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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1912)
TH E TIM ES THE TIMES Superintendent Dodge, o f the City Water Board, has submitted “FIGHTING BOB” EVANS. his report, covering the operations o f the W ater Board covering a A BIRO OF LIGHT, period o f 25 years. This shows total receipts at $8,588,501 and total Published every Saturday by THE TIM E S COMPANY, Incorporated at Ul'J First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5637; A-‘J686. cost o/ operating expenses at $1,685,880. This sum has gone into the His Meeting With His Confedsrats Ths Arctic Tern Shuns the Night by Brother and the Result, Flights From Pole to Pole. TH E TIM E S is not r. iponsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents extension o f mains and betterments. The W ater Board has issued Tradition bus It that after young It used to tie thought that the golden $5,650,IK)0 in bonds fo r improvements. Other items of expenditure Robley D. Evans went lo Annapolis be appearing in its columns. plover bore off the palm for length of show: Purchase of private water works. $1.116.08!); gravity system wasn't long In showing bis mettle. (tight between summer and winter mid class matter. Entered in Poatolfire at Portland, Oregon, improvements, $5,157,877; new mains. $2,997,124; interest on bonds The story of bis lirst assertion o f his homes, but an article in the National A FEARLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE and sinking fund for bond redemption, $270,500; totai expenditures personality runs after this fashion: Geographic Magazine awards that dis for 2.) years. $14,382,944; total cost o f present system. $ 1.1-‘16,302. When be left for the Naval academy tinction to the arctic tern This bird SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance. During 1911 the receipts o f the Board were $748,996 and disburse his mother gave him a framed eopy of breeds us far north as It can find any AD VE R TISIN G RATES made known upon application. the Lord’s Prayer and Instructed him thing stable on which to construct its ments for repairs, operation and maintenance. $195,016; interest on to hang it over his bod He complied, nest. It has been found within seven bonds, $190,000; net profit to eity. $363,986. Bonds amounting to notwithstanding the fact that the rules Saturday, February 10, ’ 12 $1,900,000 were sold in 1911. The receipts for the year exceeded of the academy forbade the placing of and a half degrees o f the pole itself And that- nest was found surrounded Each man should have the tl right to earn lus way, those o f 1910 by 10.4 per cent. Portland expends a great deal to decorations in the rooms. An inspec by a wall o f newly fallen snow, which Anil each should have for fair d a y’s work a fair d a y’s pay, tor remonstrated with him nnd ordered the mother bird had carefully scooped keep on the water wagon, but it is money well spent. Each man should governed lie by Justice’s right him to remove the prayer. Evans out from round her chick. And gain his ends by peaceful means— not dynamite. swore that he would smash the face o f The teru arrives in the far north From figures which have come to the notice of TH E TIM ES, the lirst until who touched it. The in about June 15 an$ leaves again for the we note that Portland is not the only eity on the map in this neck spector referred the act o f insubordi south toward the last o f August, when o f the woods which is making progress. The smaller cities o f Ore nation to the commandant, who took it the young are able to fly strongly. T w o gon and o f Western Washington— territory tributary to Portland— up with the secretary o f the navy. or three months later the birds are to are likewise in the van o f progress. This is particularly so in the Evans wrote home about the episode. be found skirting the edge o f the ant matter o f building construction. Most o f the cities in question are It got into the papers. An indignation arctic continent, 11,000 miles away. meeting was held io his borne town What their track is over that vast planning to erect fireproof structures, the total cost o f which will and a protest made to the president. TH E TIM ES is earnest and outspoken. It advocates space no one yet knows. A few Indi extend away up into many millions o f dollars. Conservatively the In the end a special dispensation was viduals are occasionally seen along tho what it believes to be right, and that without fear or favor, total is placed at $20,000,000. Now. the most encouraging thing in granted, allowing the cadet to keep his and unencumbered by the shackles of circumstance. TH E New England or Long Island coast the matter is this: that Portland is the natural distributing center “ decoration.” in the fall, hut the docks o f thousands TIM ES will not swerve from the path of duty, and it cannot Being a Virginian, young Evans was and thousands o f these gregarious birds from which must come a large proportion o f the building material be purchased or compromised. THE TIM E S unqualifiedly sub to be used. This great sum. aded to the $27,000,000 that the rail urged by his mother to throw In his lot which alternate from pole to pole have scribes to the great principles of human liberty under the law; roads w ill expend this year, largely through Portland channels, can with the south when the pivll war never been met by any trained observ of equal rights in all fields of legitimate endeavor, industrial came. This he declined to do. so It fell not but aid tremendously in livening tip trade conditions and thi: out that he and his brother fought on er competent to learn their preferred freedom and to the advancement of the great Pacific Coast. path and tlieir time schedule. They w ill make 1912 a notable year. opposite sides during the civil war. must travel at least 150 miles each TO TH E E M P LO YE R — TH E TIM E S w ill ever be open to On one occasion Robley Evans entered day—apart from their flights In search the employer of labor, that he may have, through its columns, u restaurant In Washington and ob or in pursuit o f food—to carry them I f one wanted an example o f the general irresponsibility of labor served his brother eating. an opportunity to place the truth before the public regarding within ten or tw elve weeks from one unions in Portland, they would not have to seek very far. It has de the business conditions which govern him and his environ "A n exchange o f glances between us volved upon T IIE T IM E S to make a quiet investigation into the was quite enough." said Evans after end of the world to the other. ments. The co-operation of the employer and the employe are The urctic terns enjoy more hours affairs o f one local union alone, the name o f which fo r the present ward. "N ot a word was spoken by o f sunlight than any other creatures the substantial proofs of what has made the Pacific Coast what it is today. Their interests are identical, are inseparable. shall not be disclosed. W e find that three treasurers have had fat either o f us. He paid bis bill and has on the globe. The sun never sets dur The mutual experience, foresight and confidence between the pickings. Members o f the organization paid in their dues in hard- tily left the place, knowing very well ing their stay at their northern nest earned money. In good faith they selected a treasurer. As soon as that I would report his presence in the ing grounds, and during their stay in business man and the wage-earner have made and are making city. 1 ordered more oysters than I for success. The investments of the one coupled with the efforts the union’s funds reached an amount worth while, the treasurer, who wanted and took plenty of time to eat the south they have two months of of both are solid bulwarks o f present prosperity and the assur should have shown himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him. them. H e had come across the Poto continuous sunlight nnd practical day ances of the future. Minus these, advancement along the lines decamped, always leaving an empty cash box behind hint. In this mac in a skiff. 1 was sure, and had tied light for two months more. The birds have twenty-four hours o f daylight for of industrial and commercial progress o f the Pacific Coast is one union the same thing has happened three times within the past It to an old sycamore tree near the between six and eight months o f the impossible. Without this hearty co-operation, a continuance of twelve years. This union must be an “ easy m ark” . Perhaps there spot where we used to swim. I want year. the highest possible development o f our agricultural, horticult are other unions equally as bad off. Unionism comes high, but it ed to give him a brotherly chance to ural, timberal, mineral and other resources is out o f the ques seems that the rank and file who pay the fiddler are bound to have it. get back to Virginia soil. He gained FORESAW HER DOOM. bis boat and escaped, though a soldier tion, and we mu3t retrograde and decay. fired at him In the darkness. On leav TO TH E E M P L O Y E .— The columns of TH E TIM E S w ill The AVilde case ended with an instructed verdict in behalf ing the restaurant I met an officer o f Warnings of Her Tragic Fate That Came to Empress Elizabeth. always be open to the employe, whether he may be an inde o f the defendant, who is cleared of all blame in connection with the provost guard and Informed him In “ My Royal Clients” M. Paoli, the pendent toiler or claim affiliation with a trade organization. the wrecking o f the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. The ju ry even that there was a Confederate soldier famous French detective, writing o f T H E TIM E S hopes that by thus affording a medium fo r the went so fa r as to issue a special signed statement expressing its full in Washington. the unfortunate Empress Elizabeth of *' ‘H ow do you know?’ he asked. interchange of opinions and by untrammeled discussion o f la confidence in Mr. W ilde, and to extend him an invitation to make •' That.’ I replied, 'is none o f your Austria, who was so foully murdered bor questions in its columns, that a better understanding will in Geneva in 1898, says that two Portland his home, where it said he would be assured of a welcome. business.' be brought about between the employer of labor and the man strange incidents Incline one to the It was a signal victory fo r Mr. AVilde. As to the outcome, TH E " I was arrested and taken to the who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. TH E TIM E S TIM E S has but little to say. The court has spoken; the ju ry has provost marshal, who. on hearing my belief that the empress received a pre believes that by this method the rights o f both w ill be con spoken and thus is closed one chapter more in this celebrated ease. story, let me go.” —Chicago Record- sentiment o f her tragic end. served and advanced. “ On the eve o f her departure for O f course, the way it has all ended will be fu lly satisfactory to the Herald. Geneva she asked Mr. Barker to read In the field o f labor TH E TIM E S w ill champion the prin depositors whose funds were juggled in the risky game of high fi- her a fe w chapters o f a book by Mar ciple o f “ equality of opportunity,’ ’ with all that it means to Why 1881 Was Chosen. nanciering to their loss. In 1881 a so called prophecy o f Moth ion Crawford, entitled ‘Corleone.’ In independent labor and to the average good citizen. This paper er Shipton’s was in every one's mouth: which the author describes the detest w ill be the staunch and undeviating friend of all honest toilers, able customs o f the Sicilian Mafia. The world then to an end shall come of all unshackled, law-abiding, sincere workers; and while The tax roll laid before the County Clerk last week shows that In eighteen hundred and elghty-one. While the empress was listening to never denying the right of workmen to organize lawfully, this the amount o f the tax levy is $7,654,941.53. Itemized, the tax roll A traveling tailor denied Inspiration the harrowing story a raven, attracted paper w ill be the unyielding foe of lawless, proscriptive, shows that the state tax is $1,200,429.46; school tax. $405,550.49; to this prognostic, nor, as now appears, by the scent o f some fruit which she monopolistic and exclusive labor organizations, because they county tax, $1,167,985.42; road tax, $259,552.31; county library, was it remarkable for accuracy. But was eating, came and circled round are the selfish enemies of their own class, and the common dan $243,330.29; Port of Portland. $475,178.24; City of Portland. $2.014.. he went further. H e demonstrated in her. Greatly impressed, she tried to ger of the industrial world. Our position in this matter is un 154.70; City o f St. Johns. $28,705.33; Gresham, $1,578.82; Fairview, the dust o f the road why that exact drive it off, but in vain, for it con date was chosen. Not only was it stantly returned, filling the echoes with mistakable, and w ill be maintained. $1,192.68; Troutdale, $562.47; Linnton, $2,851.06; School District No. cabalistic, a multiple of nine. etc., but its mournful cronkings. Then she rap TH E TIM ES w ill at all times stand for the conservation of 1, $1,800,436.92. This seems like considerable money, but it is an it was the only date available to Moth idly walked away, for she knew that human life and energy and character, with all their tremendous evidence o f growth, and if Portland and Multnomah are to keep er Shlpton which In Arabic numerals ravens are harbingers of death when potentialities; for the preservation of the community and the their plaee in the front rank they are w illing to pay the price. was the same backward, forward and their ill omened wings persist in flap nation; fo r the protection of property; for the flag and its upside down. Eleven hundred and ping round a living person. glorious traditions; for the national life and honor with their “ Again, a lady in waiting told me eleven was past, and not till 1881 would Milwaukee. AViseonsin, has had enough o f Socialistic rule. It the coincidence recur. The next Moth that on the morning of that day she pregnant possibilities; for the continuance of a brave, virtuous has found to its sorrow, that the impractical doctrines o f Socialism, er Shlpton " i l l select 8008, which is went into the empress’ room, ns usual, and patriotic citizenship, without which no nation can be either as applied by its Socialistic mayor are failures and w ill spell ruin if not tomorrow or next day.—London to ask how she had slept and found truly great or really good. her imperial mistress looking pale and continued. To this end fo r the first time in the c ity ’s history. Re Saturday Review. sad. publicans and Democrats have united to put a Citizen's ticket into “ ‘I have had a strange experience,’ T ranslation. the field. It has been found that with the Socialistic m ayor’s term Schubert’s well known “ Lied des ge said Elizabeth. ‘I was awakened in ONE T H IN G U N IO N IS M DID. o f office now drawing to a close, that the public expenditures have fangenen Jagers” is a setting o f Her the middle of the night by the bright der's German translation o f Scott’s moonbeams which filled my room, for C K V E U A L Y E A R S ago it reputable mid lngli class building concern been enormously increased without any compensating benefits. OUR PLATFORM ^ - the Thompsoii-Stiirrott Coinpimy opened offices in this eity. This eoiupany was prepared to enter the field o f eonstruction. It ran up against a snag with which other concerns are still grappling — the nnrcasonahlcncss of the demands of organized labor. It learned that if it was to continue in the work of construction in Coast cities, it must do so with a millstone about its neck in the matter o f the union schedule. To make bids on work this company very properly desired to make a reasonable profit, lint to make this profit, to which it was legitimately entitled, it could afford to pay only what the work was worth. Here it was that the union scale stepped in, demanding pay fo r workmen which was most exorbitant and unrea sonable. There was only one thing left for the Thompson-Starrett Company to do, and that was to quit the field. So widely spread was the evil side of unionism that the company closed all its I’aeiliv Coast offices and shipped its apparatus East. While this diil away with a competitor and your local institutions a freer field, there has been a distinct loss to Pacific Coast business in terests. Local concerns some day must unite and wage a war o f ex termination upon the union bogey. It is surprising, indeed, that labor on the ('oast, only 5 per cent of which is unionized, should he allowed to dictate to employers indefinitely, to their undoing. .The oft stated argument made by TH E TIM E S that the 'laborer is worthy ot his hire, still holds good. lie is entitled to a fair day 's pay for a lull day's work, but is not entitled to demand so great a wage that be becomes the means o f totally undoing the employer for his own selfish ends. Such a doctrine persisted in will work ruin. When the goose that lays the golden egg is killed, the union man who arbitrarily insists on being paid more than he etui earn and more than his em ployer can pay . will, like Othello, find his occupation gone. lyric. “ My bawk is tired of perch and hood.” the second line o f which— W hatever else betides, let us hope that Portland may be spared M y Idle greyhound loathes his food— the horrors o f a Chinese tong war. The gunmen and hatehetnien runs in the German ns follows: when stalking a foe are as swift as the lightening and with their Mein m ussiger Windhorn sein Futter ver Oriental craftiness are generally too w ily to be caught. Though seem schmäht ingly entangled at times in the police dragnet, they are exceedingly In by far the largest collection of dexterous in slipping through the meshes. Schubert’s songs published with Eng lish words this line appears with the following English text: the servants find forgotten to draw the blinds. I could see the moon from my bed, and it seemed to have the face o f a woman weeping. I don’t know If it is a presentiment, but I have an idea I shall meet with misfortune.’ “ And it was a few' hours later that Lucchin! killed her with a three cor nered file clumsily fitted to a wooden handle. In one d a y it is reported. 400 Chinese who caught the cue. lost My musical woodhorn its flutter hath u qiiequo. One can now point out in Portland at least who are in stilled. Where the Cold Is Warm. I have seen sunshine, oh, sunshine “ the 400' in Chinese eire es. Such a shedding o f hiii!’ »iu hair on the Which could only have been perpe local market at one time ought to knock out the com er on hair if trated by some one to whom English as splendid as yours, among my lie and German were equally unknown.— loved mountains In Switzerland! You one existed. London National Review Easy to Keep Afloat. I f every person knew that it is im possible to sink i f one keeps his arms under water and moves his legs as If he were going upstairs nnd that one may keep this motion up for hours be fore fatigue ends it there would be few* casualties Such is the fa c t Ex cept where cramp renders motion im possible the man who gets au invol- I untary ducking has small chance of drowning. He can generally keep | afloat until rescuers appear. The peo- ; pie who drown are those who frantical- 1 ly wave their arms out o f water and j lose their self possession Mathematical Snakes. Gazing at a collection o f serpents at the zoo. the rural visitor observed. “ My gracious, those snakes must mul- | tiply rapidly!” With u twinkle in his eye the keeper | replied. “ Some kinds do. but these par ticular ones are adders’’ —Judge's Li- I brary. The commercial bodies of Portland and the railroad companies, too, in their literature o f exploitation have confined themselves to truth. They have properly dwelt upon Oregon’s resources. They have invited the farmer to come to the State and aid in its develop ment. They have never sought to have the mechanic, the clerk and other wage earners to our cities Those who have come have done so The Proper Caper. o f their own volition. To those who have not been fortunate, pity is Ascum—Tell me which Is proper. due. When one looks over labor union papers published in the East, Would you say “ It is possible tor two will find that they are the ones who have encouraged the immigra to live on $10 a week’’ or “ on $10 tion o f mere wage-earners to the Coast, with the false statements weekly?” Wise—Well. I ’d say “it Is possible for two to live on $10 a week that there were not lacking a world o f opportunity. How incon weakly.” — Catholic Standard and sistent, then, becomes the recent action o f the Portland Labor Coun Times. cil in sending out broadcast its lying and malicious letter to the Governors of all States regarding Portland and Oregon The injury Vspy Mean. sought to be indicted on the eity and State emanating from such He—l believe that every man should prejudiced and irresponsible sources, may do some harm, but not do something to advance scientific much. Another letter, sent out by our commercial bodies to the Gov knowledge When I die t shall leave my brain to science. Sbe- Stingy ernors o f every State, telling the simple truth would largely offset th in g —Judge the previous mischievous letter. It appears to us that this is the AUGUSTUS V A U G H A N , proper solution of this irritating action by the harebrained busy- Baritone, with the Abom Opera Company, in its revival o f The B < y We should be surprised not at oaf bodies who composed and issued the letter defaming tins fair city hemi&n G i r l ” at Heilig Theatre, four nights, commencing Sunday, good deeds, but oar had ones -P h il February 11th. Special price matinee Wednesday. and State. J . iiif Ups Brooks. know what cold Is nnd what warmth Is, but do you know what warm cold is? Did you ever live a whole winter through glowing because the frost was so warm? Do you know the wonders of blue ice, pink snow and 40 degrees o f frost, while the men skate in pana mas and tlie girls with open parasols? And the splendor of colors in the morning sky; everything Li the solar spectrum—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet: at each moment a new* combination. And then the sun is up, and the intoxication of it all makes you wonder if you ever lived before.—Dr. Aked in Christian Herald. Wouldn’t A4t a Lie. Theater Manager—You say you ob Ject to having real food on the table in the banquet scene. Mr. Greesepaynt? Why, the rest o f the company are de^ lighted at It! Mr. Greesepaynt—Yes, but my part requires me to rise from the table' after a couple o f mouthfuls and say: “ I cannot eat tonight—a strange dread comes over me I will seek the quiet of yonder apartment for a time.”— McCall’s Magazine. Unfair. “ I s'pose it's all right,” said Mr. Newrieh. "but It doesn't seem fair.” "W hat doesn't seem fair?" "F o r Matilda to scold because 1 want to eat dinner In my shirt sleeves. I don't make any fuss about her par ty dresses, an' they haven't any sleeves at all.” Both Exempt. "D o ynnr daughters help their moth er with the housework?” "W e wouldn't think of expecting I t Mnrlel ts temperamental aad Zasa 1» Intense."-Pittsburgh Post.