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PORTLAND. SATURDAY, JUNE 20. 1908.
A. WORD ABOUT MB. T AFT.
Though It is not probable that Mr.
Taft could have been nominated
without the powerful support of Mr.
Roosevelt, It Is not to be supposed
that Mr. Taft will not be wholly inde
pendent in the executive office, should
he be elected.
. He is a man of original and inde
. pendent power. His public addresses,
of which there have been many,
prove it. The quality of the man ap
pears in his decisions from the bench,
in the facility and efficiency of his
work in his present office, in his pa
pers, on affairs in the Philippines, in
Cuba, and at Panama. He is an ex
ecutive officer. He is a man of clear
and firm opinions, judicious and mod
erate, of even mental balance, neither
eccentric nor merely sentimental. He
is a good speaker, but not merely an
orator; he Is a thinker, but no theor
ist. He is a man of solid mental
character, but never will be called a
"brilliant" man which Indeed would
be foreign to the character of Presi
dent of the United States. He has no
pet phrases, to be compared with
"the crown of thorns and cross of
gold."
It was Mr. Taft who caused to be
inserted in the platform the declara
tions about the. court process known
as injunction. The statement is mod
erate and reasonable, for the legal
process must be maintained in some
form and to some extent, and this
statement Is as far as the limitation of
it ever can go, with safety to liberty,
life and property no matter, what
party is in power, or who is Presi
dent. In the campaign that is to en
sue discussion of the subject is not
likely to be kept within the rational
spirit; but after the campaign is over
it will settle nearly or about on this
basis of this 'deliverance no matter
who is President or what party is in
power.
In the Eastern States Mr. Taft will
be supported by all who prefer a mid
dle course, between the extremes of
radical innovation and of unprogres
sive conservatism. This is the right
course for the country. In his letter
of acceptance Mr. Taft will make his
position, as well as his entire person
ality, clear and plain to the people of
the United States. He will show the
country that he Is his own man, as
the phrase goes, not an echo of an
other. Tou will see Mr. Taft in his
letter of acceptance, which will ap
pear, we may suppose, toward the
end of the month of August.
A TTDBIT FROM! THE PLATFORM.
Those who say that the Republican
platform is a chain of well-oiled plat
itudes which mean nothing and were
intended to mean less than nothing
should read it over more carfcfully.
Perhaps If they do they will discover
that they are mistaken. Here is a
clause, for example, which is certain
ly not devoid of significance: "For
their well-being means the well-being
of all." The persons referred to are
the "wageworkers." We are not pre
pared to assert that the platform
makers realized the full import of
this truth when they .wrote it down.
Perhaps they had heard it some
where before and included It because
it had a pretty sound which might
possibly catch the ear and the vote of
some horny-handed son of toll. But
it is more than a pretty phrase.
Wageworkers have "well-being"
when they are able to spend a good
deal of money; that is, when their
wages are high. The more money
they spend the more products the
home market can dispose of, and the
less we need to depend upon the for
eign market for the sale of surplus
goods. The more wage-earners spend
the greater are the profits of the
manufacturer who sells them goods,
because the foreign freight is saved,
for one thing, while also prices are
higher here than they are abroad.
The producer who has to sell his
product in Europe must accept Euro
pean prices for it, whereas if the
home market will take it all he will
receive American prices for the
whole.
It follows clearly enough that the
manufacturer who tries to beat down
the wages of labor is thereby trying
to destroy his best market.. Wages
would be at the most desirable level
for both parties when the worker re
ceived so much that he could con
sume pretty nearly all he produced.
He would then be at the maximum of
efficiency constantly. It must be evi
dent to everybody that a world-wide
effort to beat down wafres would tend
to lessen the purchasing power of the
world, and that is precisely what Mr.
Van Cleave and those of his way of
thinking are doing. The only, method
of preventing such a result would be
to increase enormously the purchas
ing power of the few who do not
work. In other words, we must per
mit a few to waste while all the rest
of mankind produces, or else falling
wages will ultimately destroy mar
kets. Is it worth while to keep the mass
of the world's population in misery
by lowerin'g their wages in order that
a small number of persons may enjoy
the privilege of wasting without
stint? Is this a desirable ideal for
the human race? Is not the Ideal of
the Republican platform a better
one? Is it not better to pay the wage
earner as much as is reasonably pos
sible and let nobody waste until all
equitable wants have been supplied?
What good -is done to anj'body by
waste?
"THE ETERNAL FEMININE."
It is a subject we always have, with
us. Politics and ordinary contentions
may divert us, now and again; but
we have to deal every day and all
our lives with "the woman soul,"
which, as the poet tells us, "leadeth
us upward and on."
The "psychology" of woman is the
everlasting problem. Thanks to the
Greeks for giving us the word.' The
word from the Greek may indicate
how old this "soul" problem is. It
puzzled Euripides, who was set down
as a woman-hater. Socrates dodged
it. Virgil pauses, in the rush of his
epic, to drop a line or two on it.
Shakespeare offered no essay on it,
for he was rapid, and always wrote
as If everything he alluded . to was
known to everybody; but he has in
numerable touches, which show that
he more than any one had pene
trated the depth of the woman soul,
yet was not able to pluck out the
heart of Its mystery. Goethe makes
it a symbol of the supreme mystery
of human life. Likewise, it mystifies
Scott, and it feeds now the melan
cholj and now the fury, of Byron.
Professor Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, offers an essay on the sub'
Ject, in which he attempts a solution,
by the explanation that woman has
two souls, perhaps more. "By her
superior psychic endowment" we
quote here from the New Tork
World "she may love and hate, feel
joy and sorrow, at the same time,
while man is restricted to the indul
gence of one emotion. He may be a
Jekyll or Hyde in turn; woman both
at once. These two souls In women,
Dr. Hall says, may be strangers to
each other. Perhaps they do not al
ways speak. One, it is assumed, is
an affinity soul and the other respects
the proprieties. The professor would
appear to have found a clew to soul
mating which might be followed up
with profit."
The World follows this with a full
page article by Dr. Thomas C. Shaw,
lecturer on psychological medicine at
St. Bartholomew's, greatest of the
hospitals of London. "According to
Dr. Shaw, woman's moods, her tears,
her intensity, her fondness for clothes
and diamonds and the general mys
tery of her nature are due to the
over-development of certain emotions
at the expense of others. She has
repressed the instinct of love and de
veloped obstinacy, sympathy and
jealousy. Her muscular weakness
has obliged her to resort to artifice
to gain her ends."
Yet still, where do we find, except
in woman, the last devotion to un
selfish ideals of duty, to acceptance
of poverty and want, to the demands
of the higher affections, to the truest
altruism? It will be some time yet
till we get the last word on "the eter
nal feminine."
DOGS AVI) COWS.
The master of a howling dog al
ways hears sweet music In his noc
turnal yelps. The owner of a pirati
cal cow invariably believes that she
is an angel of meekness. To his im
agination she is a mirror of the bo
vine virtues, and the meaner she is
the brighter she shines. He is like
the father of a bad schoolboy. AVhen
the urchin gets punished the Infatu
ated parent blames the teacher and
by his fond folly helps the miserable
youth to slip and slide along the
broad and ample road that leads to
death. Why is It that despicable boys
always have fathers of the most con
fiding slmpliicty? Why is it that the
possessor of a freebooting cow can
never be convinced that she is guilty
of the slightest misdeed?
Show him where sne broke through
the fence last night and he will aver
that the hole has always been there,
he- has seen it a thousand times be
fore; and this he will say -without
consciousness of mendacity, although
up to that day he has never been
within a mile of the ravaged lot.
Show him the stumps of the cabbages
his destructive beast devoured and he
will solemnly swear that 'the good
wife boiled them for dinner the af
ternoon before and that her husband
ate them. This story he will main
tain even if there were a hundred
cabbages in the row which Bossy
devastated. No tale is too monstrous
for him to invent and believe if it ex
cuses hiB cow. Accuse her of a sin
gle one out of the myriad of her no
torious crimes and you make her
owner your enemy for life. Throw a
brick at her and he will slander your
wife. Hit her with the poker and he
will murder your children.
There is something uncanny In the
effect which the ownership of dogs
and cows produces upon a human be
ing. Let a man be never so truthful,
never so meek and gentle to his
neighbors, let the milk of human
kindness flow through his veins 6y
the tubfull, the moment he acquires
a cow he begins to emulate the
achievement of Ananias, his aspect
becomes ferocious, he floats over
bloodshed and riots in 6ruelty. He
undergoes these fearsomo transfor
mations because otherwise he could
not adequately defend his cow from
the wrath of the avengers who would
take the pay for their radishes and
turnips out of her hide and - horns.
Beware of the woman who adores a
dog and the man who idolizes a cow.
The one will offer you up a living
sacrifice to her pet without the faint
est scruple; the other swill look on
calmly while Bossy devoures your
garden and wrecks your home. In
an ideal social organization there
would ' be places in lunatic asylums
for the persons of either sex who
keep dogs and cows within the city
limits.
PORTLAND'S INDUSTRIAL AWAKENING
Plans for the construction at Port
land of the largest packing-house
west of the Rocky Mountains have
reached a point where specifications
are in the hands of prospective bid
ders. The 3000-acre site, valued at
nearly $3,000,000, has all been se
cured and is rapidly being put in or
der for business, and more than 200
carloads of machinery are on the way
to the city. Simultaneously with the
construction of this enormous plant
there will be in process of completion
on the west side of the river, the larg
est wheat warehouse in the world,
while down at St. John another im
mense structure for wheat handling
is under way. These two great in
dustrial projects, of course, can mean
nothing else than that Portland is to
be the headquarters of the grain and
livestock business of the Pacific
Northwest, and they show on the
part of the promoters of the big en
terprises a faith in Portland that au
gurs well for its future.
With the present facilities for mov
ing the wheat crop, Portland has in a
number of seasons handled more
wheat than has been handled by all
other North Pacific ports combined,
and as the single warehouse now un
der construction by the North Bank'
road will practically double the facili
ties of the port, it is assured beyond
a doubt that Portland will this season
make greater gains in the wheat
trade than ever before. The partic
ular advantages of this increased
trade drawn to Portland by the com
ing of the new railroad do not stop
at the work of receiving and shipping
the wheat, nor in slaughtering live
stock and shipping the product, but
the greater benefits lie In the jobbing
trade, which always follows the route
taken by the products shipped out of
the country. Portland enjoys an im
mense distributive trade because our
shippers have made a market for the
products of the territory which is
reached by the railroads already ter
minating here. During the coming
season this territory will receive Im
mense additions through the comple
tion of the North Bank Railroad, the
opening of the Lewiston-Riparia
branch of the O. R. & N., and of the
Wallowa branch of the same road.
All of these lines make tributary to
Portland a large area of wonderfully
rich country from which this cjty has
been barred in the past by lack of
transportation faailities. The city- is
already feeling the advance wave of
this coming increase in business and
active preparations for handling It
are quite general. New buildings
continue to rise in the warehouse dis
trict and old ones are being remod
eled and enlarged. The recent breath
of hard times failed to check the in
flow of population that began with
the 1905 Fair, and, although resi
dence permits for the first five months
of 1908 exceeded those of the same
period in 1907 by nearly 600, the de
mand for modern dwellings and
apartments continues unabated.
"Portland as a city is also preparing
to meet the changed conditions that
are -coming with the Increased com
mercial activity. There are under
way, or authorized, more miles of
street work than ever before in the
history of the city, and long before
present work is finished there will be
more miles of new streets to be Im
proved. It will require something
more powerful than a Presidential
election to check the movement that
is now gathering headway in Port
land. JUSTICK BREWER ON INJUNCTIONS.
As might have been foreseen. Jus
tice Brewer, of the Federal Supreme
Court, is not very well pleased with
the anti-injunction plank in the Na
tional Republican platform. It is an
exceedingly mild plank, as inoffensive
as a sucking dove, but Mr. Brewer
does not like it. He laments, some
what fatuously; that the Injunction
question has been dragged Into poll
tics, as if anything under heaven that
affects the lives and fortunes of men
could escape being dragged into poll
tics in this country. Votes have been
given us for the purpose of dragging
things into politics and getting them
settled Justly by the prooess of argu
mentative contention. To this disa
greeable circumstance Judge Brewer
must reconcile his soul the best he
can. Probably It will be difficult for
him, since his . views of the power
and prestige of judges are exalted. It
was he who said some time ago in a
speech that the Supreme Court was
above the President and: Congress,
thus differing from the Constitution,
which makes the three departments
co-ordinate.
Concerning injunctions Mr. Brewer
says that "the restraining power of
the equity court is worth vastly more
than the punishing power of the
criminal court." If this means any
thing, it means that he would have
the judges substitute their individual
will for the law of . the land. Their
will might ' in many cases be better
than the law, but the race to which
we belong .has struggled for many
hundred years to escape from the
rule of arbitrary power and it is not
likely at this late day to relinquish
the fruits of the struggle. The self
contradiction involved in Judge
Brewer's statement is. of course, evi
dent. The "restraining power" of
the equity court must be also a "pun
ishing power" or it amounts to noth
ing. All that he would accomplish
If he had his way would be to substi
tute one punishing power for another,
the punishing power of a single Judge
who would accuse, try, condemn, and
sentence, for that of the ordinary law
where a man is tried by a Jury. The
whole gist of the injunction rage is to
abolish jury trials In a certain class
of cases.
The uncertainty of the political sit
uation was reflected in the New Tork
stock market yesterday. There was
heavy liquidation in the railroad list
and a number of industrials also suf
fered. Union Pacific suffered a loss
of more than three points. Northern
Pacific was also a heavy loser, and
even the staid old Pennsylvania, with
all of its financial troubles behind It,
declined over a point. ' Wall street
has been regarded as favorable to
Taft, and it was expected that his
nomination would be followed by a
broader market. Some, if not all, of
the inactivity may be traceable to the
fact that the nomination of Taft had
been regarded as a foregone conclu
sion and that the market in previ
ous rallies had discounted the effect
of the actual nomination. Wall
street as well as the "rest of the coun
try will require a few days' time in
which to get its bearlngson the situation.
There are always those who must
have some, fetich to worship. A
while ago it was the Portland char
ter. Anybody who would lay unhal
lowed hands on this holy instrument
was to be drawn and quartered. Tet
from these same sources now goes a
loud demand for amendment of the
sacred charter. The new object of
worship is the holy statement, or
vermiform appendix, of the primary
law. It is fiat burglary, as ever was
committed, to call it in question. But
there will be a new fetich one of
these days, and the altars of the
sacrosanct "statement,"- deserted by
their loops of acolytes, will then be
left desolate and bare. People must
have fads, and one will always be
superseded by another.
In his speech presenting to the Na
tional convention the name of La Fol
lette, Henry F. Cochems said" that
"the black flag and .the white are
strangers to Wisconsin Republicans."
Election returns will show whether
there are pirates or quitters among
the Republicans of the Badger State.
At any rate, the expression was some
thing new and is worthy of remem
brance, even' here in Oregon, where
loyalty to party is so well established
as a political principle and where
political piracy was never known. Of
course!
Governor Chamberlain, before our
June election, was right in accord
with Roosevelt. But Roosevelt now
send3 a congratulatory telegram to
Taft and Sherman, expressing the
hope and belief that they will be
elected. Since there is no difference
in politics between Roosevelt and
Chamberlain, or between Chamber
lain and Roosevelt, we shall look
with interest in Eastern newspapers
foi a congratulatory telegram from
Chamberlain to Taft and Sherman.
The question whether Oregon Is a
Republican or a Democratic state will
be decided by the vote between Taft
and Bryan .in November. Should
Oregon prove a Republican state, a
lot of "Statement Republicans," com
mitted to election of a Democratic
Senator in January, will realize all
their embarrassment, as so-called
"representatives of the people." But
if Bryan should carry the state, their
way. as representatives of the people,
would be plain.
Not only the law, but good busi
ness practice, requires that" fruit
growers and packers place their
names and addresses upon their
fruit boxes. It is necessary in order
to guard against the marketing of
diseased fruit, and it is worth while
from an advertising standpoint. Put
your name on a box of good fruit and
you will be kindly remembered by
every consumer of your product. Be
sides, if you don't do it, you are likely
to be fined.
When Detective Joe Day secures an
injunction to restrain the Chief of
Police from reducing him to the rank
of a patrolman, we begin to get a
glimpse of the importance of the in
junction as a means of protecting our
rights and liberties. And yet the Re
publican platform proposes to reduce
the power of the courts to issue in
junctions. . Will this send our able
detective over to Bryan?
Those many eminent gentlemen
who declared so emphatically that
Roosevelt was not sincere in declining
a third term will, of course, wire
their apologies at once, now that they
have learned their error. Judging
others by themselves, they could not
deem It possible that the President
would refuse a nomination which he
could have had without the asking.
It will be put right up to the peo
ple . of Oregon in the Presidential
election whether they want a Repub
lican or a Democratic President, and
by consequence whether they want a
Democratic or Republican Senator.
The vote, in- June on the Senator was
merely a bunco game.
The Republican National Conven
tion declared in favor of a special
session of Congress Immediately after
the next Presidential Inauguration.
Looks as if "Our George" will get a
chance to give up the Governorship
sooner than he anticipated.
' Salem and Stayton are to be con
nected with a trolley line. Such a
line, extending back into the Cascade
Mountains, will go far toward solving
the fuel problem for the state institu
tions. Senator Bourne will support Taft
but thinks It will be difficult to eleci
him. When he supported Bryan he
thought Bryan's election easy.
At least we are safe in betting a
hundred-dollar bill that Bill will be
elected President. And you can take
your choice between Bills.
If Mr. Bryan can't find anything in
the Republican platform to attack,
he might call attention to the absence
of a prohibition plank.
Taft's other boomer In Oregon, F.
W. Mulkey, of course will be recog
nized as well as Senator Fulton.
To make Senator Bourne's discomV
fiture complete. Senator Fulton will
now need to elect Taft.
La Follette pledges to Taft. It is
an incident of some significance and
importance.
Those girl graduates . lose their
sweetness if they keep on studying
after graduation.
WANTS DUAL SALMON COMMISSION
Thinks Oregon and Washington Should
Join In Protective Work.
DUFUR, Or., June 18. (To the Editor.)
In last Saturday's Oregonlan I notice
that Secretary of State Benson has as
cribed a plan by which he expects to
alleviate the result of the election of
both the fish bills passed at our last
election, by having a committee of seven
prominent men of different parts of the
state and the fish departments of the
Government appointed to study the effect
of the two bills if they should have be
come a law; the conditions and facts as
they exist today on the salmon question
of the Columbia River and Its tribu
taries; and from the information so
gained, prepare a bill that would meet
the requirements of all concerned and
the protection and propagation of the sal
mon, and have the bill introduced in the
next Legislature, to become a law, if
possible.
I heartily Indorse Mr.' Benson's plan
.and would like to add a suggestion: That
the committee so appointed, if it could
be possibly arranged, meet with a like
committee from the State of Washing
ton. What is good for Oregon Is good for
Washington, in the way of the protection
and propagation of the salmon of the
Columbia River, and I believe that the
Fish Commission of Washington. If it
were invited to take a part in this work,
would lend a helping hand, and enact
laws through its Legislature for the wel
fare of the fish Industry.
The reason I suggest this plan is be
cause I was a member of the last Legis
lature from Wasco County and was hon
ored by being appointed chairman of a
committee of three from the House and
two from the Senate, to meet with a like
committee from the Washington Legisla
ture, and we so met In the Portland Ho
tel. I had the opportunity there to study
facts relating to the salmon industry, and
Its protection, as viewed by people In
the fish business and people interested
in the propagation and protection of sal
mon, and from facts and conditions pre
sented at this meeting, and the Interest
that the Washington legislators took in
the meeting. I found a strong wish that
there should be some effective laws en
acted as would tend to the proper protec
tion of the Columbia River salmon. The
committees above referred to prepared a
bill which was introduced in the Oregon
Legislature and passed the House with
a good majority, but was defeated in the
Senate.
The question now Is, shall the salmon
be protected or shall they become ex
tinct, by their wanton destruction by the
fishermen of the lower and upper river,
and other rivers of the state? I say.
No. Not at all. The fishermen and can
perymen should be Interested alike, more
than any other people, as to the protec
tion of one of the greatest industries of
the Northwest. But the fishermen" seem
to care not for tomorrow, but look for
ward only to the result and gain of to
day's fishing, regardless of what the con
sequences will be in the future, if such
taking of the salmon Is allowed to
continue.
In this protection work, Oregon should
take the first step forward as proposed
by Mr. Benson, and appoint the commit
tee at once, giving them ample time to
study the conditions and facts of the
question involved, and have a bill intel
ligently prepared for the next Legisla
ture to act upon. This done, the Legisla
ture would be released from one of tho
most. arduous and embarrassing proposi
tions it would have to contend with. The
work of the lobbyist and a great part of
the opposition that Is always present
would be eliminated, and such a bill
would come nearer being passed than
any other measure that might be pre
sented under the conditions surround
ing It.
P. W. KNOWLES.
TAFT FOR LOCAL OPTION.
Defines) Hla Position on Question to
Burlington Lender.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BURLINGTON. N. J.. June 9. Secre
tary Taft's position on local option Is
satisfactory to friends of the movement
in this county. Norman B. Hoffman wrote
to the Secretary of War calling his at
tention to assertions of representatives
of the liquor interests to the effect that
Mr. Taft was opposed to the principle of
local option, and that prohibition would
not settle the liquor question.
In his reply Mr. Taft quotes his own
addresses before the Pennsylvania Bar
Association and the students of Tale Uni
versity. He said:
"In this class of laws affecting the sale
of liquors legislators have devised a
method of local referendum called local
option, which has worked -well because It
is practical.
"It may be impossible by general ref
erendum for the people at large under
standing to pass upon the various ques
tions arising in the framing of compli
cated legislation and to reach a satis
factory result; but upon the simple Issue
whether saloons shall be prohibited In a
particular community it Is entirely easy
for the local public clearly to consider the
issue and decide it. When It has ex
pressed Its opinion In the affirmative the
question of the practical operation of tho
law Is thereby removed from the dis
cussion. "By a popular vote in favor of prohibi
tion it Is made certain that the execu
tive officers elected by that local com
munity will zealously carry out the law
and that Juries selected from the vicinage
will do their duty as required by the
statute."
Pertinent Inquiry.
The Dalles Optimist.
Does the defeat of John Manning mean
that State Treasurer Steel is not to be
prosecuted?. Does it mean that Mr. Ross
is to stand the brunt of the Ross-Steel
deal, and the Treasurer go free? We
hope not.
A FEW SQUIBS.
"Is your husband a Congregationalism a
Presbyterian or a Swendenborgian ?"
"No'm; he's a plumber." Baltimore Amer
ican. David B. Hill, who holds the copyright of
the I-am-a-remocrat declaration, savs the
Democratic party is dead. What is David
B. Hill now? Chicago Tribune.
Mother "Why, Bobble, how clean your
hands are." Bobble "Aren't they? But
you ought to have seen 'em before I helped
Bridget make the bread." Life.
Landlady's son 'addicted to nickel litera
ture) "Say, pardner, what's meant by
'stand by to repel boarders?' " Mr. New
come (sadly eying his dessert) "Stewed
prunes." Judge.
"1 tell you." said Mrs. Lapsllng. "Johnny
made a splendid Impression while he was
speaking his piece at the school exhibition
last Friday afternoon. He wo the syndi
cate of all eyes." Chicago Tribune.
Winning Lady (triumphantly) "I am
sure none of you could guess where I
learned to play bridge." Her Friendly Foe
"Tou have never told me, but it was a
correspondence school, waa It not?" Harv
ard Lampoon.
Policeman (to tenant of flat) "And yon
nay the rug was stolen from your hall. Can
you give me any particulars of it?" Tenant
(nervously) "Oh, yes. It waa a fancy re
versible rug red on one side and green on
the other." Policeman (impressively) "Ah
and which was the green side?" Punch.
Mrs Nurltch "I told Widow Downes to
send her boy to you and you'd give him
a position ." Mr. Nurltch "Well. I
didn't give him no position. He came with
a note from her an' she said in the note:
I must find employment for my boy, even
If he works for a mere pittance.' The
nerve of her callin ma a mere pittance!"
Philadelphia Press.
"As a member of Congress, his attitude
waa ever statesmanlike. When the ques
tion waa one which didn't matter one way
or the other, and which nobody with a vote
was interested in. he urged prompt ac
tion." "Indeed!" "And when there was a
difficult matter, not to be decided without
offending somebody who was somebody, he
was always ready to suggest the creation
of a commission." Puck.
THREATENS TO INVOKE INITIATIVE
Lnless Corvallla Educates Its High
School Children Apart From O. A. C.
ASHLAND, Or., June 18. (To the Edi
torsWithout desiring to "butt in" on the
discussion of the matter of the alleged
duplication of courses of study in the
University of Oregon and at the Oregon
Agricultural College, I do want to give
my hearty indorsement to both, Messrs.
Wilbur and Turner, that something
should and must be done In ,the matter
of forcing Corvallls to educate its own
high school children, and further, for
bidding the O. A. C. from receiving pupils
from those towns which have high
schools of their own.
I know of several young people who are
at the O. A. C. simply to do their high
school work, expecting then to either,
enter the University of Oregon or some,
other college. If Corvallls does not open
Its own high school, and the college
ceases taking pupils from high schools,
then It remains for Mr. Turner to begin
his "Initiative," and if he will send me
the forms I will agree to secure at least
1C00 names for him right here in Jackson
county.
Two-thirds of the pupils of the O. A. C.
should be In some high school, and If
Eugene 'Palmer is really so anxious to
see the common school built up. I would
suggest that the $75,000 to J100.000 that
the college asks for each year for new
buildings to provide for the pupils who
should be In the high schools might then
be applied to the common school fund,
and in a few years this fund would thus
be materially increased.
Ashland has a normal school, but it
has also a good high school. Weston has
a normal, but also a high school. Salem
has "Old Willamette," but a splendid high
school; likewise Albany and others that
could be mentioned.
Wily, then, should Corvallls "sponge"
on the state and the state give money
to the O. A. C. for new buildings simply
to educate the high school children of
Corvallls and some other towns? If Cor
vallls is "on to itself," and if the college
can read the signs of the times, both will
see that these abuses are corrected. If
not, others will correct them for them,
and perhaps not to their liking.
As to an engineering school in Eastern
Oregon, there are two sides to that ques
tionalthough it does seem as though
big Eastern Oregon Is entitled to more
than simply a small normal school at the
hands of the state.
MARVELL C. BILLINGS.
CALLS FOR MEN TEACHERS.
English Critic Sees Harm In So Many
Women Educator.
Pathfinder.
While one nation may be thorough
ly satisfied as to the right or wrong of
a thing, it is always interesting to
note what another nation thinks, as it
may give a better perspective. Such Is
true of Individuals, and the recent ob
servations on sex differences In edu
cation which were made by a corre
spondent for the "London Times are
quite worthy of consideration. He re
fers to the fact that against some
109.000 men teachers America has
nearly 357,000 women in the same pro
fession, and says that while it is well
to have women teach the elementary
classes which boys attend, the boys
ought not to be Instructed at 18 years
by female teachers.
"Men have told me," he says, "that
they now recognize that serious in
jury was wrought upon them at that
period of their school life when, lone
ly, shy and sullen, they were left to
fight through their crisis, not knowing
that it was a crisis that came to all
and was necessary in the development
of life.. I have met few serious teach
ers of either seg who did not deplore
the excessive preponderance of women
on the teaching staffs of secondary
schools and the higher classes of ele
mentary schools."
He admits that Americana are sure
that sexual perversion and sexual ten
sion are obviated by co-education, but
declares that the effect upon adolescent
boys is not good. The girl of 14 who
enters the high school is more mature
than the boy of the same age and she
excels in 'the work that requires con
centration. "And," continues the
writer, "as in most high schools the
girls greatly outnumber the boys, the
courses of study, by an inevitable pro
cess of evolution, have become adapted
to the special capacities of the girls.
Thus, In classes taught by women, boys
are taught, with girls, studies that are
peculiarly suited to girls, and the boys
do not have from the teacher, who is a
woman, the comprehension of them
selves and their moods that the girls
receive.
"The boys are in a minority; and, as
the Irrepressible tendency to imitate
tho majority asserts Itself, they be
come an Inferior copy of girls, winning
a girl's gentleness and sensitiveness,
but not the proper strength of either
sex. Tried by a woman's and by a
girl's standards, the boys prove Infer
ior; and when at last they enter upon
their full heritage they are irreparably
wounded in their dignity, and have lost
the faith In themselves of which, in
order to play a man's part In life, they
have the utmost need. There is no
greater danger to character than this."
"No Harking Back."
Pendleton Tribune.
The Democratic paper of Portland finds
fault with The Oregonlan because "It is
harping on 60 years back." But why not
when it seems necessary? Is Jefferson
so soon forgotten? Or Jackson? Does
the salvation of Man depend upon dis
cussing Statement No. 1. and In the Ore
gon Democratic mind are the ten com
mandments to be superseded by the re
call and Chamberlain's specific brand of
nonpartlsanshlp?
Clearing; It Up.
The Dalles Optimist.
A correspondent writes to ask what
figure our nonpartisan Chamberlain will
cut in the Senate. Why. Lord bless your
poor benighted soul. Chamberlain is a
Democrat, and has been since the elec
tion. He was a non-partisan all right
before the election, but for the next six
years he will be a Democrat. Foxy
grandpa!
Alas, Poor Jonathan.
Eugene Register.
What became of that stampede for
Roosevelt? It must have gotten under
Taft and been squelched. Alas. Jona
than, think of a Senatorial term thus
far wasted in a hopeless undertaking.
The Silence Cure.
London Dally Mall.
How swiftly runs the hypochondriac's
tongue
On all the various symptoms that afflict
him!
The ills that chiefly arise from nerves un
strung t
Are ail described to his unhappy victim.
Who. at the close. Is called on to endure
A disquisition on the latest "cure."
Proud la that sufferer with the pride of
kings;
He. asks no more congenial employment
As to the restive buttonhole he clings
And rambles on with obvious enjoyment.
Just as tho Ancient Mariner Impressed
His grewsome tale upon the Wedding Guest.
Therefore the world will hall with grateful
tears
The latest curse which blda ths creature,
thirsting
To pour his tale Into unwilling ears.
To practice silence to the point of burst
ing. Since he will quickly lose, beyond a doubt.
The symptoms which he cannot talk about.
Sweet Is the sllenra of the wild, but oh!
Far sweeter. If It be not past achieving.
The silence of the wretch who made us so!
For thus we find a double cure relieving
Not only him who now must save his breath
But us, who have, been nearly bored to
death.!
RAILWAYS NATION MAKING.
They Knit the North and South To
gether After the Civil War.
Leslie's Weekly.
The Southern railways, more than
brotherhood, knitted the North and
South together after the war. Tho rail
ways gave prosperity to the South by
encouraging immigration and bringing
in people to help do the upbuilding.
Memphis 20 years ago had a population
of 64,000. Today it has 102,000. The
railways did it.
A few years ago hundreds of places
in Louisiana, like Crowley, for example,
were only prairie land. The .Southern
Pacific built a station at Crowley, and
today that place boasts 70uo persons.
Other roads did the same thing for a
hundred other thriving places in the
Southern gtates. The Southern Railway
went into the waste places of the South
and caused' towns to spring up. The
Seaboard Air Line went Into the coun
try of blasted hopes, and built up new
industries and with them new courage.
To a region of penury the Atlantic
Coast Line brought plenty by puttinfi
cash into circulation where no cash had
been before. The Southern Railway
gave the exact service necessary for the
healthy development of the states
through which it runs. It not only
created new Industries, but itself be
came the chief customer for the pro
ducts of the new mills.
The South needed $200,000,000 for fur
ther immediate development. The
Southern railways were securing that
vast investment of Northern capital
along their lines when the unreason
ing agitation against all railroads set
in and, temporarily at least, halted the
southward movement of money.
One hundred and six new railway en
terprises were under way in the South
when the politicians began using tho
Southern railroads as footballs. Those ,
new roads were to be for the develop
ments timber and mining regions and
to handle "long hauls" in Texas and
Oklahoma. The promoters of the en
terprises have, for the moment, been
frightened away.
WHAT SAVED "UNCLE JOE."
Lifting Machine That Long Ago Proved
A Health Presrn er.
Washington (D. C.) Dispatch to the
Boston Herald.
The secret of perpetual youth, which
has permitted "Uncle Joe" Cannon to
be as young as he is at 72, has ju;--t
been rediscovered here by a former
Senator from New Hampshire. Henry
W. Blair, who is no youngster him
self, having been born in 1834, and
the present Speaker, were fellow-members
of the House 30 years ago. Both
at that time were in poor health. They
suffered from indigestion and were so
trail ana puny looking that each an
ticipated the necessity of purchasing
a bouquet to place with reverent hands
upon the grave of the other. They
lived in the same boarding-house in
those days, and to prolong their lives
entered into partnership for the pur
chase of a lifting machine, which they
erected in a hallway outside of their
rooms, and upon which they practiced
diligently night and morning, with a
view to the Improvement of their phys
ical beings.
The other day Mr. Blair, in rummag
ing around his bouse, stumbled in an
attio upon the lifting apparatus long
since discarded. It reminded him of
the days when he and Cannon were
on the verge of the grave and des
paired of attaining old age. In great
excitement he went down to the Capi
tol, hunted up "Uncle Joe," and broke
the news to him.
"Joe," said he, "do you remember,
way back yonder, when you and I
didn't think we would live more than
"I certainly do," said "Uncle Joe."
"I think you were the thinnest, sick-'
est man In the world, and I lived in
constant fear that I would have to:
buy a pair of black gloves and walk
slow behind your hearse, 'Member
that old lifting machine we used to
have?"
"'You bet I do," said Senator Blair,
"and I found It this morning, just as
good as new, too."
"I'll be over to try my muscle in a
day or two." laughed the Speaker. "It
certainly was a health preserver, all
right."
HAS "ROOSEVELT FAMILY."
Chicago Mu Prond of Hi Fifteen
Living Children
Chicago Record-Herald.
Fifteen children that is the record
as a parent which has been made by
Richard Farrell, who looms in tho
limelight ae the head of a regular
Rooseveltlan big family, because of the
visit of a school census enumerator.
When the list of the Farrell children
was turned in ,at headquarters at the
Board of Education the officials in
charge of the census proceeded to
award the palm forthwith to the Far
rells as being the biggest family in the
list.
They consist or eight boys and seven
girls. Paterfamilias Farrell, surrounded
by some half dozen of his progeny, ex
plains that he, had thus far given six
voters to the United States, as a sex
tet of his sons are over 21. Two of the
girls are over 21. The others or the
family range from 10 to 19 years.
"I suppose I've got what might be
called a sure enough Roosevelt family
the kind Rooseevlt urges every father
to raise," said Mr. Farrell. "Well, that
may be all right in theory. It undoubt
edly is all right for big fellows like
Roosevelt or ex-Mayor Dunne to have
huge families. They ran afford the lux
ury. Rockefeller, for Instance, could
have had a hundred sons and nver
have given a thought about the ex
pense. "But for. me well, I'm an elliptical
springmaker by trade, and I can tell
you that it is no joke to raise 15 chil
dren unless you have a mighty big in
come. I think if a man is going to
follow out the Roosevelt theory and
have a large family he should have a
large salary to start with. 1 wouldn't
advise anyone with a small income to
have more than a small family."
Mr. Farrell is an Englishman, but ho
has lived In Chicago almost continu
ously since 1S63. He came here In that
year and subsequently went away for
about five yfars. living chiefly on the
Pacific Coast. His children were all
born Americans. Most of them were
born In Illinois. The remainder owe
natal allegiance to Missouri, Kansas
and California.
Detective Methods In India.
Westminster (London) Gazette.
A very old Indian detective trick played
its part In the arrst of the Bnii"."iH
youth Khurdirnm Bose. who threw the
bomb which killed Mrs. and Miss Ken
nedy at Mozufferpore.
He was seated in the railway station
at Waini, some twenty miles from the
scene of the crime, and was eating a
meal of rice, when two constables ap
proached him. One of the constables no
ticed that the youth's saliva had eeas"d
to flow, apparently through fright at the
sudden appearance of the policemen, and
that, in spite of his nonchalant air. ha
was unable to continue his meal. The
constable toyed with his man for a while,
and then having his suspicions confirmed,
seized him before he could fire the re
volver with which he was trying to shoot
himself. The system of detection, it Is
stated, is traditional among the Indian
police.
A suspected person will he placed with
others, and a ijatlve inspector will mutter
some gibberish" over an old four-cornered
rupee. Having thus worked upon the
fears of his auditors, he will give each of
them a handful of rice, and instruct them
to eat it as fast as they can. Tire
guilty one. it Is averred, will he unable to
eat, and the strike of the salivary glands
is regarded as furnishing a prima facie
case for arrest.