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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1911)
TITE MOnXINO OREGOXIAN-, MONDAY, 3IAY 22, 1911. roBTLAD. ORFOOX. 2',r-4 at Portlar. Orasao, Postafflce as sac.-i;uca KitM-lavarlaMy ta Aru IBT XA1L) r'.-'Ty. Sir,, tnWa44. en. Tr , r--;r s ,.-3: i, iariiMi-j. noD'hi .... , ?1 turning prosperity, and If the country rain enjoys big crops, such as are now promised in most of the states. It will be a very difficult matter to stay the return of confidence, which of course means the return of prosperity. Tht re is an abundance of Idle money In U of the country's banking center, acj all that the owners are waiting f-r before Investing it ts the assurance that th !r investments will be protect- k . - , - I . I T .. 1 1 2 - i en '7 juh iwa ana rejju'.uuus. j . a . i - Lni'frxrlv. nn aii'nnrf itt the rOH stnntly Increasing cost of operation. higher tuxes and other burdens, with I It. -4 d i, !ari-j tr.raa I l,. frur-i.r ir'-Ii.i.l. on, moata.... X -7- hou? in !r on v ..-.... . I 7. Wtt.lLit Run lii . RontM. 2 I 4 IT. .:'"104t u34F. m-Tlta.... 1.71 I . wltftout i-unaay. ec, moata. ...... I . ." -I J"J" " U') out compensating Increase In revenues, ana air. one jr. ......... as I hut the strong upward movement In prices last week points to better days IfiT CahKlER) S-jna, lB-:u !.-t. ena year . . .11 Snail., tne:.j4. on, ainota Hw l Kami, So4 P ,t"r:co mna7 --tr. .t ?r. ortlvr or r,-'-al ch" fl "it-it tici feaaa. ecarrp,. eo 1 of curr.nr, ar, at l., ,-a-1r', r..a p,tf?!,:e ad!rt ta fu-L la-ld:n count, aaJ a'.ala. "sataaa stato i m ra- I cat: IS to j, i c-nts; it to raa, J 1 ' o o.a. 4 cata, r,,.sa : ra-.a, I" axra r)a-la-M OfTlrra V.-- O"-1'- .N.r iir.. Hrun.atc. tutld.BS. Cnl- ah t ad. ORTIi.M The Mexiran revolution, so lightly fsarded ty President Itaa a few months ago. biased Into real war In a c rnparatlvrly brtef period, and tha fl.-.ai arrangement for r r.c Is fallow Ir.g quickly the practical denionstra- kkcallld to. nut iho.m. onirr. Few petitions urging one man's candidacy for office that have had Who J magnitude of the Simon petitions have evrr been filed anywhere. The Ore g nlan today publishes the list of s. nature, nearly S00 In all. In this list will be found the nanus of men In all honorable occupations repre sentatives In fact of that portion of tha public that Is concerned In tha wel fare of the community at large. These 000 names could not have been secured within three days by the effort of any single Interest political, commercial, professional or corporate. They represent a spontaneous uprising In behalf of a clean city government a government free from class en tanglements and Immoral Influences. ti -na a hu ll tha rebels have made of tieir strength. The outcome of the I Mr. Simon could not. as a patriotic clt- Ir uble is further evidence of the folly Urn. Ignore the appeal voiced therein. w -.!. n this country would have exhlb-lt-d had our "Jingoea" demonstrated s f'l'-t.nt strength to InvelKle the Gov. ernment Inta Intervening In the "fam ily ri" among our neighbors on the e..uth. The poaltion of the United :.its In such cl'se proximity to a p'ii,.r-ho:iae around a hlch fire brands -were being thrown reckWaly w i.. somea hat ileiicute. but nt no time d irlrg the trouble sa thre anything th it mould warrant this country tak Ii.g a hand In the proceeding. Any rulrr of Mexico has his hands full, and If Mad.ro can keep the new g ivernment which he will manage In satisfactory operation one-half as long a., 1'ias has ruled he will he doln VifT well. Thre was m strtklr.ij slinl Urlty In the trouble norr ending and a ioth-r revolution w'ntch took place In that unhappy country about 9 years Sico. hen I'rident Coraor.fort In 1j7 tuf.i his edict against the Catholic Orgy, confiscating their property and j IrflRttng other liidlgnillrs on them. t!e revolutionist under Mlramon de p ed him and soon afterwards sent hs succeor. F.entto Juarex. fleeing to the mountains. The situation be came so serious that then, as now, r ting and bloodshed wtre In evidence throughout the country. While Amer- 1 in Ir.teresU. which were suffering ty reason of the trouble, were small In comparison with th-vo of the pri-s- -t time, ttry were sufficient to call f-om 'resident Hucharan a message t Congress in Iecember, 13a?, la i hl-h he practically urged Interven- n. "Is U posalble. said Fresidvnt J uchanan In hU message, "that such untry aa this can be given up to anarchy and ruin without an effort Iro.-n any quarter for its rescue' and I s safety? Will the commercial na tions of the world which have so many Interests connected with It remain wholly Indtff-rent to such a result? Can the United States especially. w hlch ought to share most largely In l:s commercial Intercourse, allow their 1-nmedtate neighbor thus to destroy l;s-'.f and Injure them?" After reMewinc the situation at leng-h. President Huchanan arrived at the conclusion that "the mist accrpt aMe aid least difficult mode of ac romplishlrg the object wtil be to act In concert with that government. Their consent and their aid might. I V. -!tre. be obtained, and If not, our i M:.-:lon to protect our own citizens li trielr Just rights secured by treaty vo ild not be the les, Imperative." The recommendatione of President Huchanan rr not carried out far .rough to establish ar.y precedents. fr shortly afterward the Civil War lie Is now an avowed candidate for Mayor. The recall Is here typified In a new form. Mr. Simon la not to be recalled from office, but from the pri vate life to which he desired to retire. A candidate, named under such con ditions. U best fitted for an office that may soon be virtually abolished. There can be no doubt of Mr. Simon s s.ncerity on tho commission issue. He Is the candidate of 009, not of Mr. Pirnon. unit the 6U00 want the com mission form of government. If elect ed. It may be relied upon that he will further In every way the commlwlon plan, regardless of lis effect on his tenure of office. WHAT A UUr.NO SAW. Woodrow Wilson found some thlntts In Oregon that astonished him. Thut November ballot that looked like an enlarged page of a city directory, for example. ite frankly acknowledged that It was a product of the Oregon system "which he could not commend. Nobody commends It. Everybody agrees that it Is a gross wrong that the voter should be showered with candidates and Initiative measures at every election. It Is a feature of the Oregon atem that must be cor rected. If mischief and confusion are not to result. Ir. Wilson highly approves the short ballot. So do all discriminating advocates of ballot reform. But we cannot have the short ballot and the unregulated and miscellaneous Initia tive, set with a hair-trigger and ready for action in any one's hands. That Is obvious. Governor Wilson makes It so. The address of Governor Wilson at the Armory Friday night waa a lu minous production. It sustained the great reputation of the Governor for clear analysis, fine understanding, convincing statement and reasonable opinion. It was an Intelligent and wholesome criticism of the Oregon system from a friend and champion who would not permit his eyes to be blinded to Its defects. ing the fact that water rates are effec tive only where water carriers can load and discharge, demanded the same rates the railroads were forced to make In Portland, Puget Sound and other Coast ports to meet waier com petition. Meanwhile splendid steam freighters had supplanted the old sail ing vessels on the round-the-Horn route, the Tehuantepec Railroad was nearly ready for business, and the Panama route, controlled by the rail roads, through sheer necessity was forced to lower rates and Improve service by way of Panama. The d mand of iSpokane for terminal rates, in the face of such natural conditions. was so remarkably unfair that Port land promptly resisted It. At every meeting held by the Interstate Com merce Commission in Spokane and elsewhere, when the subject was nn der consideration, Portland business men were present In large numbers. and for years The Orcgonlan ha urged upon the Puget Pound papers and Puget Sound people the necessity of taking some action In the matter. These appeals, through all the years Portland has been lighting the case al most single-handed, have fallen on deaf ears In Seattle and Tacoma, but from the present wall of the Seattle Times It la apparent that the Puget Sound cities have at Inst awakened to the fact that their jobbing trade Is In peril. It Is a hopeful sign, this awak ening In Seattle. After Transportation Manager Mears. who was Imported from Portland by the Seattle, business Interests for the purpose of showing them the way, has drilled his juvenile tradesmen through the primary lessons In the relation of freight rates to city building, we may expect an outburst of enthusiasm that may take at least a portion of the burden of fighting the Spokane interests off the shoulders of Portland. The capacity of the water carriers on the Panama and Tehuantepec routes has quadrupled in the past three years. Is still inadequate to han dle the business, but Is rapidly being Increased. Water transportation, with the Panama Canal completion still three years In the future, is today the controlling factor In all ratemakir.g west of the Hocky Mountains. Every city on the Paciilc Coast has a mutual Interest with Portland in righting any attempt to nullify the advantages given us by the Almighty. If the Siamese twin bill came up to the President, he might sign it, and then they would be doubly damned. In short, they all know that Taft has courage and that he la not playlpg politics in this reciprocity business. If he were, he would not have called the extra session and put the Democrats in position to manufacture campaign material In the House: he would not have told the delegation of politician farmers that he was going to stand by reciprocity even If he did lose their votes by it. He is convinced that the great mass of the people are with him ELECTION TASK FOR CITY VOTERS Review Gfvea of the Twenty-Four Measures Submitted to the Voters Approval or Rejections la the Municipal Election of June B. for As the result of court decisions, three measures supposed not to have a suffi cient number of names to secure them places on the ballot will go before the votocsi In the city election June 5, mak ing Si measures In all to be voted on. The Oregonian herewith gives a brief Advertising Talks Br William C Freeman. on this question, and he is standing j "lew of each measure. For the pur pose of space economy, the official bal lot titles are not given In full: pat on It. He knows that only the organized few of certain special Inter ests appear at the hearings now being held by the Senate finance committee; that the unorganized many who repre sent the general interest never appear at such hearings. He will stand by reciprocity, but he will not let the Senate draw him Into a game with 1 II 11 f ' 0 Hie. TTa n.flt Anil mntntx mratv . foil the scheming Senators of both I f.",""8 -5r'i.sre, wfuldtbe?onit,tho Charter amendment submitted by the Council, authorizing a bond issue of $1,400,000 for the construction of a high bridge across the Willamette river from Meade street, on the West Side, to Ells worth street, on the East Side. The proposed bridge would be located about 15 blocks south of the Hawthorne limits of the city harbor, and high enough to permit the passage of river steamers without moving the draw span in ordinary stages of water. The lng the Senate to separate the Siamese parties. Taft has the courage to defeat this plot, just as he has had courage In i construction of the bridge would not several other crisea. Even some of ( shorten the distance between the est hla hltinriera ahowtxl ro,r hot h I 'oe Business center ana me ooum tast la profiting by his experience aa he ; goes alone; and he makes fewer blun ders. He will find the means of forc- twlns. The necessity of concurrent fishing laws in Oregon and Washington is again shown in the arrest by Wash ington officer of an Oregon fisher man operating under an Oregon li cense. W 1111am Starr, the man under arrest, was seining on the Oregon side of the boundary line recently estab lished by the United States Supreme Court decision, and his arrest under the circumstances seems like an ab surdity. The difficulty in these con flicting laws over the same body of water is further intensified by the fact that largo quantities of fish caught on Side. The principal matters to be con sidered by the voters, therefore, are the extent of congestion on the existing brldces and the advisability of adding at this time to the bonded Indebtedness. 100 Tes. 101 No. Charter amendment proposed by the City Council creating a firemen's pen sion and relief fund. The City of Portland now has a po lice and Ore department relief fund. Into which the members of both depart ments pay a monthly tax of 60 cents each. This fund cannot be applied to the relief of widows or other dependent near relations In, the event cf the death of one who contributes to the fund. The proposed amendment creates a separate fireman's fund, into which the members of the department will pay 1 per cent of their salaries in lieu of a the Oregon side of the liver are sold stated sum monthly, or about double see the system Improved and made permanent. That Is the only tenable position for anyone to take. We shall hop that Governor Wil son's Armory address, printed In The Oregonian Saturday, has been thor oughly read and digested throughout Oregon. ANC1KNT WAR RFNEH'E1. The war for the holy places has been renewed. In the middle ages th Christian crusaders sought to reclaim the land of the Elble with sword lance and battle-ax. Now they bribe the Turkish Governor and the Cufto diun of the mosque, whose salaries are probably several months In arrears, with British gold to allow them to dig up tho precious relics of the Israelite and early Christians. When the odor of ranctity once at taches to a place It cannot be shake off. Jerusalem and I'm surroundln hills first acquired sanctity when th tabernacle was set up there and the ark of the covenant wns placed there In. Holiness was permanently fixed there w hen Solomon built his temple. It acquired a new meaning when Jesu preached, suffered and died there. Tra dilion says that so determined were the Jews to save their sacred vessel; and the ark from the profane touch of the Romans that they burled these relics In caves In the hills when Tltu and his sold. ere were about to take the city. When the Mohammedans conquered Palestine, they made sacred to Ma homet, by building their mosques thereon, the same places which the He wants to j Jews and Christians had held most SI-OKAM RATE AWAKXNS) EATTl.E. There are compensating features growing out of the present dullness In Seattle. The business of selling tld foot has a miners hare shrunk so mai mey are taken from the owners in much les ah-orbed the a t-ntlon of thts country -pokes" of the Alask so thoroughly that the ic. c.n prob- r in m h t.Bm th owners in much le ed in mm h the earne . nmn w form.rIy neCessary. No nt. Dcn wirea in av ' , . , ... . . i were aiiowtm 10 -ai.-viiiu vr-ut;aii. uio The Mexican people W. .TT, ,T, To rr mosu. itself until they found W to ha. a change of I 8afU'', Scat:e h,a ..J ! some of the sacred vessels of the Jews. 1-m was permitted to solve f.seir. This . .,., .. i time than was formerly necessary. Not marner It has been Ived In the I . "w . : . . Irene r.t case. were determlr. rulers regardless of the cost. It Is for tunate for the United States that they secure. this chance without this coun try being dract'il Into the controversy. holy. Thus they not only secured strlk lng sites but celebrated the triumph of their faith. Unbelievers were for bidden to enter the mosques, hence the Christians and Jews were shut out. Hut the Mohammedan conscience Is accommodating and. If the unbe licver happened to have money and be willing to part with liberal sums, he was admitted to meditate upon the holy structures which once had stood on the same site. But the English Giaour were not content with thU; they wished to re cover the treasure which was burled beneath the mosque and they offered the Turkish oftlclals bribes beyond the power of Oriental man to resist. They were allowed to excavate beneath the Kt.TVR.vt m. rRowrriuTT. contemplate a gatherlnr menace which for years has been threatening her excellent jobbing trade. Tho Times made the discovery and In the course cf a double-column editorial announces It In this paragraph: T-. trial of tho romrtalnt cf tho trt- Trfo New Tork stock market hus f port.tia t,uu of in, -' ,c,L,'r',rr t-eea engaged In one of Its cld-tlme booms s:nci the handing dov n of the trust decisions, and most of the lead ing rallroid and Industrial shares have K-en in bl demand at higher prices than have been quoted for many n-r.ths. Whatever criticism may be oir-red cf Wall street and Its roeth-c-U. the cold fact remains that It Is trie financial nerve center cf the New W orl 1. To a degree the prosperity "or adversity cf th rest of the country can be quite accurately gaused by the ertlmL-m or pessimism prevailing on that great financial thoroughfare. It is d.rTlcult to ascertain to what extent tfte e.fcct of these trust de cisions has been overestimated. There Is alwas a certain element In Wall street tnat makes Its living In the stock maraet by studiously bearing the prices of stock. After the slump a Mch began several months ago, when railroad earnings showed such heavy decreases, had spent Its force, there was not even any encouragement for the short sellers. The market has for weeks been drifting along in the dol drums without enough movement either way to attract the attention of buyers or sellers. For nearly all of this Inactivity the excuse was offered that the pending trust decisions made It too hazardous to trade. Foreign carltsl. which always shows a prefer ence for American securities when we do rot attempt to depreciate them ourselves, also became timid and Joined In the waiting game. It now re.-nair.s to be seen whether this quick rewound from the depths is cf a per manent nature. The trust decisions are not the only features In which tinr.ld carttal might find an excuse for lr.g dcrmant. The probable action -f Congress on the tariff, on recipro- l:y. and on other measures may now be selected as an object for alarm, and, tinder the skillful manipulation of the c-ror.lc bears. It may become a potent factor In the market. If this shoulJ fail to arrest the strong upward movement that has fol-1-taed the banishment of the trut de cision bugbear, thtre remains the next Presidential election to fall back" on. But eventually we shall steer eo fair past these obstructions to re- i t-.- tli. Kallaar t'otr.n-l.!- c.-n-a. ha. d:.'-l-.l in an a'-n-,: ."artll:: Biinn.r th, b-ti-.j, rooitt-in tt-.t fVatoo i.l -.orfT ffrJ It.e.f In. If It, ci!ia.r., do not In; n-tat-;y awake and t,ur t ti.m.v., ana f.imt.r avt. Th. wh".e trar.ftit.rtaUt'O m:n of rat -rra'lrs weat of Cnua,o la lu a ,:at, of tavolat.on. The attempt to put Seattle and other Coast cities In the "serious po sition." which the Times has Ju.-t dis covered as among the possibilities, be gan In Spokane nearly twenty years ago. The tramp steamer had not be come a factor In the Pacific Coast carrying trade, the Tehuantepec route was still a "visionary project" and the Panama rotrte, under the exclusive domination of the railroads, cut but little figure as a rate regulator, when Spokane began this "terminal rate" acitation very early In the "nineties." There was, however, an unending pro cession of sailing vessels beating down the Atlantic round the Horn and up the Pacific with full cargoes of East ern merchandise which were laid down on the docks of Portland. Seat tle and San Francisco at so much lower rates than were quoted by the railroads that the Coast merchants could pay a heavy local rate Into the Interior and successfully compete with the Inland cltlea dependent exclusively on the expensive rail haul. Spokane's original attempt to nullify the advantage of water transportation was vigorously resl.-ted by Tortland business Interests, but the railroads, preferring reace to a P.ijht, regardless cf the merits of the controversy, effect ed a compromise by which a special trade zone was carved out for Spo kane and from which Coast jobbers mere barred on a number of staples which Spokane was permitted to Im port at a special freight rate. Port lund. receiving no assistance whatever from Seattle or Tacoma In the original fK-ht and enjoying great expansion In other directions, paid but little atten tion to this unjust and unwarranted preference that was shown Spokane. For more than ten years Spokane, as a reu!t of these preferential rates pre sented by the railroads, grew like mag'c. no other city on the Coast ap proaching her In the percentage of gain In the Jobbing trade. About six years ago, Spokane, lgnor- Protest of the Mohammedan popula tion grew almost to a riot and the ex cavators were forced to fly. Now the outcry hns reached the Turkish capital and has become so loud that the fate of the cabinet Is in doubt and the officials at Jerusalem axe likely to lose their official heads. All this trouble comes from the placing of the tabernacle of the Israel ites on a certain spot thousands of years ago. The place became sacred to three creeds and this led to the shedding of oceans of blood In fight ing for possession of Jerusalem and the writing of thousands of books In telling about It. Truly, a vast amount of the history of man centers in Je rusalem and Its surrounding hills. TACT AND SIAMESE TARIFF TWINS. It is a very pretty scheme that some of the Democratic Senators have con cocted for forcing President Taft to approve their addition to the free list of the tariff, but It leaves out of the calculation one Important factor Mr. Taffs courage. These Senators imagine that Mr. Taft la so deeply Interested in the adoption of the reciprocity agreement with Canada that, if the bill enacting It should hare attached to It the free list Just passed by the House, the President would sign It regardless of any objection he might have to the free lisa They count on the assist ance of some Insurgent Republicans who really are of he same opinion as the Democrats thut reciprocity is a good thing provided certain commodi ties are put on the free Hat as com pensation to the farmers for the losses they are supposed to suffer through the agreement. They also count on the aid of some regular Republicans who oppose reciprocity but dare not vote against It and would vote to tie the two measures together la the hope that. In order to kill one Siamese twin, the President will- kill both. Thus they expect to make him the scape goat for their own misdeeds and to deprive their constituents of the bene fits of reciprocity without Incurring the odium of having voted against It. Put all these various classes of Senators are afraid of something. The Democrats know that reciprocity is Indorsed by their party and they fear that any action of theirs which endan gers it would bring a storm about their ears. The Insurgents are In much the same fix. The regular Re publicans are desperately afraid that, i or packed In Washington and an equal or perhaps greater number of Wash ngion fish are sold and packed in Oregonl Ample restrictions, operative concurrently in the two states and en forced with impartiality, would be of much greater value to the salmon In dustry of the two states than the pres ent ridiculous system, which not only makes noediess expense for both states, but also falls far short of supplying tho protection needed by the Industry. The death at Mexico City last Mon day of Dr. Jose Madrlz, ex-presldent of Nicaragua, calls to mind the un easiness of the head that wears a crown in Central America, and also the rapidity with which revolutions follow each other. It Is but little more than two years since the deposed Zelaya named Dr. Madrlz as his suc cessor. While he was never formally recognized In the United States, he retained a precarious hold on his seat until August. 1910, when he waa over thrown by Estrada. The latter made an even poorer showing than that of Madrlz as a ruler In turbulent Nicar agua, for Estrada himself is a refugee from the land he iwrested from Madrlz and is expected daily at Mexico City. Again comes the story that the chil dren of Alfonso XIII and Queen Vic toria of Spain are defective In speech, hearing and one of them, at least, in mental capacity. This, It Is said. Is duo to tho grave weaknesses which the King Inherited from hie dissolute father and which, but for the most heroic treatment, would have de stroyed him In his childhood. The case la one wherein the father "having eaten some grapes, the children's teeth are set on ed?e." Another aged millionaire has been disabused of the, idea that a young woman of less than half hla years "married him for himself alone." Dr. Munyon, of patent medicine fame. Is the man in the case this time. The lure of the stage has proved stronger than the love that he flattered him self he had inspired In tbe young woman no doubt much to the vain old fellow's astonishment. Anerrt discussion of tithing In the Epworth League meeting the other day. Investigation of affairs of people who contributed a tenth of the Income to work of the Lord, Including char itable as well as religious, seems to show their worldly condition to be as prosperous as their anticipations of future 'welfare are bright. To state It brletly and commercially: Tithing pays. Everybody Is glad to see Blnger Hermann back to Oregon and restored to health. His days of usefulness are not ended, by any means, but he de nies the rumor that he will re-enter politics. Tet many will recall his spec tacular manner of "coming back" nearly a decade ago and view the com ing years with expectancy. A "no seat, no fare" law will in crease use of the telephone, for many man will be compelled to send to wife or other boss the proper excuse for delay In getting to dinner or work. However, there will be humor In the the preset t monthly contribution. It also provides for a tax levy of .20 -of 1 mill, or 5 cents on each $1000 of as sessed valuation, for the benefit of the fund. Provision Is made for retirement at half pay of any members who may serve continuously for 25 years, or members reaching the age of 50 years after 20 years of continuous service; also for the pensioning, at half the member's salary, of his family, or In the event he leaves no wife or children, his parents. If dependent upon htm for support. The amendment will divide equally between the proposed firemen' and police pension funds the J10.000 now In the present fund. The tax levy is to cease whenever ,300,000 Is accu mulated In the fund. 104 Yes. 105 No. Charter amendment proposed by the Council levying a tax not to exceed mill, to be credited to the street clean lncr and sprinkling fund. Other than permitting the Increasing of the levy above the present limit of 7 mills for all purposes, the chief fea ture of this amendment is the privilege given the city of paying for street cleaning and sprinkling out of one pockot Instead of anctber. 102 Tes. 103 No. Charter amendment proposed by the City Council Increasing the salary of the City Attorney from ,2400 to ,3ouo per year. The amendment raises the salary of the City Attorney to a figure more in keeping with the Importance and responsibility of his work. 106 Yes. 107 No. Charter amendment submitted by the City Council creating a police depart ment pension and relief fund. This measure is similar to that creat ing a separate firemen's relief and pen sion fund. The chief difference is in the retirement features. Under Its provisions member of the police aepartment may retire who has served as an active member for 20 years; or. II ne is to years of age, he may retire, if he has served In the aggregate 20 years as an active member. Half pay Is granted on retirement. 108 Yes. 109 No. Charter amendment submitted by the City Council authorizing a bond Issue of 1200.000 for the acquisition oi a site and the construction of A municipal Jail, municipal court, police headquar ters and emergency ajiospitai. The building contemplated by this amendment is to take the place of the crowded and unsanitary old police sta tlon. It is one of the real needs of the city and the only argument that could be made against the approval of the measure would be the state of the city's indebtedness. 110 Yes. 111 No. Charter amendment submitted by the Citv Council authorizing a bond issue of ,260.000 for the acquisition of Coun cil Crest. The city will undoubtedly sooner or later find it . advisable to purchase Council Crest. Desire not to further increase the city's Indebtedness at this time may deter many from voting for the' measure, but If the purchase is de ferred the city will probably be com pelled to pay a higher price. 112 Yes. 113 No. present salary of the City Engineer Is not commensurate with his responsibil ities and duties nor with the size and importance of the city. 120 Yes. 121 No. Charter amendment submitted by the Council creating a pension and relief fund for members of tlie street clean ing department. This measure Is Identical In terms with that creating a pension and re lief fund for the fire department. Un like the lire and police departments, I the street cleaning department now has no relief fund. 122 Yes. 123 No. Charter amendment submitted by th Council requiring the submission of two or more sets of plans and specifications eacn specifying a different kind of pipe, whenever sewer construction is con templated. The amendment permits a wider scope of competition In sewer contracts and will make it possible to end th practically exclusive use of terra cotta pipe m Portland. 124 Yes. 126 No. Ordinance proposed by initiative pe tition Known as the no seat no fare measure. The measure prohibits the admission to streetcars during morning and even ing rush hours of persons for whom there is not seating capacity. Th ordinance would be wholly lmpractlca ble of enforcement and deals with mat ters that should be left to the Public Service Commission. 12 Yes. 127 No. Ordinance proposed by initiative pe titlon levying a gross revenue tax of gas companies. The measure would probably result In a material Increase In, the taxes th Gas Company of Portland now pays. 12S Yes, 129 No. Ordinance proposed by initiative pe tition levying a gross earnings tax of i per cent on electric lighting and service companies. Identical with preceding measure ex cept as to the utility affected. 130 Yes. 131 No. Charter amendment submitted by the Council providing that hereafter all gulches and ravines shall be filled and troubles of the belated shopjjer, el- j p Under tne present system fills are bowed aside In a crowd that possesses i Dairt tor by the property benefited or that property within a locally pre scribed district. The foregoing amend ment would place the burden of fill construction on the- city at large, but w-ould apply only to fills costing in ex cess of (16.000. 114 Yes. 115 No. no chivalry. The Initiative was used by the an cient English Kings, says Dr. Wood row Wilson, and the recall by the Romans, says a Democratic Congress man. There is notning new. But is the government of the English Kings nd of the untutored Romans good enough for us? According to dispatches, the Los Angeles "hot stuff" colony Is feeling the pruning-knife. Some of them. In cluding Jack Cudahys former wife, were notified to hike, and obeyed. The deeds of the Idle rich disgrace the Nation. If all mothers-in-law were like the lderly widow who put her son-in-law Jail for sixty days for habitual drunkenness, half the saloons w-ould soon eo out of business. Double-tracking and straightening the road between Portland and Oregon City will eliminate an anomaly of longer distance by rail than by water The Oregon Naval Reserve is mak ing so much fuss in Itself, people begin to wonder what a naval reserve Is for. When buying mail-order real es tate, the buyer would better beware. Diplomacy and Lying. Chicago News. Little Willie Say, pa, what's a diplo mat? Pa A diplomat, my son, is a person who can prove a man is a liar without calling him one. Charter amendment submitted by the Council authorizing a bond issue of 1400,000 for purchase of site for and paying cost of construction and main tenance of a publlo auditorium. The need for a public auditorium is urgent in Portland. Its erection would make possible the securing of many conventions that now go elsewhere. The people would probably receive an indirect return greater than the cost of the enterprise. 116 Yes. 117 No. Charter amendment proposed by the Council authorizing- a bond issue of $75,000 for the establishment of a mu nicipal garbage collection system. The object of this measure is to au thorize the city to substitute for the present private, unsystematic and un sanitary garbage collection system one of its own. The bonding plan pro vldss for a collection rate that will pay the interest on the bonds and establish a sinking fund. The city simply util izes its credit to establish the Initial accessories, but Imposes no new bur dens on the taxpayers thereby. 118 Yes. 119 No. Charter amendment submitted by the Council increasing the City Engineer's salary from $2400 to not less than $3000. The proposed amendment fixes only the minimum salary that may be paid the Engineer and permits tne Council to fix an amount in excess thereof. The Charter amendment proposed by in itlative petition creating a Public Serv ice Commission. This measure Is the substitute of fered by disappointed politicians for tne MalarKey State Publlo Service Commission measure. The charter amendment proposed Is weak and In effective and contains numerous catchy provisions designed to entrap the unwary voter. For examples, the measure seeks to Instruct the county grand Jury, the Circuit Court, the Gov ernor and the State Supreme Court, aaas to tne criminal laws oi the state, changes the term period of the Mult nomah Circuit Court and attempts to extend Jurisdiction of a Portland board to the furthermost corners of the state, none of which does the City of Port land have the power to do. 132 Yes. 133 No. Charter amendment proposed bv in Itiative petition authorizing a bond is sue of $1,000,000 for construction and maintenance of a municipal paving plant. This measure is ill-advised because of the large bond issue Involved. The proposed . amendment places no re strictions upon the sum that may be expended for the paving plant, nor does It provide for payment of interest or accumulation of sinking fund out of the earnings of the plant. The act would encourage extravagance and provide for an unnecessarily large un- dertaKlng. 134 Yes. 133 No. Ordinance proposed by Initiative pe tition divesting the city of power to dispose of waterfront property within 2000 feet of navigable water or other city property within 1000 feet of any terminal yara or depot. This measure would prevent the city not only from giving away but from selling any city property that might be more valuable to the community at large as wen as to tne company de siring It If used for railway instead of municipal purposes. It would ef fectually stop Portland's growth as a railway terminal. 136 Yes. 137 No. Billboard ordinance proposed by in itiative petition. This ordinance limits the size and lo cation of billboards and the character of their construction and specifies the materials tha,t may be used. The or dinance also contains an inhibition against spite fences. In general the measure is a worthy one, although the provision requiring consent of prop erty owners on both sides of the street to the erection of any signboard is probably unconstitutional. The inva lidity of this section would not affect the other portions of the measure. 133 Yes. i 13 Charter amendment proposed by in itiative petition requiring competition in bids for paving. The amendment requires specifica tions and estimates embracing two or more kinds of paving material, one of which must be non-patented. The Council is given authority to determine the character of the improvement. The amendment also reduces the proportion or property owners required to sigm an Improvement remonstrance from 80 to 60 per cent. 140 Yes. 141 No. Kererenaum oraerea ty petition on an ordinance vacating 100 feet each of Oregon and Adams streets for foun dations for the highway deck of the Steel bridge. This Is a hold-up of an attempt to convert into tbe only use they are fit for the two short ends of streets lying between a high bluff and the river bank. 142 Yes. . 143 No. Referendum ordered by petition on an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of banners in public places. While this is, in a way, a companion of the anti-boycott measure, it also prohibits the parading of advertising signs. 144 Tes. 145 No. Referendum ordered by petition on an ordinance declaring labor or trade boycotting methods, picketing, etc-, un lawfuL This and the preceding referendum were Invoked by the labor organiza tions. 146 Yes. 147 No. An advertising agency man. a news paper special representative and an advertising man (the writer) met tne other day at the suggestion ot tne agency man to talk over an advertis ing plan which he had submitted to a corporation. The agency man had suggested to the president of a corporation an ad vertising plan, a good one. which ap pealed strongly to Mm. He finally rejected it, however, on the theory that If he started to adver tise, be vronld have to use every paper In the city, and he could not set apart that much money for advertising. When the agent asked why he thought this was necessary, the presi dent said: If vre dldnt oae every paper, those we left off the lUt would Immediately denounce and criticise us." This Idea of giving advertising to newspapers to stop eriticlam is absurd 'n these enlightened days. Newspapers criticise things that deserve criticism, as a matter of duty to the publlo not because they do not get advertising from the firm they criticise. If a corporation starts to advertise with the idea that by doing so. It re strains papers from publishing facta about It, then It had better not adver tise at all. But If It wants to advertise, the way to do It Is to go at It in a businesslike manner, just as any Individual or mer chant would go at It viz.. select inch t papers as are read by the people the corporation waati to reach and in accordance with the amount It Is de cided to spend. Then, if the campaign proves suc cessful, add other papers from time to time. If I were running a corporation, I would reprint every crltlefsm in an ad. vertiaement, and alongside of the criti cism I would print my answer thereto! then let the people judge. The people can be depended upon to decide fairly between unjust criti cism and facts and corporations can reach the people through the adver tising columns of the dally newspaper. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright. 10H. by peorga Matthaw Adams.) " If your liver doesn't work, you won't. Few men can look themselves over and give their faults a fair hearing. Blush as much as you please, you all have kin you don't like. The wickedness of mules is a stand ing Joke, and you are always hearing them abused. Almost every day you see an old reliable family horse run ning away, usually with ecreaming women and children in the buggy, but did you ever see a mule running away? Did you ever personally know a mule to kick any one? The fact Is, the mule works hard on light feed, and gets nothing but abuse. A woman Isn't really pleased unless she feels that she must kiss some one. and do it right away. You are compelled to accept so many explanations that are not satisfactory. How old must a woman be before she is able to act as her own chaperon? ' "When a man begins to fall over the dog, and gets cross about it, that la a sign of age. Nearly every old-time druggist does . good deal of "doctoring" for friends and acquaintances. 'At any rate," said a woman, as she looked at three children under four years of age, all crying as loud ae they could, "I am not an old maid." When a thing shauld be done, too many people believe "the city," or "the business men," should do 1. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian, May 22, 1861. The attaches of The Oregonian office have to acknowledge the compliment bestowed on them by the presentation on the part of several ladles of thie city of a beautiful American flag. From a private letter from Walla Walla we learn that gold dust is large ly in circulation at that place. Where it is dug Is the next question. Salem. May 19. The Union Club met again last Thursday evening. The Courthouse was filled by a dense crowd who listened with much enthu- iasm to eloquent speeches from Messrs. G. Wilson, Ben Hayden. of Polk. Judge Boise and Hon. L. F. Grover. We noticed several droves of cattle passing through town within the last week, seeking pasture on the moun tains and plains beyond thei Cascade Mountains. - Broonu and Phyaleal Culture. Christian Register. Said the lovely girl: "Physical cul ture, pa. Is perfectly fine. To develop the arms, I grasp this rod by one end and move It slowly from right to left." "Well, well!" exclaimed her father, "what won't science discover? If that rod bad some broomcorn on the other end of it you'd be sweeping." A Man "Who Shouldn't Run Motor-Cars. Baltimore Evening Sun. The man who drinks or has been drinking has no place In the automo bile. A drunken chauffeur or one ever so slightly under the influence of drink is a danger to the community. He Is the driver of 40 or 60 horses horses that become wild, unsteady, terrifying, if his hand falters or his mind wanders, and go dashing down the streets leav ing destruction in their path. The man who drinks has no right to run a car, whether he be the hired chauffeur or the owner of the machine. "THE LAUGH OP A CHILD." I am old and wrinkled and gray Often I watch sweet children at play, And I think of days, in far-off clime. When I was a child In olden time. I am old and wrinkled and gray But the laugh of a child is sweeter, I say. Than the tones of a harp, or a lute's soft lay, Or the chimes of bells at the close of day. I am old and wrinkled and gray And I hare traveled. Ah, many a day Through valleys gay, where sweet flow ers lay, By roads, in vale, by hill all the way. But the laugh of a child is sweeter, I say. Than the sweetest of flowers that bloom in May. I am old and wrinkled and gray I've passed o'er many a stoney way Mid shrieks of shells and victors' yells. And shocks of arms and war's grim hells I am old and wrinkled and gray. Soon I shall hear the pale horse neigh. Its rider is Death, he will bear ma away. I know not where, but need I care. Till the call of the Child on the Judg ment day? W. W. LANGHORNE. Chehalls, Wash.