THE TIMES
THE TIMES
The London Chronicle one time suggested that by translating
perpendicular position, veering at the
the French “ o n ” as “ they” one could surmount the difficulty of a j
top about two and a half feet. W ith
in a few duys it was found to veer
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pronoun meaning either “ he” or “ she” . This led to the actual in- i
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six inches more. At this rate it would
sertion in a very popular dictionary of a coined word “ thou” .
not be long before it would fall, not
In a French school where Knglish was taught, an American con
THE TIM ES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents
only a ruin in itself, hut crushing one
appearing in its columns.
sul reports the struggles of a French boy in attempting to conjugate
of the most costly wings of the fac
the verb “ have” in the sentence ‘ ‘ I have a gold mine” . The boy
Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter.
tory.
said: “ I have a gold mine; thou hast a gold thine; he has a gold
Tbe management were in sore dis
A FEARLESS EXPON EN T OF IN D U STR IAL PEACE
hisn ; we have a gold ou rn ; they have a gold theim .”
tress. They were in tbe midst of their
A class at Heidelberg, engaged in the study of the Knglish
busiest maufacturing season, yet work
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must he stopped while the chimney,
language, encountered the same sentence. 1’ rof. W'ulff called upon
A Story of a Mechanical
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Ilt-rr Schmitz:
Genius
to be replaced by a new one. First a
Saturday, January 13, 1912
“ Conjugate ‘ do haff' in der sentence 'I liaff a gold mine.’ ”
scaffolding to tbe top must be erected,
Herr Schmitz proceeded:
brick after brick must come off, then
By SAMUEL G. MONTFORD
Each man should have the right to earn his way,
“
I
haff
a
golt
mine;
du
hast
a
golt
dein
;
he
bass
a
gol?
hiss.
Ye.
be replaced from tbe bottom till tbe
And each should have for fair day’s work a fair day s pay,
you or dey huff a golt ours, yours or deirs. as de case may be.”
stack reached its original height,
Each man should governed be by Justice’s right
"H appy the man who has found his standing perpendicular from its base.
And gain his ends by peaceful means— not dynamite.
Tom, haring reported the matter to
“ THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.”
vocation." This is an old adage which
HE GOOD BOOK says “ The wages of sin is death” . This is true. in these times, when life seems too his employers, was forgotten by them
At first there is a yielding to temptation. Frequent commission short to learn a profession before mid in their anxiety about the chimney.
The same evening they called a meet
of sin begets a calloused conscience, and finally the sin becomes a dle age, the saying should tie, "H appy ing
of engineers and builders to dis
habit, most difficult to break. Within the last few years we have had the boy in whom some especial gift cuss some means of propping the chim
a local illustration of a young man who has had unusual oppor shows itself that can be later on turn ney to tide them over the busy senson.
tunities to establish himself in the good graces of a corporation which ed to success.”
Not an expedient was suggested that
THE TIMES is earnest and outspoken. It advocates
Tom Swartout, a farmer’s son, seem- could be relied upon.
If the stack
would gladly have rewarded his best efforts. Instead of following the
what it believes to be right, and that without fear or favor,
path of strict honesty and integrity, this young mail could not with-
to his father to be worthless be should fall and wreck the wing the
and unencumbered by the shackles of circumstance. THE
st and the tempter, it is alleged, and finally became involved. l i e is cause, as the older mau said, he was loss would he far greater than that oc
TIMES will not swerve from the path of duty, and it cannot
charge-1 with having dishonestly, by means of forgeries, numerous - too lazy to eat. Aud there was rea- casioned by stopping work while the
be purchased or compromised. THE TIMES unqualifiedly sub
and frequent, made way with manw thousands of dollars of his em- | 8011 tor the imputation. Tom detested chimney was being taken down and
rebuilt. The propping plan was aban
scribes to the great principles of human liberty under the law;
plover's money. It is hinted that perhaps othres are entangled in th farm work. The hoe handle would doned, nnd the meeting adjourned with
of equal rights in all fields of legitimate endeavor, industrial
tllcged peculations and that a clean sweep of an entire department j “ eTer s,ieli t0 bls hands, or if it did the understanding that the stack must
freedom and to the advancement of the great Pacific Coast.
may he made. If the guilt of the young man shall finally he estab- we
¡Í,
st° ¡!p>uii iu
come down.
TO THE EMPLOYER.- THE TIMES will ever be open to
The next morning Toni Swartout In
lished beyond all cavil, a blight w ill come upon his young manhood blrd soari'u',, above and wonder "how
the employer of labor, that he may have, through its columns,
taht all the years to come will n o t efface. THE TIMES feels regret ! a kept a axed position without the overalls went Into the office of Mr.
Rogers, president of the corporation,
an opportunity to place the truth before the public regarding
that this is so, hut it is the universal human experience. Fate or 1 slightest visible motion of its wings,
the business conditions which govern him and his environ
dains it. and the decrees of fate are inexorable. \Ve feel greater re- ¡ Under the circumstances life was and, leaning hts bare arms, black with
ments. The co-operation of the employer and the employe are
gret that when the hour of temptation c-ame, the young man in ques- I intolerable to Tom and bis parents, coat dust aud grease, on a rosewood
railing, said reflectively:
the substantial proofs of what has made the Pacific Coast
tion or any other young man similarly placed, failed to have forti No one can blame fathers and mothers
“ Mr. Rogers, I’ve been wondering If
what it is today. Their interests are identical, are inseparable.
tude to trn a deaf ear to temptation. Every time one yields, they whose children seem to be useless for a way of straightening the stnek I’ve
showing their disappointment.
Tom
The mutual experience, foresight and confidence between the
become weaker; every time they manfully stand for what they know knew that be was a disappointment, been thinking about wouldn’ t work."
business man and the wage-earner have made and are making
to be the only right course, they become stronger, and honesty, and one night after an expression of ^'Y ou've been thinking about It! Do
for success. The investments of the one coupled with the efforts
equally with dishonesty, can become a habit. Modern life- in cities I his father’s disapprobation he resolved you know that last night we hud the
of both are solid bulwarks of present prosperity and the assur
lias much to do with so many young men going “ to the bad” . They to leave home and go somewhere else. best engineers In the country tiere dis
ances of the future. Minus these, advancement along the lines
are forced to compete in the ways of extravagant living (or think In the morning, long before dawn and cussing the inatter. and they all agreed
of industrial and commercial progress of the Pacific Coast is
they are), and when they cannot by their toil earn sufficient to keep j before any one was stirring on the the stack must come down."
Tom was nbnut to take his departure
impossible. Without this hearty co-operation, a continuance of
tip the gait with those who have plenty of means, they begin to sock farm, he got out of bed, dressed him
when the president asked. "W h a t's
the highest possible development of our agricultural, horticult
rccourcsc in pilfering, always with the hope of returning it before self aud started down the road he your plan?”
knew not whither.
ural, timberal, mineral and other resources is out of the ques
it is missed. Old Ben Franklin, hits the nail squarely on the head
“ W hy, you know the base is square.”
Then followed hardships that might
tion, and we must retrograde and decay.
when he says that th-- most unfortunate hour for a young man is when have been expected. A week after his
"W e ll? ”
TO THE EMPLOYE.—The columns of THE TIMES will
In- begins to think how lie is to get money without earning it.
“ And tbe stack leans In a perpendic
j departure he stopped at an open door
always be open to the employe, whether he may be an inde
In tin- local ease it is noticeable that a large number of persons of a factory to look In at an engine ular line with one of the faces of the
pendent toiler or claim affiliation with a trade organization.
offered to come to tile unfortunate young man’s assistance with fi- that was moving machinery distribut base.”
"Y e s .”
THE TIMES hopes that by thus affording a medium for the
nanicul aid. There is no fault to find with that, Imt how many in ed through a whole building. There
“ Now, If a line of brick on the sides
interchange of opinions and by untrammeled discussion of la
stances might he cited of cases far l e s s deserving, of young men un was something In the regular and con
bor questions in its columns, that a better understanding will
der arrest charged with the- commission of crimes, perhaps far less tinued stroke of the piston, the steady of the base other than that in the direc
revolution o f the dywbeel. that fas tion the ¿tack leans could ho removed
he brought about between the employer of labor and the man
guilty or even positively innocent, for whom there has come not one cinated the boy. He wondered what
the stack would settle on that side,
who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, THE TIMES
helping hand!
kept It going. He had seen machinery swinging the top toward the perpen
believes that by this method the rights of both will be con
Let us suppose that a young man starts out in life, and little by on the farm moved by hand power, dicular.”
served and advanced.
little is inducted into offices of trust. He follows the even tenor of but nothing driven by heut. While he
“ The removal o f brick under so heavy
In the field of labor THE TIMES will champion the prin
his way, is faithful, honest and upright. Very seldom will he go was looking the engineer, u pale man. a weight would be Impracticable.”
ciple of “ equality of opportunity,” with all that it means to
long unrewarded in the- matter of finanical reward. If his employer who was evidently suffering from some
“ I was wondering If it couldn’t be
independent labor and to the average good citizen. This paper
1 ics not or cannot pay him what he is worth, there are always others disease, began to shovel coal Into the done In this way: Remove the brick at
furnace.
The
work
was
evidently
hard
will be the staunch and undeviating friend of all honest toilers,
ready and waiting who will do so. The laborer is worthy o f his hire. on him. and he stopped to rest between intervals, so as to leave several little
pillars for support.
Now. supposing
of all unshackled, law-abiding, sincere workers; and while
But far and beyond financial emolument is the- basis of the building every shovelful.
we wish to take out three inches of
never denying the right of workmen to organize lawfully, this
of a worthy and honorable name. Old Solomon truly said:
“ I’ll do that for you.” said Tom.
the brick, we begin by removing six
paper will be the unyielding foe of lawless, proscriptive,
“ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.”
The mau looked nt him, then, taking
inches on the other three sides, filling
monopolistic and exclusive labor organizations, because they
a
ten
cent
piece
from
his
pocket,
said:
And Shakespeare declared:
up the spaces with blocks of wood of
are the selfish enemies of their own class, and the common dan
"I wish you would.”
“ Who steals rny purse, steals trash, ’tis something, nothing, anil has
equal thlckuess, leaving three sides
Tom put In the coal, then asked the
ger of the industrial world. Our position in this matter is un
been slave to thousands;
wood Instead of brick. Between the
mistakable, and will be maintained.
But In- who filches my good name, robs me of that which not enrich-- engineer all about the engine—the prin blocks put in brick piers three Inches
ciples on which It worked, what the
THE TIMES will at all times stand for the conservation of
high, which would leave a space of
him, and makes me poor indeed.”
piston accomplished, why the flywheel
human life and energy and character, with all their tremendous
A man can leave behind him no better legacy than an unsullied was there, how uniform motion was three inches, the distance required to
right the stack, between the top of the
potentialities; for the preservation of the community and the
achieved and a lot o f other questions.
piers nnd the top o f the brick piers
nation; for the protection of property; for the flag and its
The man answered his questions and
This done, burn out the woodwork, aud
glorious traditions; for the national life and honor with their
wus
surprised
at
bow
quickly
he
un
And now the world is startled to learn that General Horatic
the upper brickwork of your base grad
pregnant possibilities; for the continuance of a brave, virtuous
Mulford Stratton, commander-in-chief of the United B oys’ Brigades derstood the explanations. Then Tom ually sinks down on to the piers.”
told him that be had left home, had
and patriotic citizenship, without which no nation can be either
of America, recently deceased, led a double lift- up to the very hour
Tom made this suggestion with no
no means of a livelihood and asked If
truly great or really good.
f his death. He had one wife and three children at Paulsboro, South be might not shovel cool and do odd more consciousness of its importance
and ingenuity than if he had prepared
New Jersey, and another in Flatbush, New York City. He must hav jobs about the engine room.
a plan for mending a broken machine.
been a man of more, than usual ability to keep his secret so well that
The engineer went Into the office,
DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH
neither family suspected the existence of the other until after his and when he came back told Tom As he 11 regressed the president kept his
death. Then again, he must have had pretty good money-making that be could slay at a salary of $4 a eyes fixed on him with a growing inter
'■P I1KKK IS no living lunguiige spoken by civilized nations hut that qualities to have been able to take care o f two families, when most week The boy was beside himself est mixed with wonder. When Tom
had finished Mr. Rogers continued to
I
js in a Constant state <>f evolutinn and improvcinent. The San- men find it all they can do to look after one. It is lamentable that with Joy.
stare at him for a few moments, then
One
day
a
wooden
post
that
was
a
Kcrit. llebrew, (Ireek and Latin thè dead languages—nre fixecL in General Stratton, who had been looked up to by so many thousand
brought his fist down on a bell beside
forni. in*orthograp!iy, l'or o I ivìouh reasons. There are slowly being Sunday School boys as a bright and shining example, should after part of one of the machines In the him. A boy came hurrying in and the
building and that was Intended to
added to all living tongues new words, new idioma, due to thè Con all have led a life of deceit. Human nature is really unaccountable turn on n pivot like a rudder post be president thundered out the order:
stant advanees being inaile in thè tields of in ventimi and seienee and at best.
“ Send the superintendent here at
gun to open In Assures as It turned.
in thè arts. There is no langiiHge undergoing more rapici ehanges
Every time it turned the fissures grew once!”
tinnì thè Knglish, due to thè faci that it is so widely spoken. < os-
Within an hour Tom's plan o f right
larger, and It was evident the post
inopolitan in its nature, thè Knglish is stili far from being a perfect
would soon be twisted in two. Some ing the chimney was begun nnd with
work that had been promised the next in eighteen hours had been completed.
tongiic. The welding together of its two inaili acuirceli, thè Teutonie,
morning was dependent on the ma The amount of change to swing the
or Alighe S ii min . and tlio l{oinancc, or Latin. Iias resili tei) in giving
chine. and there was no time to put in top of the chimney Into position was
us a powerful and espressive vehiclc of tlioiight and espressimi, no
a new post. Tom stood beside the fore a matter o f a brief mathematical cal
doulit, luit it has. ut tIn* sanie time, brinigli! us face to face with
man. who was looking at the post not culation and was made before the re
many apparently iiirougriimis clements
We refer to thè inatter of
moval of the brickwork was begun.
knowing what to do.
grainmar and spclling. wliieli are n o diffieiilt of eoinprelicnsion by
“ Get some wedges,” said the coal When the woodwork had all been re
foreigners. So far hm thè bitter is conrerned. there is not wunting
heaver, "aud every time the fissures moved by fire the settling was found
to be correct and satisfactory, and tbe
wlint is pleased to style itsclf tlle Heforiued Spclling Board. Kverv
open fill them up.”
et*
The foreman turned to the begrimed stack stood perpendicular.
inni and agitili. Ibis sclf-appointi'd body scnds mit tu tIn» World a list
f
Mr. Rogers inspected the work, saw
boy In astonishment. Then the wedges
IIE R E V E R a white
of new words ‘ ‘ fonetiklv” spelleil. hoping for tlieir adoption. There
were brought, driven in aud the post that It was good, went to hts office
are some, of eourse. ubo are remlv to adopt anv new fad. and no- I
power
enters
the
B y D r.
and called for Tom Swartout. When
K esd o f Im
wus again rigid.
toriously poor spellerà are of eourse thè verv ones to subseribe to
east and seizes a
Ttie incident advanced Tom many Tom reported he hadn't the slightest
I
N
A
Z
O
perial
Coltene
tlns neiv funghii pian. Lieti thè strenuous Koosevelt fnvored Hc-
pegs in the opinion of bis employers, idea what he was wanted for. The
piece of territory
foriiied Spclling (or ratlicr Dcformcd S p c l l i n g b u i did not ailhere
N I T O BE
o f Ja p a n
and they tried him in various places president handed him a check for |10.-
lo it bei-ause it is inipriieticalde.| Changcs in spclling eiinnot tic ar
^ and when, as always follows, the
Tom looked at It, then at Mr.
*
where good work was needed, but he 000
bitrarily broiigld nbnilt. for sueh are inatters of slow growth. The
fulled in them all.
He bad no apti Rogers for an explanation.
country that has suffered the
“ I would gladly have paid an en
ehanges. wlien inaile, are iinperccptible, bui graduai.
tude for work that did not interest
loss raises a great hue and cry you always bear it said that Japan is him. It was drudgery, and he had not gineer twice that sum,” said the presi
Non tIn* Knglish lauguagc. aside frolli its inaili sonrees. is ad
The INFLUENCE OF been made for drudgery any more in a dent. "fo r your suggestion. It has
mi11 i * i Ily a hoilgc podge. *vitli eopious dnshes o f Spanish, eonsiderahle somewhere behind the enstern country.
saved thousands on the stack—thou
(Ireek, a soli perni of Norman Fri-neh. fraginents o f niodern l-’reneh. J A P A N IS A L W A Y S SUSPECTED. But I can assure you that factory than <>n a farm. There seem sands for breach of contracts and
ed nothing that he could do but assist
I I I thè l'nitcd States words have
(leriuan. Italian and even llussiau
the suspicion is not just.
the engineer, who was a sickly man thousands, besides, for contingent loss
How the Stack
Was
Straightened
T
OUR PL ATF O R M
Japan’s Mission Is to
Unite the East
and West
m
adopted frolli thè tongm-s and dialccts o f thè ahorigincs. In
Lngland inani ivords frolli Ilo- Celtic linve crept into thè Inngiiage.
and a surprisingly largì- uunihcr have come from India. For thè
must pari, it has licen neecssiiry, in mlopting a foreigti word, to
adopt along ivith it thi- grammatica! rulcs governing it in thè
lauguagc frmn ivhcnci- it carne. Tliis has rcsulted in a veri' compli
cateli graniniar. Noiv thè tongm-s einaiintiiig from a purely Latin
sourci* or (ìermanii sourei*. ilo not nn-et Illese cinliarassniciits
It is
conccdcd o f all thè llmnance tmigncs. thè Spanish has thè must
nearly perfi-et grani mar
Writers o f Knglish. in their efforts to a....nnplish smoothness of
dietimi, lune met a stlimhling hlock in thè inatter o f getnlers of per
sonal pronoiuis To reniedy tliis. Mrs Klla Flagg Young. supcrintcn-
dent o f thè Chicago schools. offi-rs ali ingcnioiis solution. Sin- has
coincd tlirce proiionuns. intended to ri-prcscnt both tlu- iiiasciiline
and fcniininc genders at mu-c. For cxninplc:
I i c c i i
“ Ili-’i-r" ineatis “ he or she ”
“ llis'e r" means “ his or her.”
“ Ilim 'e r" means “ Inni or her.”
Ili illustratimi to whieli thè new coined pronouns coniti he put
we quote trom Mrs Young:
“ A principal should so conduct his’cr school that all pupils arc
engaged in something that is profitable to him’er, and where the
pupil is required to use knowledge in accomplishing his’er task
“ I d on ’t see how one can map out the work for the fifth or sixth
giade when be er has always done the work in the grades above or
In-low. ”
! and often wus obliged to nbsent him
WE T H I N K OF OURSELVES IN J AP AN AS THE GO- BETWEEN
self from Ids duties. So Tom was sent
OF THE EAST AND THE WEST AND NOT THE LEADER OF THE 1 back to tbe engine room and made as
EAST AGAI NST THE WEST.
WE PREFER TO BRING TOGETHER sistant engineer. At this work he
T HE NAT I ONS WHI CH HAVE SO LONG TROD DI FFERENT PATHS ; seemed to get on better than at any
thing else, for he loved the machine
AND UNI TE THEM BY BONDS OF S Y M P A T H Y AND RESPECT.
The location of the Japanese empire in the Pacific so far from the
shores of America and from the centers of the world had made the
Japanese G R E A TE R STRAN GERS TO TIIE W ORLD than
almost any other nation. The difficulty of passing from Japan even
to California was enough to make understanding a matter of time.
The tendency to explain the character o f a people by their environ
ments is often OVERDONE. Some western travelers have tried to
explain all Japanes» lifo by our volcanoes and our'earthquakes. But
I think the mental influences have been small. In the Shinto roligion,
where there is a god for everything, there is only on» m»ntion o f a god
of earthquakes. The volcano and the earthquake have had an effect
on our art and our architecture, but not an appreciable effect on the
psychology or emotional life of the Japanese.
The insularity of Japan had made the Japanese a homogeneous
people with a STRONG PATRIOTISM .
that could keep the mills supplied with
power ail day—and all night, for that
matter—wltliout getting tired. In Us
own Held, though senseless Iron, it was
better than a man.
The man con
sumes different kinds of food: coal
alone would feed tbe engine. The
man must stop for sleep and rest: the
engine need never stop.
Several years passed during which
Tom got no further up In the ladder
of success than assistant engineer.
There was a vague Idea among bis fel
lows and hts employers that he was
born for success, but there was a
screw loose somewhere In hts bodily
mechanism. One day when be was a
grown man his opportunity came, and
the only person unconscious of its ar
rival was Tom himself.
He made the discovery that tbe
smokestack, s huge brick, hollow, round
tower set on a square base and a
hundred feet high, had lost lta original
o f business.”
,
•
Tom couldn’t get It through his stu
pid head how a little matter like that
should be made so much of.
A few days after this Torn received
a leave of absence to go home
Nei
ther his father nor his mother knew
him. for he had bought goed clothes
and looked prosperous.
They wel
comed him home, nnd when he set
about supplying their every want they
were thunderstruck.
■'How ever did you do it. Tommy r
asked his mother, beside herself with
wonder
” Oh. I did a little Job on a smoke- •
stack that any other fellow could have
done as well ns I. only nobody hap
pened to think of I t ”
Tom Swartout was given a position
at the factory, which had no name
His duties were to think out all sorts
of problems that were impossible to
others. He was never at a loss for a
device nnd Invented methods for ex
pediting and lettering work which put
enormous profits Into the pocketa of
his employers and made him rich.
All this bis father and mother could
never understand.