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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1912)
r " TH E TIM ES | “ RULE OF THE P E O P L E ” in work of drilling will be in progress OREGON W H A T OTHERS within 60 days. “ - — * m + TH IN K OF US. Published every Saturday by THE TIMES COMPANY, Incorporated + at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5637: A-2686. “ Rule of the people” worked its LA B O R HAS W A G E B I L L THE TIMES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents usual miracle in the Oregon prim P U B LISH YOUR LEGAL f ary. The delegation which goes State Federation Will Ask Voters to appearing in its columns. N O T I C E S IN f to Chicago was elected hv the cus Help Regulate Salaries. Fintered in PostolHce at Portland, Oregon, aft second-class matter. + tomary thirty per cent (or there Portland.—A minimum wage bill, A-2686 "»■'A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE Màis 5637 about) of the total poll. In spite which will permit no man over 20 + of the fact that practically two- years of age to work as a clerk, me SOUSCRIPTION RATES—$2.50 per year, in advance. ADVERTISING RATES made known upon application. thirds of all the votes polled were chanic, railroad man, bookkeeper or east for other candidate, Mr. factory hand for more than 10 hours Saturday. May 11. 1012. Roosevelt gets the delegation— a day more than six days a week for under the plurality principle, less than $2.50 has been prepared by E A TTL E seems to have a faculty of electing mayors who shock “ Rule of the people” is truly a direction of the state federation of its moral, patriotic or other sensihilties. The strange part of it beautiful thing in theory. But, for labor and will be placed oil the ballot is that Seattle goes into the business of electing such mayors with its the sake of precision, there should In rlit» November election. Women over 20 years of age are eyes wide open and then shouts with anger when the expected hap be a change of phrase— the style pens. There was the ease of Ili Gill. Mr. (¡ill entered the municipal should lie, “ rule of a minority of not to be permitted to work over 10 hours, more than six days a week, or the people.” campaign in the I’ uget Sound metropolis pledged to give the people The Oregon election supplies an for less than $1.65 as clerks, book an “ open town.” He was elected on the issue. He carried out his other anomalous result in the nom keepers, factory hands, waitresses or policies, lie shocked moral Seattle, and moral Seattle recalled him. ination in the Republican primary at hotel or laundry work. No child J. H. MORTON, M E. ORRIN E. STANLEY It need not he disputed that reformed Seattle acted properly, in of Mr. Hen Selling for the United under 16, It Is proposed, shall be per INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER. M. Am. Soc. C. E. showing its regeneration by cleaning up the town and cleaning out States Senate, as against Senator mitted to work for hire except in har Designs Complete Industrial Plants or any ENGINEERING ADVISER. DRAFTING Jonathan Bourne. Mr. Bourne is vest time or with parent or guardian component part, mechanical or structural. the mayor’s office, but it was to be expected that the voters, after AND BLUE PRINTING. the pre-emient champion of what for less than 15 cents an hour or more Old Plants Modernized. Drafting. the experience with Gill, would show stronger inclination to look has dime to he known as the Ore than six hours in one day. Telephone Marshall 1554. Phone Main 1622. into the proeilivities of its mayoralty candidates. It was a faint hope, gon idea. That is to say, Mr. Farm work is not affected by the 824 Chamber o f Commerce, Portland, Oregon. 924 Chamber o f Commerce, Portland, Oregon. and not realized. Just now Seattle is shocked again. It finds that in Bourne is a progressive of pro bill, except that a minimum wage of $1.65 is established, and where board place of a mayor who condones the red light, it has one who condones gressives. He stands for all the novelties, all the isms, all the and lodging is included in the pay, It ARTHUR D. MONTEITH the red flag. quackeries. Mr. Roosevelt in his shall not be charged for at a greater C. J. WILSON CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER. During a parade. May 1. of I. \Y. \V. members and Socialists, a maddest moment goes no whit sun, than $4 per week. Those receiv General Surveying, Landscape Engineering, ing $4 per day or more and those en COMMERCIAL A RTIST AND group of patriotic citizens of Seattle became incensed at the display further than Mr. Bourne. Yet, in Construction Superintendence, Reports and Estimates on Projects, Water Supply, Irri CARTOONIST. by the marchers of the emblem of anarchy side by side with a masted a primary election in which two- gaged in occupations governed by gation, Sewerage. laws of congress ure not affected. Phones: Main 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. flag of the Union. They tore down the red ting. The marchers then I thirds of the votes polled were fon Portland, Oregon. 348 Market Street, Roosevelt and La Follette, ultra Lumber Exchange Building. turned on the Stars and Stripes. They dubbed it a “ damned rag” j Two of Engine Crew Die progressives. Mr. /Bourne is de Columbia City.—The lugging engine and attempted to trample it under foot. The American flag was cisively defeated. It would be rescued and borne to safety. In a signed statement Mayor Cotterill difficult to account for this result of the Peninsula Lumber company, of ! Phone East 63. this place, while at work in the woods j Increa se Y o u r Business deplores the outburst of patriotism by spectators of the parade; he on any theory not fatal to the con on the logging road owned by the by placing your advertisement in condemns the publication or public discussion of the incident, and be sistency of the people of Oregon. company, eight miles from this place, , U. S. LAUNDRY CO. Apparently the voting body lias THE TIMES. asserts that the red flag is ‘ an international emblem of a peaceful po ran away down a moderately steep j 180 GRAND AVE., COR. EAST YAMHILL, gotten itself in a state of mind so Portland, Oregon. Write for our advertising rates. litical education and evolution toward universal bumnn brother confused as not to comprehend grade, and was derailed and wrecked. ' Engineer William Bodsley and Fire- | h ood,” the plain significance of anything, man Brettan, the latter a resident of The more the operation of our It is not remarkable, in view of these remarks, that the Industrial j Deer Island, were instantly killed. modernized “ rule of the people” Workers of the World bail Seattle’s mayor as benfaetor and patron, is observed, the more it appears while 700 veterans of the Spanish-Anierican war denounced him as Co-Ed Athletes Meet marked by the vagaries of chance Eugene.—Safely hidden from all ; neither American nor patriot. Yet it was a stand that might have I and less by the guidance of con masculine eyes, the women of the Uni- j been expected by the present denunciators, among them arc those sistency and reason. The most ob versity of Oregon held their first offi- | who put him in office. George F. Cotterill is a man of many attain-1 vious fact is. that the new system cial track and field meet here in the of “ rule of the people” is in fact incuts, lie is a polished public speaker, and is personally clean. He men’s gymnasium. The class cup was the rule of a peculiarly low type won by the sophomore women with j has served several terms in the Legislature and has been a candidate of adroit and self-seeking poli for Congress ami other offices. Hut though nutwnrldy a Democrat, lie tician.. We have yet to see one in 470.25 points. The freshmen scored j 302.75 points. An individual system j has persistently and continuously advocated the adoption of experi stance under the new order of of scoring was used. mental governmental vagaries, policies, isrns and theories. The pres things, so loudly exploited as ent order of government, state and national, lias not been good “ rule of the people,” in which MAN S U E S E L E C T I O N J U D G E S enough for him. lie lias not preached gradual improvement, but up the linn I result has not been ati tained by a minority vote. It is so Asks $1500 Damages Because Vote settings and revolutions. 11 is mental looseness was. or ought to in Oregon. It is so in California, Was Refused. have been, known to everybody. No one should he surprised that to where even our Hiram came into Roseburg.— Denied the privilege of impracticable and theoretical Cotterill the specious plea of the an office by the will of much less voting at the election held in the city archists that the red flag signifies universal brotherhood should ap than half the total vote. It is so of Glendale on April 1, of this year, Yes, that is a personal question, a everywhere. In other words, the peal, while he remained blind to actual and open desecrations of the because he was not the owner of real very personal question—one that affects “ rule of the people” is not rule of folate, F. C. Ladd, a merchant of that | American Hag by the frowzy “ brotherhood.” your whole life; and yet you would the people at all. S. F. Argonaut. city, has filed suit in the circuit court I thank us for asking it if you knew what In Union Park Square, New York, on the same day as the Se against the three precinct judges, de an immense power for betterment we attle incident, the same aggregation tore down the Stars and Stripes manding $500 damages from each of could be to you and your salary. with denunciations and hoisted the red banner in its stead. In Port them for the ‘‘humiliation” which, he To draw a small salary month after month, year after year, is your own says, he suffered. The complaint re land these advocates of “ universal brotherhood” have turned a peace fault. It is pure negligence and nothing else, for there is an institution cites that the action of the judges was able meeting into riotous disorder and insulted one of the city’s and that is ever ready to enable you to rise to the highest, best paying posi based on a provision of the city char tions in the profession of your choice—no matter how poor your circum Nation’s noted guests. The speakers of the rabble that call them ter that no nonfreeholder shall be eli stances may be, how old or how young you are, no matter where you selves workers have stood in the shadow of tin* soldiers’ monument gible to vote at a city election. This live. And to prove this the I. C. S. points to hundreds of thousands of SE A TTLE, Wash. “ The Rose provision, the complaint declares, di- ! in the plaza and reviled by name the men who lost their lives while other men who have secured advancement and success through the I. C. S. Festival will la* the biggest show rectly contravenes the state constitu- j lighting for their country. They have torn the American (lag to plan; to hundreds of others in worse circumstances than you are, whose on earth,” said Mr. Ralph Hoyt, pieces and stamped upon the shreds. They have jeered at passing president of the Portland Show tion, which, as interpreted by the slip- j stories of advancement read like romance; to a growth from a mere idea reme court in a test case several with one Course of Instruction to one of the largest educational institu funeral corteges and otherwise abused and spat upon American lib Association. “ The Golden Pot years ago, gives a citizen the right to tions in existence with 208 Courses of Instruction, backed by a capital of erty. All this for the honor and glory of the red ling of “ universal latch will also be the biggest vote at a municipal election, whether i six million dollars, and a total enrolment far in excess of any other col show on earth,” added George he owns real estate or not. The court brotherhood.” lege—a growth made possible only as the result of success in its business Hutchins. " A l l of which makes also held that the election judges | Probably if some present-day Captain Kidd should ravage the two biggest shows on earth,” —and the business o f this place is to raise salaries. would be amenable to actions for dam- I seas and then plead that his skull and crossbones stood for universal chimed in Dr. Drake, vice-presi Without doubt this plan is the most practical, the quickest, easiest, ages. broUirrhnnd. Mayor Cotterill and other parlor Socialists would de dent. These three hustling Port and cheapest way in the world for YOU to secure a better position fend the emblem. It would not he much greater perversion of sound and increased earnings. It puts Democrats to Have Weekly landers arrived night before last and righteous thinking. The red tlag. to the American people, is as you under no obligation whatever Salem.— What is designed to be a International Corresoondence Schools as advance guard of Portland’s clearly the insignia of anarchy, lawlessness and sedition as is the to send us this coupon and allow permanent Democratic weekly maga- | Ad Club delegation which fol Please explain, without further obligation on my part, black tlag the emblem of piracy. The actions of its followers pro our experts to explain our system how I can qualify for a larger salary and advancement lowed yesterday afternoon to zlne, devoted to the state-wide inter- I to the position before which I have marked X. claim everywhere wluit their words attempt to conceal. We know for of instruction, and adapt a Course eats of the Democratic party, was participate in the Seattle club’s Ad Writer to your personal needs. what it stands and should act accordingly. A rchitect Draftsman Show-Card Writer installation of officers and annual started at a meeting of the county Structural Engineer Window Trimmer Do you really want to earn Structural Draftsman In spite of their failure to study beforehand the men they pul central committee. The magazine will Civil Service I rams. high jinks. They are losing no Contractor & Builder Ornamental Designer more salary? Would you like the Foreman Plumber in oilier, some of the people of Seattle are to he commended. It re be published at Salem, and the first : Mechanical Engineer opportunity to host the Rose Fes Civil Engineer Mechanical Drafts. salary bag to yield you more each quires some such action by red-blooded men somewhere to start the R. R. Con. Engineer Foreman Machinist tival. Visitors will be met by a issue will be out about June 1. Surveyor Electrical Engineer week or month? Then make a Mining Engineer wave that will engulf the malcontents and disrupters who have in Electrician Chemist full delegation of local ad men Power-Station Supt. Bookkeeper definite attempt to bring this vaded America. It was good example and Seattle ought to be proud Coal is Struck in Excavation. Architect Stenographer and they will have the greatest about by sending in this coupon. of having given it. As to the other weakness, a few more recalls will Oregon City.— While workmen were | time in the history of the Seattle Tomorrow never comes. Do it probably cure it. excavating on the Farr property. Sev Ad Club. today. t enth and Monroe streets, a few days Street and No. MORE U RENISM . ago. a vein of coal was struck. From City __________ ___ State _ indications it « iw a i* that it is neb R U ’ RKN is ti gtvii lawgiver, no doubt. Ho is groat on giving laws, corta inly. Ilo gave us tho Oregon system, inolilding (ho di rect primary, tho initiative, recall and all. Now ho has .in entirely B R IEF NEW S OREGON now scheme for turning our state and county governments inside out and upside down and he will submit it to the voters at the next elec Trop Condition» throughout Oregon tor Oregon, ana the nomination was tion It proposes to do away with pretty much everybody and every ! having been Hied with city officials. ' ire the beet on record. ordered favorably reported by the sen thing we now have in the way of public officers and public offices, and Three big Columbia river salmon, Lafayette is to have a fine new Events Occurring Throughout ate Judiciary committee to substitute about everything we do not have It includes a Go\ frozen in blocks of ice. will be dis , ichoolhouse. costing $12,000. George and Charles Humphry's, on ernor’s cabinet, a state business manager, county “ directors” and a the State During the Past \ The Kpworth league» of the Eugene played this week in show windows at trial for the killing of Mrs. Eliza Grif business manager, abolition of the State Senate, tirst. second and Dallas. Tex., to advertise one of Ore | Jlstrict met in annual convention at Week. fith at her home near Philomath on third choice of candidates, abandonment of the direct party primary, gon's many resources. l Eugene Friday. June 2, 1911, have been found guilty and so on. With $1.600,000 on hand in the state Plans are being considered to make of murder in the first degree, and Mr. r ’Rren tried a similar stupendous scheme before and it was Hermiftcn Work Moves Ritli Him forest reserve a wild bird treasury. Oregon is better off financi voteti down Now we are to pass on it again. Evidently the people, llermlston. Government officers end game refuge. ally today than ever before in its his sentenced to hang on Friday. June 14. Government land must produce gold «h o never make a mistake, according to the Hourne-F Rren lexicon, here will commence work in a few The Jury in the case of \V. R. Foote, tory. The state has no bonded indebt in paying quantities, and cannot be are to he given another chance days signing up the lands under the charged with murder In the second edness and all debts are paid. Mr. I "Ren is an innovator not a statesman If one system does west extension oi the Umatilla project. degree, at Marshfield, disagreed. Charles W. Thebatid, former presi characterized of mineral value by a showing of merely blend mineral col not suit him, his method is to tear it down, and try another \Ye are Contracts for water rights will be Senator Bourne is urging the estab dent of the Vnited States National not by experimentation or trial to discover the faults of present meth made, and ns soon as this work has lishment of a star route from Burns bank of Vale, has been convicted of ors. according to a decision handed ods. and correct them; hut we are to destroy, and create some other been completed it is expected con to Bend and from Canyon City to getting away with trust property and down In the Roseburg United States land office. struction work will be ordered. Tho Prineville. novelty. converting it to his own use. Postal savings banks will be opened We have had too much of agitation and revolution in Oregon few months’ delay was caused by The strike situation on the Albany The Presidential Postmasters Asso and too little of patient and careful development of our present gov ! legal technicalities, but these have ciation of Oregon. Washington and extension of the Oregon Electric con June 1, at the following fourth class been now overcome and the movement Idaho will convene In Portland June tinues about the same, the company I postoffices: Banks. Bay City, Brooks. emmental scheme. I Coburg, Cornelius, Dayton. Dtlley, forward will become more active. 11. 12. 13 and 14. « working a number of men. and the The thriving little town of Dayton strikers conducting themselves peace- Florence. Gaston. Gervais. Halsey. PERHAPS , Lafayette, Linnton. Monroe. Scap- Concern to Prospect for Oil. ts to have the honor of establishing ! fully. KRIIAFS thè Portland city cnuiu-il is righi poose. Scio. Troutdale. Turner, Wlb Albany.—The Linn County Oil com County Judge Bushey at Salem has the first automobile street car service “ l ’erhaps thè managing director of thè Portland streetear s> s j « o n v i llf v pany. recently organised with a capi signed a temporary restraining order in the state of Oregon. tion in thè franchine of thè Portland street railway. or in anv other talisation of $1.000.000, has secured M u c h E a s ie r. Assessor C. P. Strain of Umatilla enjoining Secretary Olcott from call franchisi'. It *.s much easier to ngre* to what “ Perhaps it ts better l’or a franchine to he indeffuite in its terms tho land leases and other assets of county bas filed a statement of his ing a special recall election against tho Valley Oil company. The com campaign expenses, showing that he District Attorney Cameron of Mult- . you know Isn’t so than to argue with so douhts and litigation tnay arise later over what wns intentici) the man who doesn’t know anything \ nomah county. “ Perhaps stile managing director of thè Portland streetear s\s pany now holds leases on approxi* spent Just 60 cents to be re-elected. alK>ut it.—Purk. mately 0000 acres of land in what is Another effort is being made to have Senator Bourne has withdrawn his tem was wrong and did noi know bis business «ben he said in Port known as the laicomb district, and Baker desert commission form of gov opposition to the confirmation of Les- land. March loth, that thè hintory of thè country sho«s that there Wealth may seek as. but wisdom announcement is made that active ernment. a new petition to that effect ! lie M. Scott as Cnited States marshal shoitld he public regni «tinti fnr puhlie Utilities. »inSt hf* somrht —FrtwsiM Vnnncr THE TIMES A T T O R N E Y S t ATTENTION! THE TIMES SEVEN S INSERTIONS FOR $2.50 t ? D IR E C T O R Y of Portland’ s Leading Business Pirms. What D oes the Salary Bag Hold forYOU? TWO OF THE BIGGEST SHOWS ON EARTH M OREGON NEWS NOTES Of GENERAL INTEREST GF H. H. Harris, Manager, 409 McKay Bldg., Portland