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.