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Saturday, August 24, 1912
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STO PPING LEAKS.
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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
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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
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well to investigate this matter, and evolve some system of co
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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
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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.
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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
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Portland needs more than a municipal steamship line to recover her
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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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