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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JAN. 14. 1908.
PREPARATION IS SAFETY.
Among our people there are those
who demand to know why we want a
big Navy. "Why," the New York
Evening Post exclaims, "should the
press of the country be carried off its
feet by the big-Navy mania?" "It Is
easy," continues that estimable news
paper, "to write solemn editorial non
sense about the necessity of our be
ing armed to the teeth, and having
' two fleets, one on the East coast and
one on the West. The President's
outbursts on this as on other subjects
Invariably bring out a newspaper
chorus of 'that's so.' " We have,
however, protests and exclamations
against It. But not from the active
national and militant spirit of the
country. Such expressions come from
those who are not resolute In any
thing but mere vituperation. They
never would have pushed the settle
ment of the West. They never would
have carried the flag of the United
States across the continent. They
never would have planted the United
States on the Pacific. They never
would have acquired for the United
States the Hawaiian and Philippine
Islands. Were it left to them they
never would have pushed across the
Atlantic, as their ancestors did. That
would be for them too strenuous; and
moreover they would have told you
that the right of the natives, to keep
the Western Hemisphere In primitive
savagery must be respected. Of
course we are talking only of a small
number of the people of our Eastern
States. The great majority have not
been emasculated by ease and Indo
lence and cheap transcendental non
sense. They have virile power. The
United States therefore ,1s still a Na
tion, doing business in the world.
Why rail against armaments? The
nation that is not armed Is nothing.
Jefferson didn't like armaments, on
sea or land. During the term of the
Presidency that next followed his own
the capital of the United States was
taken and destroyed by an enemy.
Greece disputed on Ideal theories of
politics and art and on the dignity of
man, and fell before the Macedonian
phalanx. Rome settled down into ig
noble ease and peaceful sloth and was"
overrun by the multitudes that came
from beyond the Danube and the
Alps. England, relying too much on
her insular position, fell before Will
iam the Conqueror. Italy, not united
for fight, was the prey of various ene
mies through all the Middle Ages, and
indeed down to our own times. Ger
many, during many centuries, till she
learned the necessity of combination
and armament, was stripped first by
one enemy and then by another. Her
condition during the Thirty Years'
War was pitiable beyond anything in
history; and It was followed by the
conquests of Louis XIV and of Napo
leon. Germany now Is united ad
armed. Her experience has been
enough for her.
There was some excuse for the
United States, while in an Isolated
position, to care little about arma
ments though the neglect at one
time and another has cost us dear.
In 114 we were unable to resist 2500
British troops, who landed In the
Chesapeake and took our National
capital. In 1S61 we had no forces
with which to resist the most gigantic
rebellion of modern times. In 1S98
we were forced by events Into a war
with Spain, for which we had no
preparation; and had Spain not been
a feeble and decadent power, actually
moribund, we should have been sore
ly, pressed, shut out from the seas,
. cooped up at home, and subjected to
.bombardment and tribute on all our
roasts. '
Now It is the lesson, of all hlstorV
for thousands of years that wars will
come. And In all times the lesson is
that the surest way to avoid wars is
to- be prepared for them. What we
spend on our fleet Is a bagatelle to the
losses we should suffer, without them.
in, a single year pf war with any coun
try that had power at sea. . We. shall
not be aggressive, but we do " want
and must have means of defense. By
having them we shall probably avoid
the necessity of using them.
,. Undoubtedly, therefore, wise policy
will require us to maintain a fleet on
both oceans. t Yet we are not In a
foolish and barbaric contest with the
world for greatest show of power.
Nor is Germany, when she maintains
her armaments and increases them.
Nor Is England when she resolves to
keep her navy up to a point of effi
ciency and strength equal to any two
other powers. We are living in a
world that we must meet and deal
with as we find It; not in any ideal or
ecstatic existence, as if Innocence
and argument without " force to sup
port them could prevail. -
It is useless also to insist that since
we never had any considerable Navy
we shouldn't have such Navy now
and hereafter. Our position in the
world of affairs has become very dif
ferent. But there are those in our
Eastern cities to whom there areno
Pacific States and no. Pacific Ocean,
and who, even If a foreign force were
again to land on their own shores and
march on Washington, would, rather
than resort to villainous gunpowder,
submit the defense to their own
prayers addressed to the enemy, and
to the dispensations of Divine Provi
dence. But this "cheap defense of
nations" an enemy would laugh at;
and fortunately the country will not
depend on it, but will Increase Its arm
aments and train Its men for a serv
ice which Is the less likely to be re
quired the better we are prepared
for It.
STILL HARPING ON SILVER.
Mr. Bryan, In a speech at Nashville
on Wednesday, "contrasted the ridi
cule heaped on his advocacy of free
coinage of the silver dollar with the
anxiety with which capitalists had
clutched recently at clearing-house
certificates." That Mr. Bryan should
have done this is not surprising at all.
, It is not in the least surprising, be
cause It Is only one more proof that
Mr. Bryan Is still In total Ignorance
about money and the money stand
ard. Even yet he doesn't know that
what beat him for the Presidency In
1896 and again In 1900 was the deter
mination of the people to maintain
the gold standard, which would have
been lost by free and unlimited coin
age of silver, of which he was the
champion.
Had the country then voted for sil
ver and gone to the stiver basis, there
would have arisen, and probably soon
er than now, a demand for clearing
house certificates; but those certifi
cates would have been issued on a sil
ver basis, not on a gold basis, and re
deemable In silver, not In gold.
The peerless and perennial candi
date still thinks of "slxteen-to-one"
as a divinely revealed ratio, whereon
silver and gold would circulate to
gether and supplement each other in
exchange values; yet the silver that
makes the dollar is now worth less
than 43 cents. It had been hoped
that by this time Mr. Bryan might
have been cured of this extraordinary
delusion; for many have thought It a
possibility that he might yet be elect
ed to the Presidency. Such unthink
able folly 'at the head of the Govern
ment of the United States! But it
will surely defeat him, if his talk
should renew it as an Issue, or give it
any Importance again. ,
HELP FOR THE NEGROES.
A few days ago there was a great
meeting in Carnegie-Hall, New York,
to raise money for Booker Washing
ton's school at Tuskegee. The re
sources of the school have been
pinched by the hard times and It has
become necessary to raise an emer
gency fund of (700,000 before the end
of the academic year. At the meet
ing Governor Hughes was present as
well as Mr. Washington and Henry
Watterson, of Kentucky. All these
eminent personages made speeches
and all the speeches were of the same
tenor. Not a note was uttered except
in that broad, humanitarian, enlight
ened spirit which makes for advance
ment and good will. Mr. Watterson
above all the other speakers was em
phatic In testifying to the progress of
the negroes since they have been free.
'I stand here tonight," said he, "to de
clare that the world has never wit
nessed such progress from darkness
to light as that which we see in those
districts of the South where the negro
has had a decent opportunity for self-
improvement."
Mr. Watterson is a Southerner of
the Southerners. He fought in the
Confederate army and looks upon so
cial equality between whites and ne
groes as an abomination;' but he has
the fairness to admit facts which
many persons of extreme prejudice
deny. He perceives the danger of
withholding education from the ne
groes and he has sense enough to let
the social equality bugaboo take care
of Itself. It Is encouraging to believe
that Henry Watterson represents" a
large and increasing class of South
ern whites who are willing to give the
negroes a fair chance in the world.
His spirit Is more statesmanlike as
well as more Christian than that of
those short-sighted persons who wish
to hold the blacks in Ignorance and
compel them forever to be hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the
whites. It Is the extremity of folly
to draw a priori conclusions about
what the colored race can or cannot
do in the years to come. Some per
sons argue from the size and shape
of their brains that they are necessar
ily Inferior. Others conclude that
they never will do much, because they
never have. But all such talk is non
sense. No way has yet been found
to analyze a brain and estimate its
potential energy; while the most fu
tile of all logic Is that which attempts
to predict the future of a race from
Its past. Suppose, it had been tried
with the Japanese fifty years ago.
The problem of the Ignorant negro,
stripped of the factitious difficulties
which race prejudice has swathed
about it, differs not at all from the
problem of the Ignorant white man.
If we want to make him Industrious
we must begin by teaching htm how
to do something that will give htm
earning power. To preach industry
to a man who does not know how to
do anything is like singing to the
deaf. The power to earn stimulates
the - desire to earn. ' As Governor
Hughes puts It, "The best stimulus to
Industry is the power to do some
thing well." He might have added
conversely that the inabiilty to do
work that will bring in money is the
worst foe to Industry. The reasons
which make it Imperative to train the
colored race In arts and crafts ap
ply just as strongly, to the whites.
Booker -Washington's call for leaders
who will induct his people into man
ual . industry, teach . them domestic
economy and the science of agricul
ture. Indicates that he has penetrated
to the root of the social problem
which all peoples must solve.
Governor Hughes well said at Car
negie Hall that "this country is not a
mere wealth-producing machine. It
is a country of men with the aspira
tions and dignity' of manhood." But
before the individual can be a man
with the aspirations and dignity of
manhood he must first be economic
ally Independent, and that he never
can be so long as he remains an un
skilled laborer. The. beginning of
manhood is the mastery of some craft
that gives the individual assured
earning power. Wlthput such power
it is" Idle to talk to him about culture
or manhood or dignity; he must re
main in all essentials the creature of
master. He is at the mercy of
chance and circumstance. The hu
man brain has developed through the
craft of the human hand. All the
other sense organs are passive. The
hand alone reacts upon the world.
It Is emphatically the mechanical or
gan of the brain.
OFF WITH THE OLD, ON WITH THE
NEW.
The plan for renewing the old ap
ple orchards of the Willamette Valley
as outlined by Millard Lownsdale In a
recent lecture at Corvallls Is the first
practical suggestion that has been
made toward the solution of a very
old problem a problem that "has
vexed fruit enthusiasts for many
years.
The plan is bold and yet alluring.
It is proposed to cut off the tops of
these trees and top-graft with that
most toothsome of all apples, the Yel
low Newtown. State Boards of Hor
ticulture and horticultural societies
have long wrestled with this old or
chard proposition along coercive
lines, . but the grizzled old trees still
flaunt their tangled heads high in the
air. It Is now proposed to appeal di
rectly to the commercial instincts of
the farmer-owners. This is a practi
cal and common-sense method of pro
cedure, and merits complete success.
But beyond all utilitarian or eco
nomic reasons for the adoption of
this plan are considerations of pride
and of pleasure in enhancing the nat
ural beauty of the Valley's landscapes.
By the removal of these unsightly
apple forests tangPbs wherein the
wild hawks nest and all creeping
things pasture in undisturbed luxury,
we are promised the miracle of a new
creation, with beauty reigning on
every hand. Perhaps we should not
then hesitate to call the attention of
the stranger in our midst to the con
dition of the apple industry in our
Valley. By ail means let us have the
experiment of regeneration.
Yet It requires a measure of cour
age to slash these old trees that have
defied all attacks- for nearly half a
century forests . that have been
through the windy wars of a geir-
eratlon where roWns taught their
nestlings the Joys of fat and Juicy larvae,-
where night-flying moths have
drowsed away their ephemeral days
secure from all destructive agencies,
where many a truant has hidden in
the days of youth and browsed among
the "ereasy pippins" with a Joy that
staled not, though many frosts after
ward showed their - valiance In his
luxuriant hair.
Bold Indeed Is the man who would
propose to cut down these old friends
that In our childhood gave us the
Sweet Bough, the Red Astrachan, the
Red June, the Early Harvest and per
haps a hundred other varieties not
found ' in the markets of today,
These varieties, ' perchance, have
served their time and must give place
to those more In demand, but their
memories will always be hallowed.
Yet the, procession passes. Let us be
off with the old love and on with the
new.
AID FOB SEATTLE EXPOSITION.
Washington reports do not Indicate
a favorable feeling toward the Seattle
Exposition appropriation bill. Re
gardless of the merits of the project,
It will be an extremely difficult task
to secure the desired appropriation of
more than $1,000,000, and, with the
feeling displayed by some of the
members of the House committee,
Seattle might consider herself In fair
ly good luck If she shall secure half
of that amount. In all of the reports
coming from Washington constant
reference Is made to the bad effect
which the Jamestown fiasco would
have on the expected appropriation
for Seattle. If this be the Influence
working against the project, it re
flects no credit on the intelligence of
the men who are unfavorable to a
liberal appropriation.
The conditions and Influences
which made a failure of the James
town Exposition could not by a wide
stretch of the Imagination be con
strued as having anything In common
with those which will govern the
success or failure of the big show
Seattle is preparing. If the Seattle
Exposition must be haggled over and
cut down because the Jamestown Ex
position was a failure, why would it
not be fair to pass a liberal appropri
ation, and pass it quickly, because the
Portland Exposition was a grand suc
cess? Nearly every element that en
tered Into the success of the Portland
Exposition will be In evidence at Se
attle.. The exposition will be a suc
cess because the Portland Exposition
was a success. The "Western" stamp
of enterprise and self-reliance was on
the Portland project, and It will also
be on that of Seattle. It was sadly
missing from the Southern failure. If
the bill Is pruned too deeply or should
meet with defeat. It will be largely
the result of Ignorance on the, part of
the men opposing it.
The theory that the Almighty never
claimed jurisdiction west of the
Rocky Mountains is still fondly cher
ished by too many Eastern people,
and the West is not Infrequently
forced to suffer by reason of this ig
norance. It would be most regretta
ble If this feeling should prevent Se
attle from receiving the recognition
to which she is entitled. The value
of Government recognition in an en
terprise of this nature extends beyond
the mere money appropriated, for
with liberal aid from the Government
the exposlton receives a prestige of
value difficult to estimate in dollars
and cents. Were It not for this fact,
it is hardly probable that the Seattle
Exposition would be very much loser
by the failure of the Government to
assist.
Seattle is resourcetui, and from a
purely- money standpoint could make
up for any Government deficiency;
but in view of the manrier In which
other similar projects have been aid
ed, it is hardly fair that she should
be denied some aid. Some of ' the
counties in the state" have already
pledged appropriations aggregating
$250,000, and the amount pledged by
Seattle, the State of Washington and
other states reaches a sum by com
parison with which the amount asked
from the Government is quite mod
est. Because one mismanaged expo
sition was permitted to waste a vast
sum of Government money is not a
sound reason why an enterprise
whose success is a certainty should
be denied a much smaller amount.
An effort Is making to unite In a
single body several small denomina
tions of Protestant Christians, of
which the United Brethren are per
haps most numerous. The other
bodies bear the names of Evangeli
cal Association, United Evangelical
and Methodist Protestant. All are
represented in -the Pacific Northwest;
but in many places only by isolated
members. Substantially these denom
inations all agree, and it is believed
that their work could be made much
more effective through united action.
In the olden time in Oregon the
United Brethren were pioneer work
ers in the religious' Held, and -ever
since have had a growing organiza
tion here though of growth less
rapid than several others. This
church has a theological school and
large publishing-house -at Dayton, O.,
and about ten colleges in different
states. Union of similar bodies with
it, if such union can be brought about,
will make an organization much
stronger for efficient work. This pro
posed union is another sign of the
tendency of the times towards con
solidation, or co-operation, in relig
ious and ecclesiastical work, as well
as in secular business. All Presby
terians now are virtually united. The
separation of the people into sects.
which was a consequence of early
conditions, turns to union under the
quick movement and rapid Inter
course of the present time. In this
field also the railroad, the telegraph,
the newspaper and the mails are
forces that work powerfully for con
centration. .
The citizens of Astoria are to be
congratulated on their action in or
ganizing the Port of Astoria. Thla Is
a move in the right direction, and, if
the work accomplished is as satisfac
tory proportionately as that which is
to the credit of the Port of Portland,
much good will result. There has
never been the slightest disposition on
the part of Portland to Interfere In
any manner with Astoria s projects
for improving her harbor or the chan
nel to the Sea. There are certain In
terests between Portland and the sea
in which Astoria -has a mutual Inter
est with Portland, and It was for this
reason that we have at times invited
the assistance of our Clatsop County
friends. The fact that our invitations
were declined without thanks has, of
course, failed to cause a stoppage of
our efforts to make needed improve
ments in river and bar channels, and
tug and pilot service. Now that As
toria has at last grasped the meaning
of river and harbor improvement, she
will soon learn that there is more
than a modicum of truth in the old
saying that God helps those who help
themselves. . '
One "Charles Brown, foreman for
Rothschild & Jones, stevedores," has
been loading a ship at Portland, and
on his return to Puget Sound tells the
Tacoma Ledger that complaints of
service on the Columbia bar are not
overdrawn, and that "he does not
"wonder the captains hate to take a
ship there." It will , probably interest
Mr. Brown to know that there are
great many captains who do not "hate
to take a ship there." As a matter of
fact, the number . who are taking
ships to the Columbia has Increased
to such an extent that Messrs. Roths
child & Jones have established an of
fice in this city because stevedoring
work Is more plentiful at Portland
than on Puget Sound. If Portland Is
such a distressingly bad port. It seems
a trifle strange that Mr. Brown's firm
would find any reason for establish
ing themselves In business here, but,
having done so, .the policy of "knock
ing" the port Is questionable.
Among the first of those. who are
making announcements of their can
didacy for nomination at the primary
I election Is Joseph Gaston. He offers
himself for the position of Railroad
Commissioner. Nobody . Is better
known throughout Oregon than Mr.
Gaston. He never has been an office
seeker nor anybody's hired man
The work he has done in and for Ore
gon and the work has been various
and long continued has been opon
his own Initiative. - He has the ex
perience, the character and the inde
pendence of all special interests to
qualify him for the place for which
he now offers himself. His announce
ment appears today. .
"If the Legislature is to elect the
Senators, why should It not also elect
the Congressmen?" For election of
Senators in Congress, see article I,
section 3, Constitution of the United
States. For election of Representa
tives in Congress, see article I, sec
tion- 2, 'Constitution of the United
States.
It is pleasing to note that from the
press of this progressive state there is
practically a universal call for the
referendum, on selection of United
States ' District Attorney for Oregon.
To Mr. Schuebel it should be specially
pleasing, since he lives right In the
referendum shop. Give the people
chance. - .
If residents of every section In
Portland and adjacent suburbs can
arrange to return home as they leave
home in squads instead of battalions
'the no-seat-no-fare problem may
be solved. -
Ninety-eight Republican Congress
men favor Taft's candidacy. It is
pertinent to Inquire how many of
them will be delegates to the Chicago
convention, where preferences count.
Latest figures on the Panama Ca
nal put the cost at $300,000,000 In
stead 'of $135,000,000, as first estl
mated. The country is not only abje
but willing to pay the difference.
Says the Richmond (Va.) Post-Dis
patch: "We bfein to think that big
stick Is hollow inside." ' Neither John
D. Rockefeller nor Edward H. Harri-
man shares that opinion.
RECORD OF "FIGHTING BOB" EVANS I
The ; pilot of One Hundred Mllllona'
Worth of Uncle Sam's Ships.
Letter in New York Evening Post.
In a recent, issue I saw a letter pub
lished from Park Benjamin, in which that
gentleman severely censures Rear-Admiral
Evans, U. S. N. It would seem from
the wording of Mr. Benjamin's letter that
he Is a trifle undecided upon whom to
charge the heinous crime of having one
familiar with those waters assist In pilot
ing a hundred millions' worth of the Gov
ernment's property through the Straits of
Macallan. Can it be possible that this
good-for-nothing and timid Admiral is
the same Evans
1. Who, as a boy, was crippled for life
while In the front of the "forlorn hope"
at Fort Fisher?
2. Who was promoted SO files for gal
lantry In that action, and contrary to all
precedent, retained on the active list?
3. who in the old navy was known as
one of the most daring and skillful sail
ors, and whose feats of navigation were
the talk of many a wardroom?
4. who took the Yorktown through the
Magellan Straits and up through the un
chartered Smythe's Channel (without a
pilot) ?
5. Who with a small gunboat, blurred
the Chileans to a standstill and made
them respect our flag, when the aster-
wards "newspaper hero of Santiago ruKi
allowed his men to be murdered and the
flag Insulted?
. Who. as captain of the New York and
Indiana made each ship In turn the pride
of the Navy? ,
7. who, though badly Injured ty Ine
fall of a hatch cover, stuck to his com
mand In the Iowa, and got his ship closer
to the enemy than any other captain at
Santiago?
8. Who. as Oommander-m-cnler or tne
Asiatic station, (brought that fleet to such
stage of excellence that its gunners
held the naval trophies several times in
succession?
9. Who made the fast run from Hong
kong to Sandy Hook in the battleship
Kentucky? .
10. Who, though entitled to shore duty.
was selected to command our main fleet
because he was the best man for the job?
11. Who is regarded by all real sailors
in every navy as the peer of any fleet
commander afloat today?
12. And who, December 1 last, led out
of Hampton Roads for the Pacific a fleet
of 16 fine ships, which were the pride and
joy of every American who saw them? -
As to pilots, the trans-Atlantic skippers.
who have been in and out of New York
harbor hundreds of times, are doubtless
overwhelmed with shame every time they
take on a .Sandy Hook pilot. If not,
they should be. '
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ENLIGHTENED FORESTRY POLICY
Professor Lake's Notice of Meeting ef
State Forestry Association.
CORVALLIS. Or.. Jan. 22. (To the
Editor.) The Oregon Forestry Associa
tion opens its public campaign for an en
lightened state forestry policy In Port
land February 14. This Is the Iirst or a
series of meetings that the association
DroDoses to hold for the purpose of dis
cussing the various phases of forestry as
related td the welfare, both present and
future, of our great commonwealth.
There are several problems upon which
legislation must soon be enacted. That
this legislation may be Just and fair to
all concerned, It has been deemed best
to hold a series of public meetings so
that all phases of the subject may be
presented and given due consideration.
At this time the association especially
invites land owners, lumbermen and mill
men, statesmen and public-spirited cltl
zens to be present and hear H. E. Lan
gllle discuss the topic. "The Taxation of
Cut-Over and Burned-Over Land." This
Is a live topic, and becoming more so
every day. It is of great moment to our
-future forest industry and it behooves
every patriotic citizen to aid in settling it
right, at an early date.
The exact place of meeting will be an
nounced In the Portland newspapers
about February 13. The association will
be pleased to consider communications
upon this topic from those who may not
be able to attend the meeting. The suc
cess of the new forest law, which was In
ltiated by this association, Is such as to
encourage the members in the hope that
they may be instrumental In placing upon
the statute books other acts wnicn may
further aid in developing a safe and sane
forest policy for our state, and in this
work It most cordially welcomes the co
operation of all good citizens.
They Arc Honest Now.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 22a (To the
Editor.) I notice, in an article in
your issue of January 17th, under the
heading "Bis Gain by City Banks,"
that you mention that in regard to the
bank clearings of Seattle and Los
Angeles: "It has been repeatedly ex
plained that this Is accounted for by
the methods of padding balances re
sorted to in these cities."
As chairman of the clearing-house
committee I feel that I ought to be
informed as to the particulars. The
clearings of Seattle are settled every
day in gold, and if there Is anything
contained in them In the nature of
padding. I should be informed. I can
imagine no method by which such
practice could be employed and should
be greatly obliged for enlightenment
on the subject. is. w. ANDREWS,
Chairman Seattle Clearing-House Com
mittee.
The Oregonlan acknowledges Its
error. The Seattle banks have been
paying their balances in cash for
whole year, after years of dishonest
padding. The Oregonlan should never
have overlooked the important fact
that the Seattle bankers are honest
now and have been for an entire
twelve months.
- Senator Jeff Davis Gets n Shock.
Washington (D. C.) Stories in New York
1 Times.
Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, arrived
in Washington, D. C., a great admirer of
President Roosevelt. He hastened to the
White House, where he was warmly wel
comed, but he has not been there since.
It Is now known why he stays away.
On that visit Roosevelt gripped the Sena
tor's hand and asked:
"Mighty glad to see you, Senator, and
how are all the boys at home?"
"They are all right," said Davis, "and
most of them would like to see you con
tinued as President for another four
years. Don't you think you will see your
way clear to run again?"
"Well, I hardly think so," replied the
President, "but I'll tell you right now, if
I thought I could carry North Carolina
I certainly would be a candidate again.
I would like to break into the 'Solid
South."
"I think you might get some state In
the South. A great many of them are
for you. But why do you specify North
Carolina? Wouldn't my state dor'
For a moment the President looked non
plussed: then he smiled as he admitted:
"By George! Senator. Do you know
I took you for Overman of North Caro
lina." It Is Solved.
The 'Dalles Optimist.
The Oregonian asks:- "The combined
ages of Mary and Ann are 44 years. Mary
is twice as old as Ann was when Mary
was one-half as old as Ann will be when
Ann is three times as old as Mary was
when Mary was three times as old as
Ann. How old is Mary?" We have
worked the problem according to State
ment No. 1 and find that xquals y
minus 17 plus Mrs. voodcock: therefore
if Mary lives until half past 11 o'clock
next Jaunary she will be qualified to
vote at the Spring election In 1909. or
thereabouts. If we had the size of Ann's
feet we could give the answer to a
minute.
EFFICIENT SERVICE ITS SLOGAN.
New Hake-ni of the State Editorial
Association of Oregon.
PORTLAND. Jan. 23. (To the Editor.)
The new constitution and bylaws of the
State Editorial Association of Oregon rep
resents the work of a committee, con
sisting of J. S. Delllnger, Charles H.
Fisher. J. C Hayter, B. E. Kennedy and
Henry Waldo Coe, and was unanimously
adopted by the late meeting. It Is In line
with the Ideas of the late executive com
mittee Messrs. Woodard, Bath and Coe,
who Mor some months had the matter
under discussion, seeking to work out a
plan by which the local press might
come Into a more efficient form for serv
ice In the interest of the public and its
own constituent members. The fact that
It was adopted without a dissenting vote,
demonstrates the feeling that existed that
a change was necessary, and that this.
as stated by the committee, might be
taken as a beginning, at least. In the
right direction.
The name was changed, bringing the so
ciety to a higher plane of union, based
upon editorial relations first, rather than
the purely business side of the profession,
although business affairs are also to
have a more systematic attention than
formerly.
The association is to be managed by
an executive committee, consisting of a
president, vice-president, recording-sec
retary, treasurer, corresponding-secretary
and three trustees. A great deal of work
as to the assembling of the state asso
ciations is to be carried out along the
lines adopted by Dr. Coe for the late
meeting, which proved so successful,
under the special guidance of the corresponding-secretary.
The officers are to be elected annually.
except the trustees who are to serve for
three years, one retiring annually.
There are many special features m tne
constitution which are new. One pro
vides for the organization of county or
district associations. Where three papers
exist in a county, a local county organi
zation is advised, although with five or
less papers In a county the papers of
the county may join with those of an
other county under the name of the other
county, for temporary purposes, and two
counties ' may Join In a Joint county
association, or a district association may
be made up of two or more counties.
County and district associations are en
titled to elect one member each to the
house of newspaper representatives. Thla
house shall meet for the purpose of dis
cussing general topics of interest before
the opening of the regular state asso
ciation, and shall make recommendations
to the general body fi which each rep
resentative shall have a vote in addition
to his vote for his own paper.
This house representing the newspapers
of the state by direct vote In their own
counties, is also to act as the nominat
ing committee, although the state asso
ciation shall not be obliged to follow such
suggestion and no member is barred from
making nominations. The complaint that
the association has been controlled by a
coterie of persons In their own Interest,
has seriously worked against the great
est usefulness of the association, and It
Is believed that, by this arrangement, this
objection will now pass away. The house
of newspaper representatives are directed
to select "persons who will in their be
lief truly represent the highest news
paper standing In the association, and be
thoroughly qualified for the important
duties and honors of their respective
positions."
A uniform constitution Is provided for
local societies, and the president is
directed to crowd organization of the
county societies, and he is given authority
to select local organizers therein. A copy
of the- constitution will be sent to all
members of the association, as soon as
printed. AH former members remain In
good standing in the reorganized bodv
Debt for two year's dues forfeits mem
bership.
Membership is held by the periodical.
The periodical has but one vote In the
meetings but all editors and owners are
admitted to the- meetings. Change of
owners does not drop the paper, but new
owners and new editors tnust apply to the
executive committee for purposes of being
re-listed, which committee has the power,
subject to appeal to the general as
sociation, to refuse membership or to
expel for unjournallstic or other mis
behavior.
County associations shall meet four
times yearly. The state rate committee
shall adopt a schedule of rates which
shall be merely advisory. The counties,
shall revise these rates as deemed proper
and use them as a general standard to
work from, also advisory.
An important feature in the reorganiza
tion is the legislative authority of the
new house f newspaper representatives
who with the executive commltte shall
meet at some time before or during the
session of the State Legislature for the
purpose of formulating measures for the
public good in which the newspapers are
specially Interested. Certain legislative
members in the past having shown special
viciousness toward the newspaper fra
ternity, the house of newspaper represen
tatives is instructed to hereafter make up
a, list of any such and to send the same
to all newspapers of the state.
The local societies shall become mem
bers of the state association as soon as
the constitution provided shall bo adopted
and their application approved by the
president or executive committee.
Membership applications In the local so
cieties may be made through the state
association or through the local society.
The right of appeal to the state society
is provided. A. B. C.
INCREASED FEDERAL PENSIONS,
Rev. C. E. CHne Points Ont That These
Are Not AH Original Grants.
PORTLAND, Jan. 23. (To the Editor.)
I notice lately an unusual number of
Federal pensions being granted 94 report
ed in yesterday's Oregonian, aggregating
$1248 per month. Batches similar to this
have been coming quick and fast, and
which received recently an oblique crlti
clam by The Oregonian.
These are not, as might be supposed
original grants of pensions, but an in
crease of $2 to $4 per month, some a little
more possibly, to the oldest men under
the age ruling of President Roosevelt
some two years ago, and which are now
for the first time being adjusted by the
pension office. These pensions have not
been procured by Congressman Hawley,
or any one else, out are given on the sim
ple fact of age, a record of which the
department has of every man.
A few of the recent grants, are origi
nal, however, to a man here and there
who has not been getting a pension, and
Is now placed on the role by reason of his
having reached the age of 62, which en
titles him to $12. A few are for the
minor children of some silly veteran.
who has married a young and bigger fool
than himself, which Is saying a good deal.
C. E. CLINE.
All Women Like Cats, Says Judge.
Cleveland Dispatch in New York World.
Clearing his courtroom of 200 women as
sembled to listen to testimony anent grill
room dinners and dancing on a table.
brought out In the divorce suit of Horace
Mitchell against Helen Mitchell, Judge
H. Keeier declared: "All women are cats.
They will turn suddenly on their best
friends and spit and claw and scratch
them. Most of the women I ordered from
the room came to hear testimony against
Mrs. Mitcneii. a woman is peculiar.
There are few real friendships among
women because they always are waiting
for a chance to criticise their acquaint
ances. A divorce trial is always attrac
tive to women. They come to hear of
grillroom escapades, because they proba
bly never have been In one. They come
to satiate their curiosity about things
iney poimng or.
BY .LILIAN TINGLE.
When you are 17 or IS and just "out."
after a rather secluded schoolroom life,
you are likely to care more about what
people think of you than you do when
you have seen more of the world, and
you will treasure a compliment as if it
were pure gold, instead of "sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal."
This must be my excuse for offering
for your consideration a tarnished com
pliment received long ago, but still un-
forgotten. It was the day after a "tea"
that the daughter of my hostess greeted
me as I suppose girls have greeted
each other ever since the days of Cain
and Abel's sisters with a delighted giggle
and the question: "What do you think I
heard about you?" "What will you give
me for a compliment?" Well, of course.
I was ready to give her anything, even
to the half of my Kingdom: so eventually
she told me that Mrs. So-and-So had told
her mother I was one of the most inter
esting and entertaining young girls she
had ever mu a really brilliant talker,
one .with whom it was a positive pleasure
to converse.
Naturally I felt elated for the moment.
until the bubble of my vanity collapsed
with the painfully clear recolfection
that Mrs. So-and-So was the ponderous
andemphatic lady, who, having me cor
nered, without the faintest possibility of
escape, had held forth "like the un
wearied rook" for a full half hour on
the deeds and misdeeds of her maids
past, preseht and future. My only sham
In the conversation had been a polite
Interjection when she paused for breath
Really!" "How dreadful!" "What did
you do then?" "Yes, Indeed. I should
think so!" "Very trying!" and so
forth. And the worst of It was, my con
science reminded me that most of the
time I was not even listening properly.
for my mind was concentrated upon the
new and becoming style of halrdressing
worn by one of my neighbors and the
possibilities of adopting it for my own
use. I could never win such a compli
ment nowadays, for I suppose I should
be trying to squeeze In opinions and ex
periences of my own, and you know the
good old definition of a bore "One who
insists on telling his. troubles when you
are dying to telUyours."
I still remember that onj head of thla
lady's oration dealt with the Iniquity of
people who give glowing "characters" to
maids that they were anxious to get rid
of; and of the various troubles that beset
the path of the seeker and teller of the
whole truth In this connection. Picking
up a recent magazine article on the ever
green domestic service question, I see
exactly the same troubles rehearsed and
lamented, so we seem to have traveled
very little nearer to the solution of this
problem, except that there Is a whole
some Inclination to regard It from the
side of the employe rather than exclu
sively from the standpoint of the em
ployer, and eventually something may bn
done to put the matter on a proper
business basis. In the meantime things
are not helped by the woman who al
ways writes recommendations that read
like epitaphs all but the good forgotten,
or the one who, often unjustly, refuses
to give any reference at ail. Some one
told me recently of a woman of the lat
ter class who on being asked, said, "No,
Bridget, I really cannot write you a
recommendation." "Aw! nlver mind,
ma'am," said the unabashed Bridget.
"Oi'll write ut fur ye, and ye can make
yer mark to ut."
Some years ago there was a rather
amuslr lawsuit In Paris, resulting In
the payment of a fine by a certain witty
Countess, who had given the following
testimonial to her cook, one less ac
complished than "Bridget," and quite
unable to read writing. For the sake of
her gourmet of a husband, the Countess
endured for some years this cook's in so- .
lence and dishonesty; but one day, in a
fit of temper, the latter walked off and
engaged herself with another lady, whose
husband was a great admirer of the good
things of the table. Then she returned
to ' the Countess, "Madame," said sh,
"you will give me a character, if you
please, not for my cooking that is well
known but for ho esty and the rest of
it." This is what she received and pre
sented to her new employer:
"I, Comtesse de F , hereby certify
that for three years I have been at the
service of Mademoiselle Louise Girot,
and done my very best to please her in
all things and to show her my devoted
submission. I' was often distressed at
seeing that her temper was somewhat
difficult to put up with, though I tried .
hard to live on good terms with her on
account of the excellence of her sauces,
of which M. le' Comte was so fond, that
I should have liked to remain at Made
moiselle Louise's Service much longer.
My purse, as well as my patience, hav
ing been constantly dealt with by Made
moiselle Louise with unlimited liberty, I
cannot say much about her honesty."
"Dear Charles Lamb" (to quote
Wendy's sampler in "Peter Pan") was
not exempt from servant difficulties any
more than less lovable mortals, as a
characteristic letter of his, unpublished
until a yea or two ago, will testify.
"Dear Mrs. H , Sally, who brings this
with herself back has given every pos
sible satisfaction in doing her work, etc..
but the fact is that the poor girl Is
opprest with a ladylike melancholy and
cannot bear to be so much alone as she
necessarily must be in our kitchen,
which, to say the truth, is damn'd soli
tary, where she can see nothing,
and converse with nothing, and not
even look out of the window. The con
sequence is she has been caught shed
ding tears all day long, and her own
comfort has made It indispensable to
send her home. 'Your cheerful, noisy
children-crowded house has made har
feel the change so much the more.
"Our late servant always complained
of the want of children, which she had
been used to in her last place. One man's
meat is another man's poison, as they
say. However, we are eternally obliged
to 1 you as much as if Sally could have
stayed. We have got an old woman
coming who is too stupid to know when
she is alone and when she is not. Yours
truly, C. Lamb, for self and sister."
Triangular Troubles.
Roseburg Review.
Two married women engaged in a fistio
altercation for the delectation of a small
sized crowd near the Southern Pacific
freight depot Friday evening. The hus
band of one of the. combatants IS said to
have been the cause in having paid too
much attention to the other woman. The
dove of peace, however, is said to reign
today over both households.