THE TIMES
THE
TIM ES
The committee on industrial education of the National Metal
I fades Association, in its report at the recent conventiorl. states its
Lubliahed every Saturday by TH E TIM E S COMPANY, I ncorporated
'■diet that, to a considerable extent, our labor difficulties can be
at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones. Main 5C37 7; A-26*fl.
traced to lack of efficiency; and that a cure can he found only in a
chan ¡re to increased intelligence, from incompetence to competence,
THE TIM ES is not responsible for any opinions expr*.
by correspondents "o this end. it advocates the furtherance of National and State pol-
appearing in its columns.
! ieies in extending aid for industrial education and also recommends
the continuance by the Association of financial support to the Xa-
Entered in Pt
at Portland, Oregon,
>ud <
' ¡onal Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education.
D IR E C T O R Y
of Portland's
ORRIN E. STANLEY
SI BS* R IPTIO N RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance.
AD VE R TISIN G RATES made known upon application.
Saturday,June 8, 1912
W E LC O M E T H E M A C H IN E
J. H. MORTON, M. E.
INDUSTRIAL
M. Am. Suc. C. E.
A FEARLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE
" I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man. care
ful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained o f bad luck. ”
— Addison.
Leading Business Firms.
ENGINEERING ADVISER.
DRAFTING
AND B L U E P R IN T IN G .
Telephone Marshall 1554.
Phone Main 1622.
824 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. 924 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon.
! there been as much advancement in
I.W.W PLAN TO
j the way of improvement* and new in-
C. J. WILSON
I dustries.
MAKE FIGHT
IN NORTHWEST LIMIT FOR INITIATIVE CLOSE
that I
< »114 if tin mistakes labor makes is opposing mechanical
which increase production of the individual. Often we hear
organized labor has lent itself to the defeat o f adoption of a new
CARTOONIST.
th Increase Your
ICON NEWS NOTES
GF GENERAL INTEREST
Throughout check over me names_
Planters have been urged to burn part of their cotton crop, in
order to enhance the market value o f the remainder. With the same
object, part of a coffee crop lias been burned; and we believe there
are other instances of deliberate destruction for the purpose o f con
verting an nvcrsupply into an iiudcrsiipply and boosting prices, for it
is a regret a hie fact that the world will pay you more for producing a
little less than it wants of a given commodity than it will for produe
mg a little more than it wants.
Hunting good cotton or good coffee, or any other tiling, the pro
diietion o f which costs much effort, and the use of which i" profitahh
to man, goes against (lie grain o f human nature, however. It seems
essentially immoral and a rank flying in the face of bountiful Provi
dence. So far as we remember, labor is the only good commodity
which habitually burns itself up in order to maintain a remunerative
market price. A report happens to ln> at limn I containing official re
turns of strikes and lockouts in various European countries.
The
statistics for Great Britain. Era lire and Austria arc made up in much
the same form
A four year average shows that about eight million
days' work are annually lost in those three nations through strikes.
That much labor is burned up every year. With three hundred work
ing day" in the year, we have the equivalent of twenty seven thousand
workmen perpetually idle for Ibis cause.
'I'o an impartial observer, it would seem that labor is the very last
eoinmodity that should be burned up Saturday Evening Post.
CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER.
General Surveying, Landscape Engineering,
Construction Superintendence, Reports ami
Estimates on Projects, Water Supply, Ir r i
gation, Sewerage.
Only One Bill Ready to go Before
Res. Phone E 6185.
348 Market Street,
Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5645.
Voters out of 40 to 50 Discussed.
Lumber Exchange Building.
Salem.— Although there are between j - - - - - - - - - - - — - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
re- 40 and 50 measure* under the initla-
machine which will • lirninat** a portion of the workmen formerly re-1 ^to^i^atUe^i^Latea?Re
nuired. As an immediate justification, it is said hv tin* laboring man ■ i i / w i i *?
w
i
.
.
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I IHH^I I AM. Wash.— As the
that lie has a right to stand against a system which cuts some of his i stilt of a conference o f 1 \V \V
fellows out of employment.
| leaders, held in Seattle recently J a
!° bringing them before the
Here is where a mistaken philosophy prompts labor to hit** itself.
plan of I hoinas Ilalero, mem-1 ^ *
Nottmber it seems prob
able that many of these will never
Lahor never was given a more welcome heijuest by society than ma* i her of tin* general board of direc
tors.
, ,
<«.rs. is
.s sail
sam to have been adopted. ! * ? h, ,be haUot tbrvugb a fallure ,0
. b m . s w h i r l , save human energy and multiply the production of t h . | T(lis p|MII |>r„ vi(i(.s f(„. movi * al| ta,t,ate ln time-
imli\ ¡dual,
Harnessing forces o f Xaturi and placing them al the i uf the agitators from San Diego!, 1 “ ’ier ,h<‘ law' July 4 W|H be the
from the I ^
P « « ‘on-
hack o f the rare is in fact tin- vorv framework and foundation of ! to Seattle a n d .......
progress
latter city an agitation for a strike i “ 1 " ? '
m 5' ‘8
last day
tin Northwest com-1 ° nWh,ChfaVOrablearKumen,8ioranjr
1 7
. . . . . where
.
. . . bearers are „ the . .... ..... 11iiroiigboiit
throughout the
Iii ( ( L hum „ th ere are districts
coolie
.
, measure may be filed. This g ive« a
¡carers
transpor- mcncing August 1
1 is planned , comparativejy ehort time ior
secur-
tation medium fo r heavy freight. Thes powerful laborers trudge to move the Grav
Harbor head- lns over
r.ames on petitions for
day after day with packs on their shoulders. 'They would Ifitvi the quarters from iln<|uiam to Centra- |
bili
same right in protest against tin- use of horses, camels, boats, nr steam lia. and to divert to that point all
The only bill so far received Is a
Inenmotives that any laborer lias tn refuse admission of a labor-sav money now going to Sail Diego j proposed constitutional amendment
An investigation indicates that the
ing machine. One horse would displace three coolie bearers, lint membership among loggers and | providing for woman's suffrage. July
j 2- is the last day on which arguments
freight conveyed is made cheaper to the consumer by the horse, three sawmill employes is falling off.
opposing any measure may be receiv
human beings are given opportunity to rise to a higher level than
ed. and September 11 is the last day
were beasts of burden, ami a step in civilized progress is recorded.
j for the secretary of state to mail out
initiative and referendum pamphlets.
Displacing a man who lias a position is unpleasant. It can onlj
Secretary Olcott fears that there
hi- justified by the general good. Labor um|ilestionab)y has the right'
will be such a rush of petitions at the
In demand as machines enter and the power of the individual is in
| last moment it w ill be practically im-
creased. larger earnings. It was upon this principle that, when the
P
. ble for the clerks in the office to
articulated Mallet locomotives, doing twice the duty nf the former Events Occurring
mogul, were put on certain railway lines, the engineers asked for a
the State During the Past
Gcbhardt is Freed.
substantial increase in pay for operating them. No more labor was
Oregon City.— Following a dramatic
Week.
reipiired to handle one Mallet than the single type preceding, but the
hearing. Justice of the Peace SamsoD
dismissed the charge of murder
engineers lelt that a portion of the increased earnings being assured
Mining Oates Postponed.
against August Gebhardt. The court
by invention and progress should go to labor, which is right, in some
Baker.— Word was received by the held that Gebhardt shot and killed
measure which society has never yet seen fit to apportion.
B ik er commercial club from L. D. Robert Bindley, a farmhand, in de
If organized labor set about establishing a rule for apportioning Malone, of the Oregon Mining Con fense of himself and wife following a
the profit of inventions, and improved conditions, and gave its full gress, that the state mining conven party at which beer was served.
tion. which was to have been held this
••nergies to swift increase in the producing power of the individual,
month, hs been changed to August 5,
A FAMOUS BEACON.
real progress would be quickened.
i and 7. immediately following the
BURNING UP LABOR.
ARTHUR D. MONTEITH
COMMERCIAL A R T IS T AND
.
I : S ÖI N E ER.
| Designs Complete Industrial Plants or any
j component part, mechanical or structural.
Old Plants Modernized.
Drafting.
meeting of the governors in Boise, The Navesink Light. Near Sandy H ook
Idaho. It is planned to bring the gov
Is a Wonder.
ernors here to the convention.
•rhe moat powerful IlKbt In America
Is boused on n promontory near Sandy
Hook. 250 feet at>ove the beach, where
It acts as a safeguard to all ships en
terlng or leaving the harbor of New
York. It Is called Nnveslnk light and
Is of 95.000.000 candle power. At Of
teen or twenty miles its hash Is as
pointed and brilliant as a star. On a
perfectly clear night Its shaft of light
can I k * seen 100 miles at sea
When
it was erected It was operated at twice
Its present candle power. Hut ocean
pilots objected* to Its strength. Raying
that so amazing an electric flash ac
tually blinded them and interfered
Martin's Rapids to be Harnessed.
Uncle Sam heard
Eugene.— Plans for the developmen with their work
of 12,000 to 14.mil* horsepower at Mar Hie prayer of the pilots and turned
tin's Kapids on tile McKenzie river. down his |>et lamp to 95.000.000 candle
power
33 miles east of Eugene, are being
The amount of oil consumed by the
made by the Oregon Power company, engine that provides the power for
am! surveying parties In charge of |
is only on.- gallon and seven
C. B. Nichols, chief engineer, will go eighths ho hour That Is the astonish
to tin* rapids to make further surveys. lag thing to the unselentltli- visitor—
Probably $1,000.000 will be required the i-iiniparatlvely small expense and
effort repaired to maintain so great a
to develop the project.
light. There an* »w o fair sized dyna
tnos and two oil engines. One set Is
NEW COUNTIES PLANNED slwavs kept In reserve. Of course
the tremendous candle power Is devel
Bill to be Placed on Ballot by Initia oped tiy means of n great lens, made
tive In November.
in France
'The lens weighs seven
Portland.— Creation of new counties tons and a halt. Is seven Inches thick
and tin- consolidation of contiguous and rests in meredrv
It Is revolved
F A L L A C Y OF M A K IN G W O R K
incorporated cities and towns by the with ease. —Kafunlay Evening Dost.
Some workmen lime th«* idea that, if they refuse to work today,
people of the territory directly Involv
nr for six months, the work will still remain In lie done; but this is ed are provided for in a proposed gen
Purely Mental.
Mrs. Holden had heen blessed with
entirely wrung. This iilea is carried so far by tile trades unions that eral law which will be submitted to
remarkable eyesight all her life.
It
they believe each workman should he restricted m bis output, and the voters of this state next Novem was a great trial to her when at the
Hint llic mass of workmen would In thereby benefited
This fallacy ber.
j age of seventy-two she was obliged to
The draft of such a measure was j put on "reading glasses.'' "But thev
is due to n failure In keep in mind i \cry simple truth the more we
com pleted at a m eeting In Se Johns I are really becoming to yon. Aunt till
produce, lln- more we have; the less we produci the less we have.
!>> a special committee, consisting of da." said a gentle niece by wny of con
lì T. ( 'rane, in Valve World
the city attorneys of Seaside. Si solatlon.
John and Cottage Grove The mem
“ No. they aren't." snld Mrs. Holden,
hers of the committee were
\ \\ with her usual scorn for compliment.
Hod made the world in six days, hut Portland is not near finished
Nortdad, of Seaside; I' C Stroud. 0f “ Anybody'« eyes look better without a
yet. A city is what its citizens make it. There are no speli things as St. Johns, and J. C. Johuson, of Cot glass In front of 'em. and you know It ”
cities of destiny. Three men of one accord, of one mind, and of one tage Grove.
"But yon couldn’t rend without
them.** ventured the niece, "and you
opinion, can revolutionize a city, a state, a nation; tin- trouble is to
The proposed bill provides that new
lo v e "-
get three men of one mind
Portland has now arrived at a stage that counties may be created from the ter
could, too. rend without 'em.” »aid
nothing can stop her growth; Imi good business administration and rllory of one or more old counties, the old lady, refusing to be soothisi.
provided that the county from which ” 1 could rend most as well as ever, but
the concerted actions for good of lier citizens can make her grow and territory is taken shall have remain
I couldn't sense It all—that'a the only
prosper so fast that in twenty ve years or less sin- will he the fourth ing an area o f not lt-ss than 500 square trouble."— Youth's Companion.
city of the Nation
The proper authorities should at once clean up milt's, a population of 2000 and pro
and beautify that part of the city between the railroad bridge and perty of not less than 12.000,000 as
Th« Deep See Lead.
In order to mid a ship's position
the I'nion Depot there are old dumps and eyesores there ttint were sessed valuation, and provided further
that the i reposed new county shall I when approaching the land tn a fog
there when Columbus lauded. These things give tin- stranger a very
also h t h e same minimum as to soundings are taken with the ''det-p sea
had impression Necessity will compel Portland to put elevateti "idc an-a, population and property valua- 1 lead " This lend weighs twenty eight
pounds and Is nttacniHl to a line which
walks in the business center within a few years. These will undoubt lions.
The creation of a new county may ** it*>*rked od tn fathom» by banting of
edly lie conveying sidewalks
be proposed by petition of 30 per cent VHr*ous colors, pieces of leather and
Bored in the base of the lead
.of the legal voters residing in the ter- knots
“ The duty is laid upon us to see that the pay our workmen receive ritory of which it is to be composed. Is s note about two Inches deep, and
this is filled with tallow, so that the
"hould not merely In- adequate f o r their necessities, hut should In
gravel or shells at the bottom will ad
Coot
Bay
on
Boom.
sufficient to attract the intelligence and skill o f that high-grade of
here to It. and the nature of the bed
Marshfield -Improvements in con
American citizen, the
who has made us an industrial Na nection with the lumber industries of tuny he thus asoertnlnexl When the
lead 1» thrown overboard the water's
tion; that the wages should not merely pay for the required service, Coos county which have been made depth Is noted on the line, and this and
recently
and
which
are
now
being
hut should carry with them a stimulus to ingenuity and intelligent
the adherence to the tallow when com-
activity. F. »'. Caldwell, retiring President National Metal Trades started will aggregate In expenditure pared with the description given on
approximately $ 1 , 000.1
Never he 'he chart will give the ship's position
Association.
fore In the history of the locality has w" n l01«“™ 61* «ccurscy
Men with Elk Meat Caught.
I ’endleton.— Tom W'illaby and Elmer
Necliols were placed under arrest by
Deputy Game Warden Averill near
Hldeawuy Springs on I lie charge of
killing elk. These are the first arrests
for this offense ever made In Cmntilla
county. The men were taken by sur
prise by the deputy and in their pos
session was found the elk skin and
some elk meat.
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