea. believe; that an advertisment will be believed In a newspaper that Is c less about its news that prints set tlonnl. unreliable stuff Instead news." As an illustration of the force of I statement he said that lately in I cago he used a two-column advert ment In a newspaper, from which received no response. A few days In he used the same advertisement I: newspaper In which the people lleved. The responses were great. Some of the people who called F they had seen the advertisement in first paper, but paid no attention tc because they did not rely upon news or the advertisements in t paper, but when they saw the adv tisement In the second newspaper tl did believe it because they felt t not only the news in the paper reliable, but tha advertisements well. It is not certain that this newspa will get any of the advertising t Dr. McCoy will place. If he wa space with us he can have it. He welcome to this free publicity beca. he deserves it and because his expe ence accentuates the policy this pa is pursuing, viz.: StralEhtforvrard advertising:, bacK by a straight business proposition, In Thy riace. Alnslle's. I searched for love within thine eyes' d maze, And, heartsick, found but friendship's sta gaze; Yet more than I deserved God gave to i And I am better but for loving thee. My heart, once small and selfish, to ma place And house the love I bore thea, gr. apace; And when you left, to tenant it again, I opened It to all my fellow men. Sherlock Holmes Encounters Black Peter in THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN One of the most thrilling of the Sherlock Holmes series will ap pear in tomorrow's magazine sec tion. The piaster aetecuve nere measures wits with a master rogue and wins after endless ex eitinsr experiences. The tale eov. era more than a page, with illusv trations, and is complete in the one issue. How was the battleship Maine really destroyed in Havana Har bor? While the final answer is not yet at hand, some startling developments are disclosed In an illustrated halt-page on tlie pres ent Governmental investigation. Of unusual interest is a full page on the perpetuation of . the great salmon industry in Uregon There is a lot of valuable informa tion, interestingly arrayed, in this feature. Making up, its origin and evo lution, is made the subject of an attractive half page. Queen Elizabeth of RQumania has taken the stand that the re public is the ideal fomi of govern ment. Several columns are de voted to her views, in which she avers that the lot of royalty is a cruel one. Another popular song hit, "Parlor Games," is made the half-page music feature. More Civil War photos, a new Widow Wise adventure; stunts by Sambo and Mr. Twee Deedle.