THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1909.
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I'ORTIAXD, MONDAY, MAI W II IS, 1909.
ASHLAND AND CORVALUS.
It is not surprising: that Ashland
ehould seek reprisal against the State
Agricultural College, which was suc
cessful at the recent legislative ses
sion in obtaining appropriations both
for maintenance and for necessary
improvements and extensions. Yet
It cannot be supposed that Ashland and
Its partisans are really in earnest in
their purpose to wreck the Ag
ricultural College. For they have
heretofore been willing to make any
sort of combination with Corvaliis and
any kind of concession to the college,
provided they were permitted to smell
out their own particular from the
general treasury. There was no out
cry then from the Ashland claim
ants about the exorbitant and
unreasonable demands of the Cor
valiis institution, for they had their
own exorbitant ami unreasonable de
mands to promote and protect. Be
cause they failed at the late session,
they want Corvaliis likewise to have
nothing. Yet it may be supposed that
the people of Ashland, or such of them
as are behind this referendum move
ment, are offering their protests
against the State Agricultural College
merely as a club to drive that insti
tution and its friends into line for
their particular enterprise. It may
be supposed likewise that, if they fail
now, they will make their threat good
and actually invoke the referendum on
the Corvaliis appropriation. It is all
much to be deplored; but there is no
help for it, apparently, while Ashland
is in its present irreconcilable frame
of mind and while we have in the ref
erendum a convenient vehicle" for the
satisfaction of revenge to which any
community or individual may appeal.
The college at Corvaliis is doing a
most important work that commends
itself to the state at large. The state
supports it, in conjunction with the
Federal Government, because it
achieves results, beneficial directly or
indirectly to every citizen. It is not
a local institution; it is not a high
school for Corvaliis; it is not a sec
tional or community enterprise in any
sense. It "belongs to the State of Ore
gon, and very likely It will be found,
before Ashland is. through with the
referendum, that the agricultural dis
tricts of the state will rally behind
the institution in which they have and
should have great interest and great
pride.
The difficulty with the Oregon ed
ucational scheme, as ft has been de
veloped, in' the past, is that we are un
dertaking here to compete with older
and larger states, and to have schools
and colleges in great variety far be
yond the ability of the state' to
support properly. The state has
not been willing to cut its garment
according to its cloth. It must be
done now, for we are confronted by
a condition that requires recognition.
The Oregonian sees, or fancies it sees,
in the determination to cut off the
normal schools, the beginning of a
movement to consolidate the higher
educational institutions of the state.
Next, very likely, . if the state gets
through this normal school agitation
safely, and without restoring old con
ditions, there will be an effort to unite
the State University at Eugene and
the State Agricultural J3ollege. It
ought to be done. It would mean
economy for the state, greater ef
ficiency for the institution, and a
vastly higher standing for the com
bined university and college than
either can hope to have under the
present arrangement. No reason ex
ists why the united university or col
lege should not have a normal depart
ment. If the state has a duty at all
to train teachers, let them be trained
at the State University. It may be
expected that all students who enter
such a normal department will go
there to fit themselves to be teachers
with the full expectation of remain
ing in the profession. How many of
the graduates of the normal schools
are now teaching in Oregon or any
where else? How many teachers, for
example, in the Portland public
schools have diplomas from any Ore
Eon normal school? You can count
them on your fingers. Yet these in
stitutions have been doing their work
for years and Portland has 600 or 700
public school teachers.
Undoubtedly the normal school
question will be submitted in some
way to the people as a whole. Yet
the place where it ought to be set
tled properly and effectually Is at the
Legislature. If several succeeding
Legislatures shall persist in the ap
parent attitude of the present Legis
lature, undoubtedly we shall finally
have an end to the demands from
these. Institutions for support that
should come, if at all, from the sev
eral communities in which they are
located and not from the state.
CHAJi'GH IN. COPYRIGHT. .
The bill for a new copyright law,
which was hurried through Congress
at the last minute, seems to be a better
measure than could have been ex
pected from the way it was passed.
It is a long time since anything like
rational discussion has been heard in
the House of Representatives and the
debate on the copyright bill was as
inane as possible. Still, it slipped
through, partly perhaps because the
members did not know how good it
was. The Springfield Republican,
whose opinion upon such matters is
admitted by everybody to be valuable,
gives the new law qualified approval
after a careful analysis.
It permits an author to renew his
copyright for twenty-eight years, in
stead of fourteen, after the first period
of twenty-eight years has expired, thus
making the duration. o his monopoly
J than a bare living at best out of their
dooks, ana the law has hitherto given
them but grudging Justice. The new
liberality of Congress toward litera
ture Is perhaps a sign of advancing
civilization. Some such sign was need
ed in Congress to ward off National
despondency. The new law permits
some productions, like lectures, to be
copyrighted which enjoyed only scant
protection formerly. English books
written in Great Britain cannot be
cops-righted here unless they are set
up and printed in. this country, but
works in foreign languages are pro
tected from piracy even when printed
abroad, and imported.
The phonograph trust tried to in
sert a provision in the copyright law
which would have driven its com
petitors out of the market. Its plan
was to allow the author of a piece of
music to assign the exclusive right to
can and reproduce it, but, for a
wonder, the plan failed. The law pro
vides that he may forbid reproduction
entirely, but if he allows it to one
person, then it belongs equally to
everybody who is willing to pay the
fixed price for It, namely, two cents
a copy.
ENOUGH, QUITE ESOTGO.
No doubt a reply to complaints that
the recent Washington Legislature was
extravagant in making 9 10,000,000 ap
propriations will be that It is a J 10,
000,000 state. It is. But that Is ino
reason why the state's substance
should be wholly wasted and dissipated
in one short biennial term. But wait.
The oppressed taxpayer will make
himself heard and perhaps felt later.
He is patient and long-suffering, and
willing to be gouged to a reasonable
extent by wasteful and extravagant
state, county and city taxeaters; but
the day of reckoning comes sooner or
later, and when it does the- taxpayer
has his inning.
If Washington can stand $10,000,000
for state appropriations, Oregon ought
not to complain about a. trifling sum
like $4,250,000, we are told. Per
haps not. Yet if Washington sees fit
through an improvident Legislature to
throw away large sums of money, Ore
gon is hardly Justified in following its
example. Perhaps this is only Wash
ington's pleasant way of showing that
it has money to burn.
But the entire sum of $10,000,000 is
not to be raised by direct taxation, as
in Oregon not more than $6,000,000
or $7,000,000. There is $1,000,000 of
the $10,000,000 to be raised by sale of
state lands for construction of the pro
posed new Capitol; and there are
other such sources of income for the
state. It will hardly be disputed by
any one that Washington has more
population and more wealth than Ore
gon, so that the $6,000,000 or $7,000,
000 its taxpayers must pay the state in
two years may not be a heavier bur
den than the $4,250,000 in Oregon.
But it is enough, quite enough; and
in this case enough is much too much.
KKVENGE THROUGH REFERENDUM.
If any considerable number of cit
izens honestly believe that the Agri
cultural College appropriations were
unreasonable and unwarranted, it is
their right and privilege to proceed
against them under the referendum.
But no one has a right to use the ref
erendum for revenge. No one has a
right to use the referendum against
one bill in order to coerce members of
the Legislature Into supporting another
bill. Every measure should stand
upon its own merits. Whether It shall
prevail or be defeated should not be
Influenced in the least by any action
that may be taken upon any other
measure with which It Is unrelated.
The friends of the normals, who are
now proposing the referendum upon
the Agricultural College appropriation
bill, are justifying the statement so
many times repeated that the normals
secured their existence and continu
ance by trading. It was exactly this
that created most sentiment against
the normals. By their very act In
attacking the Agricultural College ap
propriation bill, the friends are con
firming the old feeling against the
normals, for they virtually say that
they are willing to let the college ap
propriation stand If they can get an
appropriation for the normals also.
Trading has always been one of the
greatest evils of legislation and It
seems that we are to have it even
under the initiative and referendum.
IS ENGLAND APPROACHING A CRISIS?
The British naval estimates Issued
last Friday show an increase of about
$15,000,000 over the estimates of last
year. The building programme pro
vides for four Dreadnoughts, six pro
tected cruisers, twenty torpedo-boat
destroyers and a number of sub
marines. It is further announced that
an effort will be made to start work
In 1910 on four additional large ar
mored vessels. Thus does Great Brit
ain servo notice on the rest of the
world that the time-honored "two
power standard" is to be maintained at
all hazards. "The boast of heraldry,
the pomp of power," etc., is very dear
to the heart of the British patriot, and
among tho wealthy classes, or even
those in- moderate ircumstances,
there will be little objection to this
awful and ever-increasing expense that
is necessary in order to build and
maintain a navy of such vast size.
But down among the submerged
masses, among the small tradesmen
and artisans, among the millions who
are at all times on the verge of star
vation, there are increasing "threat
enlngs and complaints and impreca
tions on men and saints' because of
the prodigal expenditures for war pur
poses at a time when men, women
and children are actually dying from
starvation. Estimates made by the
London trades unions early last Win
ter placed the number of skilled work
men out of employment at 500,000,
while the number of unskilled labor
ers was placed at 1,000,000; and, as
each of these men had some one de
pendent on them, the number of peo
ple who were suffering ran into the
millions. The old age pensions act
has alleviated some of this suffering
among those who are too old to work,
but it falls far short of solving the
grave problem of pauperism with
which Great Britain is confronted.
There have been paupers since the
world began, but at no previous time
In her history has the problem pre
sented such serious aspects as It now
shows to. England. That pauperism is
on the increase in spite of both public
and private efforts to alleviate the
trouble quite clearly Indicates a pro
nounced defect in the economic policy
of the Country, and the feeling, al
ready intense, will not be alleviated
when the millions of poorly-clad, half
starving paupers and those whose
hearts their condition, must touch, note
the ever-in creasing expenditures for
war purposes. There Is much In the
present situation that points to a crisis
in the career of the "power whose flag
Is never furled."
PROSPERITY'S FLOOD TIDE.
The 1909 wool clip Is already sell
ing at prices 'averaging 5 cents per
pound higher than were paid a year
ago. There is a demand for all of the
wheat left in the country at prices
which in most districts mean $1 per
bushel to the farmers. Livestock, po
tatoes, onions, and about every other
product grown on the farm, are sell
ing at unusually high prices. Natur
ally these are conditions which spell
prosperity for the farmers, and It is a
very simple line of reasoning from
cause to effect that accounts for a sim
ilar degree of prosperity on different
lines in the city. Twelve business
days of the month of March have
passed, and in that abbreviated- fort
night new records for the period have
been established in Portland real es
tate transfers, building permits, bank
clearings and coastwise lumber ship
ments. With a large number of the real es
tate transfers of great magnitude ap
pearing on the records under the nom
inal t and $5 consideration, the totals
for the first twelve days of March ran
up to $1,470,643, with building permits
for the same period aggregating $427,
755 and bank clearings in excess of
$16,000,000. Coastwise lumber ship
ments by water were more than 7,000,
000 feet, and nearly 2,000,000 feet was
sent foreign. Sixty-six vessels of more
than 100,000 tons carrying capacity
entered and cleared at Portland during
the twelve da, and. whllo th min
season has been cut short by the heavy
shipments earlier in the season, March
exports already include 60,000 barrels
of flour, 250,000 bushels of wheat and
3000 tons of barlev. oats and mill feed
There are now loading in port or un
der charter to load lumber vessels
with a capacity of more than 18,000,
000 feet, while the chartered fleet due
to arrive wvtnin the next thirty days
has a capacity of 20,000,000 feet of
lumber.
While the citv real estate dealers
have been selling city residence and
business property. Eastern money in
record-breaking amounts has been
pouring Into the state for Investment
in timber lands and farms. As a i-r
suit of all this activity, the banks of
the state hold more money than in
any previous March, and the growth
and development of the city and state
are based on a rn nm n i A ri
stantial foundation than ever before.
inese are the conditions which now
obtain with practical v th
portation facilities that we enjoyed
when our prosperity went into eclipse
about fifteen years ago. But today
we are on the eve of greater develop
ment in our transDortation faoliiHoo
than has ever been experienced by
any w estern community. The North
Bank road, Dre-emlnentiv the crr-t-ataat
factor in the coming change, will be
completed to Spokane within a very
short time, and will throw open to
Portland an immense new territory.
The Oregon Electric is making a large
area of the richest portion of the Wil
lamette Valley a suburb of Portland.
The Harriman system and the United
Railways are both pushing construc
tion on lines to Tillamook, and the
Harriman system, with surveys per
fected md money available, awaits
only the approval of the Government
to open up that long-neglected and
wonderfully rich Central flmrnn
gion, with a water-level line up the
jjescnutea uorge.
These are only a few of the more
Important Industrial
which are responsible for the greatest
prosperity that Portland has ever
known. In their wake comes n. lnni?
line of smaller enterprises which in
tne aggregate will combine to make
Portland a mighty city and tho me
tropolis of a land of riches. New rec
ords are now being established in
nearly all lines of Industry, but they
will seem insignificant bv
with those which are to come.
CHEER AMID DIRE PROPHECY.
About two weeks arn nH v.
earth was prophesied by Professor
t-ercivai jjowell, who said an "un
known dark planet" will collide with
our sun. He intimated that tho vio
lence of the compact would wreck our
soiar system, or so badly alter it as to
terminate life on the earth. This Is
not a new nroDhcirv. nnr even an im
probable one, to persons who have ob
served the laws of cosmic process.
The catastrophe Is probably so far dis
tant. In h
as to be beyond human concern, since
wnen it comes the earth may have
passed Its teeming time and be child
less and forlorn.
Professor Lowell said that the col
lision would be foreseen fourteen
years. He meant, provided there shall
be human intelligence here to watch
for it. There certainly has been no
such disaster since life began. The
life period of the earth Is such a small
fraction of the earth's
chance of a solar wreck during that
period is perhaps infinitesimal. The
time interval, visible to man in the
past and the future of th nh i
perhaps but as a moment in compari
son wun tne duration of the nni9p
system, or even of the earth itself:
and again, tho space occupied by the
solar system, apparently so vast, is but
as a pinpoint compared with nhmim.
space, from which Lowell's "unknown
aark planet" la to dash upon us.
The matter to be borne In mind is
that while in the outcome of an incon
ceivable length of time the earth and
the solar system are to perish, many
an eon may pass before that result, af
ter life shall have disan nearer! Thin
Is not a happy thought for those guess-
ers wno tninit lire's place on the earth
Is unique and probably without paral
lel, nor for many of the students of
Alfred Russell Wallace, whose "Man's
Place in the Universe" comes pretty
near the special creation theory.
It is quite probable that Professor
Lowell in his lecture In Boston two
weeks ago was speaking in terms of
astronomy and other science, where
the end of the earth Is discussed in
cold-blooded fashion. However, as a
matter of fact, the scientists don't
know any more about the end of the
earth than the humble street-sweeper,
and they are aware of their ignor
ance. Just like the humblest, they are
in the presence of that old query:
"Canst thou by searching And out
God? Canst thou find out the Al
mighty unto perfection? It is high
as heaven; what canst thou do?
Ueeper than hell: what canst thou
know?"
Our sun may in some distant eon
butt into an unseen planet or star or
into a shining one. If the mau r.r
I nelgUbor eh&lX Ue great enough, the
I whole solar svstem will be rhsnii
When we consider that life on this
earth Is delicately poised on the ex
isting conditions of light and heat of
the sun, we understand that any con
siderable change on the sun. or even
minute change, would bring about im
mense, alterations in the life environ
ments of the earth. But if the earth
shall be cold and waste by that time,
as it promises to be. what's the worry?
Sir John Herschel says of the sun. It Is
"the almoner of the Almighty, the
delegated dispenser to us of light and
warmth, the immediate source of all
our comforts, and indeed of the very
possibility of our existence." Perhaps
when it shall become time for the col
lision the sun will be so cold and
worn out that it will need to be
warmed up by the Impact. So let's
be cheerful about It.
There Is no good reason why the
Port of Portland should build a. tug
boat for either bar or river. There
are more river boats already available
than are needed, and with the disap
pearance of the sailing vessels, bar
tugs already built can be chartered or
purchased at much less than the cost
of building. If, however, the Port of
Portland Is to add a fleet of expensive
tugboats to the useless pleasure
launch and the ancient pilot schooner,
it would seem that tho money ought
to be spent Is a local shipyard in
stead of sending the work away to
California. Portland builders had the
lowest bid for constructing the Seattle
flreboat a short time ago, but no one
had the pleasure of witnessing a. Se
attle flreboat building In a Portland
yard, nor will such a performance ever
take place. If this money must be
spent for boats that are not needed,
we should endeavor to spend It at
home, unless there is a decided ad
vantage in awarding the contract else
where. One week ago today the Govern
ment crop report gave the wheat mar
ket a good, hard shove down the -toboggan,
and, before the decline was
checked, the fortunate "shorts" had
profits of from 5 to 6 cents per bushel
to their credit. Before the week ended
nearly all of the lost ground was re
gained and the markets closed strong
under the influence of bullish statis
tics on quantities on passage and
world's shipments. The figures on the
American visible supply will be await
ed with considerable interest today,
and, if there Is any dependence to be
placed on the Government figures on
wheat in farmers' hands east of the
Rocky Mountains, the "visible" should
show a heavy Increase, followed by
lower prices. If the Government fig
ures for the rest of the United States
were as far wrong as they were for
the Pacific Coast States, there will be
a decrease in the visible and higher
prices.
Dispatches from North Yakima say
that hopgrowers there are undecided
whether to continue digging out their
hop roots and go into some other line
of industry or take chances on the
future of hopgrowing. A long term
of experience shows that the hop In
dustry is a speculative one. The man
who hits the markets right gets rich
rapidly. He who misses, goes down
in a hurry. On an average it Is prob
able that dairymen make a success In
a larger number of cases than do hop
growers, but they work" harder for
their money and. when they do suc
ceed, seldom make so much money in
so short a time. Hopgrowing is largely
speculative. Nothing is more of a.
"sure thing" than dairying.
Friday's dispatches announced that
on conclusion of his South African
hunt ex-President Roosevelt would go
to Nova Scotia and hunt moose. . Sat
urday's news conveyed the intelligence
that he would visit Northwest Canada
and hunt musk ox and polar bear.
He is already scheduled for a boar
hunt in the Black Forest with Em
peror William, and by the time the
returns are all In there will hardly be
many open dates betweea now and the
time he may again take up the hunt
for votes. For variety, after he re
duces the animal census in the Dark
Continent, he might visit some of the
dry counties in Oregon and hunt blind
pigs, which are said to he increasing
rapidly In number.
The latest dream of the Inventor is
another device to do away with news
paper composition. The typewriter
whacks the story into a specially pre
pared matrix paper, which is turned
over to the stereotyper, who prepares
a plate, which Is made up into forms
the usual way. The project is imprac
ticable. It would, of necessity, in
crease the size of newspapers, which
are now large enough, with a tendency
to grow larger and unwieldy. These
visionaries may as Well realize that
the linotype machine will retain for
many years its position aa the acme
of progress in printing.
The number of Japanese in the
United States decreased 94 last month.
The number will decrease much more,
rapidly when the employers of the
United States cease employing Japs,
and they will cease whenever white
labor is .willing and ready to do the
work required. The chief reason for
employment of the Japs in California
orchards is that sufficient and reliable
white labor cannot be had during the
harvest season.
Perhaps Mr. Harriman demands 4
per cent guarantee for his proposed
Eastern Oregon railroad after behold
ing the wonderful finance of the por
tage. The Oregon Legislators are true
patriots: they will not bo frightened
out of taking all the time they need
to repair their blunders.
Great Britain Is to spend $15,000,000
for new fighting machines during the
coming year. The dove of peace is
flying high.
Taxpayers who complain about
taxes should save their breath until
the state goes into the railroad busi
ness. A profile of the new Secretary of
War indicates he will run his depart
ment if there is anything in physiog
nomy. That white wife of Jack Johnson
will be his Delilah, and he will vanish
from the public gaze.
Still are they trying to find twelve
simple-minded men to till that Cal
houn Jury.
The Oregon spirit will not down.
Some folks are sighing Xor rain.
WHAT GOOD 1HOM THE NORMALS
Here la the Case Clearly Stated By
Some One W ho Kaowi.
Condon Times.
The Valy Record, published at Ash
land, has been generally circulated
around Condon recently. This paper
contains a number of articles roasting
the Legislature In general and Senator
Bowerman In particular because of the
opposition in the Senate which resulted
In the Normal Schools not receiving any
appropriation at the last session of the
Legislature.
If this paper is being sent here with
an Idea of injuring Bowerman the pur
pose haa miscarried, for at least nine
tenths of the people In this part of the
state are strongly opposed to all of the
present normal schools and have ex
pressed themselves In highest terms of
commendation for the work performed
by our member of the Senate in the
interest of the taxpayers by assisting
in cutting off those so-called normal
schools and saving to the taxpayers of
the state nearly $320,000.
The appropriation asked for by the
schools passed by the House of Repre
aentatlvea and defeated In the Senate,
would have entailed a coat of more than
$500 per atudent each year. When we
take Into coaalderatloa the fart that
cm thai tea per cent, and probably not
more thaa Ire per rent of the peraou
who tmenate fron the annul schools
are teaching; and that only a a mall p.
eeat of those who attend the aehoola
ever arraduate. It win be aeea that It
costs the taxpayers Cram 10,000 to
920,000 to educate one normal school
teacher who actually teaches.
When we take Into consideration' the
further fact that a great number, and
in fact a very large per cent of the
common schools in the more sparsely
settled counties In the state are unable
to maintain a school for more than
three months in the year and that the
state and counties are expending less
than $20 per year for each student Ju
the public schools and that a very large
number of the children of the state
are of necessity denied the benefits of
even a common school education and
the money which would go far toward
giving them such an education haa in
the past been wasted upon these so
called normal schools. It will be under
stood why such a very large per cent
of tho people throughout the state con
sider any appropriation for the normal
schools as unwarranted and unjustifi
able. All of the studies taught la the nor
mal schools, except Theory and Prar
tlce of TeachJnsT, are taught In the
county hla-h schools, which are now
maintained by the counties, and none
of the normal schools has ever been
in any sense of the word normal schools,
but were, in fact, merely local high
schools maintained at the expense of
the state for the benefit of some small
town, which otherwise would have no
excuse for existing. If there was ever
any reason why the taxpayers' money
should be wasted by the hundreds of
thousands of dollars for the benefit of
some country village where theretofore
goose feathers, and chlttem bark were
legal tender and a. pound roll of butter
its principal circulating medium, we
have never heard the reason stated.
It has been repeatedly charged, and
to our knowledge, never denied, that
Gilliam County has never had more
than three or four successful teachers
who were graduates from any Oregon
normal school and so long as the state
pursued a policy of spending $10,000 or
more in educating a normal school
teacher and less than $20 per year foe
the education of a scholar in the pub
lic schools, our public schools were un
able to pay salaries sufficient to main
tain a school for the proper length of
time in a year or a salary sufficient to
command a competent teacher. The
large majority of our citizens secure
all of their education in public schools,
and for that reason It is for the best
Interests of tho state and of the great
est number of citizens that the pub
lic schools be made as nearly perfect
as Is possible, and to our mind, it would
be radically wrong for the state to
further squander the taxpayers' money
by the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars when the beneficiaries are a few
lodging-house keepers, tradesmen and
real estate owners in small villages
which would be unheard of were It
not for some political deal pulled off
years ago.
It Is a fact well known to the icen
ernl public that every normal school In
the state was established la the nrst
Instance, not In the Interest of the pub
lic, not for the public jcood. not for any
benefit that would accrue to the school
system of the state, but because there
by the political Interests of certain per
sons would be benefited, and the tax
payers have, for 15 years, been paying;
the bills and recelvtuic practically ao
returns.
Two Views of Senator Kulton.
Harney County News (Frank Davey),
March 12.
Senator Kulton has
not assisted his
friends to believe
that he possesses
the very best men
tal qualifications for
an Important judge
ship, by the fight he
has kept up against
the confirmation of
J. C. Young as Post
master of Portland.
If there is to he a
second FVderal Judge
in OrfRon and the
state be not divided
so as to make the
eastern half of the
state a district hy
Itself. President Taft
coudd not do better
thnn to appoint Hon.
Charles W. Fulton
to the place. Mr.
Fulton Is well versed
His last stand in. in the law. ho ha
Congress on this the poise and dignity
questlon causes men
to wonder whether
lie could resist the
temptation to take
reprisals from the
bench on supposed
or real political ene
mies. The News is
sorry to see such
bitterness displayed.
belonging to such a
position, he Is thor
oughly honest and
fearless, and with
him on the bench the
probability is the
state would be here
after spared the
presence of Francis
J. Heney.
Knar! nc Smashes Shovel Pansei
Man.
Philadelphia Record.
Michael Fl uney. a Beading Railroad
employe. In stepping out of the way
of a freight train, was struck by the
pilot of a fast express train on the
other track, which ripped ' Off a piece
of his coat and smashed a shovel he was
carrying, but Fluney escaped any in
jury. Stepchildren Spoil Love's Dream.
New York Press.
A woman In New York City com
plained to a Police Magistrate that her
husband had deceived her by Maying
when he married he had only two step
children, but . she ' discovered he had
nine.
Groom of K2 and Brltle of 7f.
Indianapolis News.
George. W. Jones, aged 82. and Cor
nelia C. Grove, aged 70. got a license to
bo married at Bedford, IncJ-
A. PLEA FOR ONE! UNITED STATES.
Bnt In Acrualnr Westerners of Earotlnm
Writer Dodjces Ilia Own Medicine.
ASTORIA. Or.. March 13. (To the
Editor.) Why- is It that many Western
newspapers are criticising the South
erners and the manner in which the
latter treat the negroes? The criticism
in last Sunday's Oregonian on the
Southerners was unfair, both in refer
ence to the negro and to the writers
of the South, as to the latter always
getting unreasonable when they write
about the Southern people and their
sensibilities. I have traveled all over
the United states, and nowhere have I
met people with finer sensibilities than
people In tho .Southern States. Any
o,fi correct when he writes that
our Southern people are refined and
as a whole, are elegant people and are
The writer has found them to have a
Til"""" ot Integrity.
Talk about egotism! The Westerners
Spates notlVM ot the United
miH,rer,CI?CV T''Oreconian's state
ment that It hopes President Taft wIM
Tow1 SU,h ut of ll attitude
toward the negroes, I also hope that
President Taft will bring about more
South. Let the South and the negro
alone, and I am sure there win be
more tranquility on both sides.
. J"0" 'Vtarner would only sweep
the dirt from your own doors you
Z?. ,haTe. an you could attend to
without giving attention to the South
'I7ler; 1 rr to the Jap question. If
The Oregonian Is really anxious to
bring about a feeling of one united
people, start now. Rut let the South
alone, also the nesro question. South
erners do treat the negroes better than
IhfJvVr eated clwhe. I really
think Mr. Taft will bring about a bet
ter feeling down there than ther has
ever been before, although Mr. Roose
velt has done a. great deal towards this
end.
I wish that the people of the Unite,!
States would forget that there is such
a thing as North. East, South or Wet
and discontinue criticism on "sections. '
e should treat each other both In. the
newspapers and elsewhere as one
united people, and one great Nation.
K. SHIELDS.
OREGON'S Clr-WIISNixo APPLES.
Prise-takers at National Apple Show.
Spokaae, All tirowa at Hood Hirer.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. March 13. (To
the Editor.) I wish to correct a state
ment made by Tom Richardson in Tin
Orewonlan of last Thursday in regard
to the cup which was recently pre
sented to the Hood River Commercial
Club for the exhibit of apples from this
district at the National Apple Show
and which it presented to the Portland
Commercial t:iuh. The statement by
Mr. Richardson that the apples that
won the cup were not all grown at
Hood River. Is a mistake. This was
probably unintentional on his part, and
In Justice to the growers of the apples
here. I am making this correction.
The exhibit consisted of 84 boxes of
apples grown at Hood River by K. 1L
Shepard. J. L. Carter. L. E. Clark' H
R. Albee. N. C. Evans. C. Dethman. Wil
liam Ehrck and John Ilakkel. These
comprised tho entire prize-winning dis
play, and no apples from any other
part of the state were in It. The action
of the Hood River Commercial Club, in
turning the cup over to the Portland
orfranlzatlon was due to the fact that
it took the Initiative and bore the ex
pense In sending the display to Spokane
where it was exhibited as the Oreon
exhibit. It was for this reason that
the cup was turned over to the parent
oi-Ka.niz.iUon of the stato, which, it was
thought, was Its proper custodian.
W. 11. WALTON.
Secretary Hood Jtlver Commercial Club.
AS OTHKIIS SEE THE LEUISLATIRK
Baker City 1 lerald.
No one can tell Just what glaring
blunders of the last Legislature the
day may bring forth.
Woodburn Independent.
Comment Is unnecessary. ' The peo
ple understand the situation, but fear
the precedent of establishing a legis
lative rectirier.
Pendleton Tribune.
Governor Benson 1h desirous of hav
ing a short session of the Legislature
this week. He deserves some praise
for his wishes.
Baker City Democrat.
Oregon's Incompetents must go into
legislative session again to remedy
their bungling work. And all this at
the expense of the already overbur
dened taxpayers. (
Cottajre drove Western Oregon.
The legislators have a chance to "do
themselves proud" by making the
meeting short anil to the point, or they
can see-saw. "chew the rajr" and make
the state treasury look like 30 cents.
WVlch will they do?
Grants Pass Observer.
The extra session and whatever cost
it may Incur, is the result' of tho
stupidity of the Legislature in. over
looking the final passaite of an appro
priation for state institutions that is
considered urgent. The people are
arr.il.l of this extra session of irre
sponslbles. Dallas Itcmizer.
It is claimed that the session will be
only for the purpose called and that
the business can be transacted in two
or three days. This we seriously
doubt, as it Is a pretty hard thing to
choke off the average legislator from
talking on the different subjects that
will bo presented.
Jefferson Review.
We've Rot to have that special ses
sion Inflicted on us. Benson says so.
It will bceln next Mondav. an.l n,
Lord only knows how long it will last
and what it will do. There should be a
'"s appropriation made for an addition
io me asylum, ror a whole lot of tax
payers are liable to go crazy.
Gervals Star.
Would It not be advisable to act n
the vetoed hills of Governor Chamber
lain.' it would seem so. In thn firt
pHce there Is no valid reason for not
doing so. and In the second place this
Legislature Is more competent to act
than will be the legislature of the fu
ture. It will aid the future meeting
Just so much and clear the calendar of
worn. Among the vetowd measures
are many that are meritorious.
Albany Herald.
T-! 1 . . .. . 1 .
w kuiii ine memoers ot
the Legislature. voluntarily given.
mo tuniining or tne work to
w.c i"3iiiK oi ine necessary appro
priation bill, and the remedying the
defects in elk protection bill and the
tax commission measure, in the spe
cial session to convene next Monday.
It remains to be seen if those pledges
will be observed; it perhaps would
have been mora secure to have had
some kind of statement signed up.
Corvaliis Republican.
Governor Benson doesn't intend to
have any "monkey business." When
the session is convened the boys must
"do business" and do It quickly, and
they mubt not do anything except at
tend to the buslne.-a for which the
body is convened. Looks as though
the new Governor has the necessary
backbone, as it seems that he intends
to Governor, He's all JAere.-
MR, DrXnVAT TO MR. BEAN.;
Oae More Caustle Communication on
the Sabject of State Prlntlnc
SALEM, March 13. (To the Editor.
Something must be forgiven a lcs
Islator who is suffering the chncrin.
having his pet measure rejected. - ?
1 pass over a number of the misstate
ments of fact in Represent-tive L. K.
Bean's recent communication about my
self and the states printing. Tut two
of his misstatements are so grossiv Rt
variance with fact as to' require notice.
The first of Mr. Bean s misrepresenta
tions Is his assertion that the !.. to
revise and lower rates of printing "win
nnt tin i . . .
uai -M r. lunlvay claims it
will." and that ".Mr. l.ur.iway knows
It will make no reduction whatever in
the Job printing, and that is whore tin
large rrofit of the printer is made."
Here Mr. Bean shows the same crass
Ignorance as well as ih same vgotisai
that murked his course in tho Lpi:!i
turc. Ho knows nothing of j.rinl::
and yet makes absolutely f;i!,. m..i.-.
monts with a hardihood tha- i- mn'ti
Irtg. The jobwork. especially, will Ji:c.v
great reductions under the fi'ir and
reasonable bill which passed tho Sen
ate by 23 ayes and 6 nays, and whi. :i
waa later concurred in by the House,
after favorable report (3 to 1) by a
conference commltt.e of the two bodi. s.
and became a law In spite of Mr. Hean
hysterical effort to "lay It on the table"
after its passage (when he should hav
moved for reconsideration If he wished
to defeat the measure).
Under the new law a large part of
the jobwork will be done at less rates
lhan commercial printers charge for
like work, especially throuirh the use of
olght-polnt in lieu of "slx-polnt" and
the cutting of the rate of press wort
from 55 cents to 40 cents. ,om card
Jobs and a number of others of one
token" or less will show- an Increase,
of 10 cents each, but tne total of ti e
Increases of this character will n..t
reach $100 In two vcars. and tho oe
creasrs will offset this manv. m:.r
tlmes over; while the new section m:k
Iiir It the state expert's dutv to pen
alize tho State Printer. i:p to So per
cent on work done contrarv to law. will
prevent any subseouent Stato Prlnte
from attain Indulging In the crafMnir
that I have uncovered and stopped dur
ing my timo in office.
Mr. Bean knows more about timber
land grubbing than printing, and 1 e
doubtless could. If he w-ou'd. enl:c!-te:i
the public as to methods of "nenulrln tr
title" to thousands of aires of tVe
forest-covered public domain. Were I
simply my desire to "crt sufficiently
rich to retire" I should have rmr.!iv, .1
some conscienceless lawyer to seen...
llle the title to two or three thousand
ncres of the people's timber lani f.-.p
a fraction of its value. Not until Vr.
Rean shows up the sharp practices ' -i
limber land Krabhinir. as I have tt.o
abuses In prlntlnir. will he be entitle. 1
to receive credit for sincerity 1
professed desire to "serve the people"
Mr. Hean s second cross misstatement
of fact is the following:
The hod- of men to be rt evrr M- T'!":
way hv the provision of 7n MM ieclu iot
htmelf. n I se no Jutt.-e In' the Ftnteni. .u
thnt he tin to he n-- rontrel ovir th
rrlntlnir ..trice Mv b.U further p-"vt-'.-l
that the Smto Printer should h.ive
tro over the printing n'JUW. emn'ov of
the mechanics ami liinori-r--. tth fie r;:'-t
to djKcharxe the nnrne at his ple-i-mro.
'Tis hard not to apply the "shorter
and UKller word" to these hnld asser
tions by Mr. Hean. The provisions ho
now seeks to claim for "his bill" am
from the substitute bill prepareil by
three committees, snd these fair pro
visions were forced Into the bill by
Campbell. iMmlek. Hushes. Orion. . .
bott and otiiers. over the strenuous ob
jection of l!ean ami his adhere;.;.
When Bean audaciously claims credit
for provisions that he opposed to tbo
best of his ability, he ols ,,p new
stnndards of Inveracity and Impudence
The Hean bill sought to oust a con
stitutional ofrlccr elected by the people
and to confiscate his plant; to put tho.
prlntlnc Into the control of men know
ing nothing about it; to create a printing-
board and leave the printer off it;
to hold tile printer In bonds for the
conduct of the office, over which In
had no control, but to require neither
bonds nor responsibility from thoo
set up In authority over him; to deprlvo
the State Printer of power to emplov
his printing force or curtail the cost
of binding and ruling, as I have be.-u
doing; to make it easy and convenient
for concerns selling suprip.es to unite
In spoliation of the state. If anv-r.
cares to verify this summary of' tho
provisions of Mr. Roan's biil I shall tio
glad, upon request, to forward a eop
of the delectable. measure. together
with a copy of the report which I sub
mitted to the Legislature.
Mr. Renn's attempt to reflect upon
my conduct of the printing office will
only amuse the many members of tho
legislature who visited the office nr.. I
learned how the former schemes for
"grafting" have been supersede.) by
plain business methods. The informa
tion Mr. Bean afreet to ask is fur
nished In the report I submitted to the
Legislature- In that report 1 Invit. 1
ami requested examination of the oft'ic-.
Also I personally invited Mr. Kcan t.
examine my conduct of the office. Mr.
Rean carefully remained away. He un
doubtedly felt the better qualified t t
misrepresent the office If ho knew
nothing about It.
Again. T Invite and challenge Investi
gation or the printing during my term,
and If I can get the chance I shall
demonstrate to any legally constituted
body what a choice candidate for tl e
Ananias Club a timber-land grahb, r
Is when he uses the term "ij-aft" In
connection with my management of the
state's printing.
The svstem of "piece work" for do
ing public printing has been shame
fully abused in Oregon. No doubt of
that. I have shown It up. fu: it ha
never been so bad as the prof!"--..!.,
system that Mr. Hean seeks to s. ; c .
In this state. Now. under the consti
tutional amendment relating to print
ing the rates of pay may be rhanged
from time to time to suit carving con
ditions. Just as the Legislature I,.t
done. Rut under the 1:ean method w-o
shall have an Intricate business hmdlcit
under "stato control" ty politician',
with abundance of Idlers and loafers
on the payrolls, as In California and
other states where the method nrcv.-aits
with no end of graft and scandal and
constantly growing extravagance.
Now that the Tcgl.-laturo has passed
a law. along lines I recommended, to
prevent recurrence of the nbuses thrt
formerly prevailed. It wol nP folly to
adopt the most wasteful and unsr;.
factory method of doing public print
ing that grafters have vet dvied
Willis s. prxnvAY.
A Deputy Game AVarden la Around.
R'APPOOSK. Or.. March IS. (To t'
Kdltor.) I notice in a recent lsne o'
The Oregonian a communication sign-M
by one K. A. Parsons in which he state
that he has been Informed by a "busi
ness man" that, daily, deer are brin-'
run by dogs at Scappoose. "
Now Mr. Parsons. I win state fo
your information that whoever tVs
"business man" is that his statement U
incorrect and I hope that you cannot
personally believe what he savs to be
true. As a matter of fact, all this talk
Is for political reasons by a few so-e-heads"
here in Scappoose who hope by
making such assertions to throw into
disrepute Mr. Stevenson and his depute
here tnat by so doing they themselves
may have a chance at the deputvsl-.lp.
Rm ,,vln ln Scappoose and if Mr.
Business Man" will take tho troublo
to give me his "proof." I will unrtertike
to disprove his statement. If Mr. Par
sons really wishes the game protected
and is not talking for political effect.
I ask the name of this "business man."
so that I may personally interview him.
JAM US D. ll'KAV,
v,i v Zorutjr Gams Warden