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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1912)
THE TIMES THE TIMES Published every Saturday by THE T IM E S C OM PANY, Incorporated at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregou. Phone«: Main 5637; A-2686. Have You Ever j; Boy Scouts Cleaning Up The N e w Y o r k Tenements % SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance. AD VE R TIS IN G BATES made known upon application. Had a ¡> V ISIT B Y THE SEA >. Entered in Poatoflico at Portland, Oregon, aa second-class matter. or a Saturday, August 24, 1912 RUN ON THE S A N D Y SHORE STO PPING LEAKS. :• > NORTH BEACH Most of us art* familiar with the story of the Dutch hoy who tliseoverctl it leak in the dyke and stuck his thumb in it to keep the sea from breaking through and whelming the land below. The fable W A SH IN G TO N has it that the leak grew in size, and the latl was forced to thrust in his fist, then his arm, and then his body. At that point the tale Did you know you could reach this delightful care-slaying, ends, as we remember it. and nothing was said about later repairs, health-giving, fun-making or the lad’s funeral. R e m it activities in Portland’s civic life rehall this tale to mind. Portland has a habit of discovering leaks in her mental or busi ness dykes, and for a while she thrusts thumbs, arms and body into by taking the them. Then she discovers another leak, and forgets about the first and what may he buried therein. Whether or not her dykes are ever repaired with reinforced concrete is still to lie discovered. It might be o# well to investigate this matter, and evolve some system of co § Then down the ordinated effort in all lines. Such action would save a great deal of energy that is now expended in useless and ineffective spurts. For instance, some moons ago Portland discovered that Seattle S “ T. J. P O T T E R ,” “ H A S S A L O ” and “ H A R V E S T Q U E E N ’ was carrying on a trade with Alaska that this city rightfully should have. There was a tremendous to-do about it. and finally a ship was Ï TO MEGLER. marked up for this port, to establish regular sailings to tin* Pa r North. Eventually the ship did not come because Portland couldn’t Wher trains connect with boats for North Beach Points. raise 200 tons of freight. \ YOU CAN YO U SHOULD From certain quarters we are now being entertained with the Phone Ash-street Dock or City Tickt Office, Third and chimerical idea that Portland needs a municipally-owned steamship Washington streets, fo r reservation and take a line to the Orient. There having been much upheaval about this, the matter seems to he subsiding again. In time people will realize that % REST B Y THE SEA. Portland needs more than a municipal steamship line to recover her r g a a t Ä f . ’ . v g . v . v . • * o o * o * • • ’ mom • # me • •mom-. ♦ I Oriental trade, and they will realize why. Periodically Portland wakes up to some great wrong that is be ing perpetrated, and seeing the waters of destruction spurting through her dykes, goes and sticks her thumb in. Fist, arm and BAGGAGE STORED THREEfDAYS FREE body soon follow, and then the matter is lost in gurgles and coughs, and Portland pulls herself out of the hole and looks for more trouble. \nd usually she finds it. She was all wrought up over an auditorium less than a year ago; less than a month ago she was having spasms about bridges. Within recent history she had a quick succession hysteria about the need of labor in the city, and then a similar at tack about her duty to the central part of the State. Portland, it would seem, needs a balance wheel. She needs to have her commercial bodies remade, and nmde useful*to herself, in P h o to by A m e rica n P ress A ssocia tion . stead of being made mere stepping stones to society for some few I BLOW ING the example set by boy scouts In other parts o f the coun folk. Portland needs to take calm and reflective stock of her posi try. those of New York city recently enStayed In the work of X tion. she needs to realize her greatness ami her limitations, and hav "cleanup week" In the most thickly populated regions o f the metrop olis Handbills were distributed irivlng householders such advice as ing done this, needs to map out a sober and sane program. I f she “ Better to raise babies than tiles" and "D irt fattens flies and kills babies." does this, slu* will make less sport for her neighboring cities, and will But the scouts did not confine their activities to peddling advice; they delved accomplish more in the line of fulfilling her destiny. Into rubbish heaps, explored dirty back yards and cleared refuse from flre- SUMMER RESORT 1 O .-W . R . & N . I :i COLUMBIA RIVER viaSTEAMERS THE Baggage & Omnibus Transfer Co. F POOR BUSINESS. It is peculiar to what an extent one man can sometimes dominate such a body as the City Council. When the dictator is a man of strong character his leadership is not so much to be marvelled at; but when the leader is a man o f hut casual clay, seeking public lau dation rather than the good of the city, his rule is a thing both sur prising ami to he regretted. The passage by a majority vote of the Council of a number of measures designed to cmlmruss the local transportation and power company is one of those weird examples of accomplishment on tin* part of a com-ilmnn not usually considered as far-sighted or wise. Councilman Clyde, by the use of a peculiar variety of intimidation, forced the majority vote upon these measures. As a result. In* is basking in the light o f his own self-satisfaction; hut the people of Portland have not gained any remarkable victory. While this city needs better streetcar service, and should have it; and while Portland is paying more for light and power than many other cities in the Northwest, “ baiting" tin* local electrical concern is not the way to remedy matters. The Council was quite within its rights in demanding an all-night ear service; blit it is a very grave question whether any of the other measures that were passed will accomplish the reforms which they were supposed to he designed to bring about. It is poor business for a wife to “ n ag” a husband who is out of work; and it is equally poor business for a city councilman to force his fellows to “ nag” a corporation that is not giving the service to tin* city that it should. Heal reform in either ease can be more quickly accomplished by more direct methods; and Councilman Clyde's bro ther Melons should have borne this in mind and refused to he intim idated by his journalistic appeals. SLOVER. RELIGIOUS. SEES the acting chief said that lit* saw no harm in such moving pictures. In this view Captain Shiver seems PICTURES to stand almost alone upon a pin ados, for all who pass to regard ¡with wonder. Other duly re Common report lui t li it that ligious people, and quite a utitti- lior who never lot their religion Actiug Cliief of l’olice E. A bother them very much, are hold Sin ver is a religious inali, and ing aloft hands in horror because that nothiiig would he dcaror to these same pictures have been ex bis bear! tlimi to go forth over hihiteil in our fair city. They de thè lami, exhorting thè wearv clare that the influence of such movies upon the young is far and ili ut case to conte to thè from inspiring, and that unteli of pcacc that siirpassetli all uuder- the brutality of present-day life stamling, and wliich is stipposed can he traced directly to them. .Maybe pictures of prizefights to emanate largelv frani thè niourner's liencli. At various are hud for us. ami maybe repre sentations o f the manly art of times thè titillar head of thè po- sell defense Heaven save the liet* departnient has given evi- term in this east* may teach us (lonee of bis miuisterial inclina .valor anti uprightoousness. That tintisi and it is therefor all thè is a question altogether apart more stirprising to reati in nne from others. Hut there are lots of thè aftemoon papera that Capt. of people in Portland who have reati Acting Chief Slover’s re Slnver personali)’, is not oppose»! marks who art* trying vainly to to thè display o f moving pietures make them jibe with other re- of thè Johtison-Flynn prizeflght. remarks he has mado upon kin Interviewed ttpon thè subjeet. dred subjects. NO D ANGERS IN FIG H T > escapes. as the Illustration pictures them dolni;. The movement was heyun by the Brooklyn bureau of charities, which bad the co-operation, not only of the hoy scouts, but o f the New York Charity Organization society, the Babies' Welfare association, the University settlement and other organizations. 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