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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1912)
? THE TIMES THE TIMES Published every Saturday by TH E T IM E S COM PANY, Incorporated at 212 F irst Street, Portland, Oregon. Phone*: •: ____ B Have You Ever i; Delicate Senaitive Haire That F.«cord ' beast. Consider the lion stealing through the the Slightest Touch. Main 5037; A-2686. SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance. A D V E R TIS IN G RATES made known upon application. Entered in PostofHce at Portland, Oregon, a* aecond-cla*» matter. Saturday, September 14, 1912 MISSIONARY WORK. W hy arc newspapers published? For some papers this would he a hard question to answer. For this paper it is simple. This paper is published to awaken, to as great an extent as possible, the public conscience to certain frauds that are foisted upon a gullible public from time to time. There is no malice in this but. merely is it the belief of the people behind it that the truth ought to lie pointed out with greater simplicity than it is sometimes set forth elsewhere. Perhaps this aim is not always achieved, but effort is made to accomplish it. For instance, in the matter of the proposed commission form of government for the city of Portland, this paper thinks that a great ileal of truth should be brought to light that is now being cleverly hidden or ignored. This paper believes that the adoption of this sys tem of local rule would be an evil of considerable magnitude. This paper believes that as long as the people of Oregon, as a whole, be lieve in the most democratic form of government possible, that it would be a grave mistake to turn the running of the city of Portland over to a clique of men who would have the maximum of power and | the minimum of direct responsibility to the voters and taxpayers. Some of Portland’s departments are at present operated by com missions. Three men control, for instance, the police department. That is to say. they are supposed to control it. As a matter of fact, they sit bac k and listlessly permit one man to control it. When they do take action, they seem to have the misfortune of doing the wrong things. A majority of two out of this trio can mismanage the police department to such an exetent that Commissioner Fitzgerald is pow erless to interfere. Suppose a commission o f such men were vested with supreme control of Portland’s welfare. Is there any reason to believe that they would manage the city's affairs as a whole any more creditably than the affairs of the police department have been managed? Is there any guarantee that there would not be similar unpleasantness over such affairs as the Bailey tangle? Right now bobs up the knowing citizen and shouts that along with the commission form o f government the people would have the recall, and that commissioners who did not do what they should would be removed. True. Portland citizens have the recall at present, too. but it has not been used to painful excess as yet. nor has it been used to particular advantage. And right near home thave been examples o f this recall st unt. Tacoma adopted the commission form of government. Tacoma lias been recalling her mayors and commissioners ever since. Some of the .... alls have so tangled up the official signatures upon Tacoma bonds that there has been a hesitancy in financial circles about ac cepting city paper. Spokane adopted the commission form of gov ernment. and attempts to recall some of the men who at once built up an adamantine political machine have failed. Out here in the wild and enthusiastic West a great many people refer to this proposed scheme as the lies Moines plan. Des Moines list'd to be promt of the notoriety thus gained. The commercial club of that city used to emblazon upon its stationery, “ Des Moines orig inated the commission form of government.” However, even a com mercial club may have sense, and now. after some years of experience with 11it‘ plan, Des Moines no longer boasts of the fact that she ever perpetrated such a thing. Des .Moines has learned something, may hap; and tin1 lesson might be taken to heart in Portland. zle often project to Bucb a distance , (hat from point to point th e; Indicate ' the exact width o f the body of the FELINE WHISKERS. We are apt to think that the cat's* Jungle at night In search o f prey, when ability to see in the dark is due entire I the least stir o f « «* 1 « Rives alarm. £ ly to its eyes, but competent authority The lion’s whiskers indicate, through assures us that the feline’« power I d the nicest nerves, any object that may tills respect is clue almost as much to be in his path. A touch stops him short before pushing through some close Its "whiskers.” These delicate hairs that project thicket where the rustling leaves and from the muzzle ot the cat family are boughs would betray his presence. wonderful mechanisms. Each one Wherever his head may be thrust with grows from a follicle, or gland, nerved out a warning from the vibrissae there to the utmost sensibility. Its slightest his body may pass noiselessly. It is the aid given him by his whiskers, in con- contact with any obstacle Is Instantly altl Clven nim Dls v felt by the animal, though the hair Junction with the soft cushions o f his Itself may be tough and insensible *eeL that enables him to proceed as The exaggerated whiskers on the muz ; silently as a snake.—Harper’s Weekly. 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