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A TIDAL WATT IX ISli?
- The New York World on paper does
"i not make out a strong case before the
electoral college for the Democratic
. Presidential nominee of 1912. In
' deed, ths New York Democratic news
paper la madly discouraged over the
outlook. The horoscope does not fore-
cast Democratic victory without New
"fork and other -well-nigh. Impossible
nates. Those optimistic seers who
have been Indulging In political crys-
rTfal-gazlng- and have been able to see
V" nothing but a continuous procession
of Democratic states marching under
the Democratic banner, are evidently
i" fated for a rude bumping. There Is
great , difference between dress-pa-';
rade and actual conflict. Mr. Bryan
I has heretofore won several victories
J the year before the battle. Governor
'Wilson and Governor Harmon and
J ex-Governor Folk and other possible
candidates might profit by his
example.
But let us understand the World's
I reasons for Its remarkable pessimism.
' The New Tork Democratic paper has
'been making bitter war n Tammany
-rad has been endeavoring to show
that continued dominance by that
" corrupt organization spells ruin for
J" the Democracy. "Does Tammany
'want Taft re-elected?" cries the
( 'World. The only way to beat Taft.
' In the opinion of the New York news
J raper. Is to beat Tammany. The New
'York Democracy without Tammany
J jwould be a lame affair. The New
I York Democracy with Tammany Is a
y .sordid and mercenary outfit. The
dilemma Is a sorry one.
The World proves that nothing but
. tidal wave win elect the Democratic
: .nominee. If the strong Republican
"states of the Middle West stand by
'The RepubUcan candidate, the cause
of the Democratic nominee Is hope
J "leas, unless New York goes Demo
v tratic. But even with New York and
the solid South the Democratic can
didate must have Ohio. New Jersey.
Indiana and Missouri, or a group of
states equally powerful. If New York
should be lost to the Democrats the
tandldata would then have to carry
-New Jersey, Ohio. Indiana. California,
.- West Virginia. Colorado. Missouri.
"Nebraska. New Mexico and Arizona.
..r The World's calculations are based on
.the assumption that the two terri
tories will be admitted to the Cnlon.
' It will be seen that there are many
mountains for the Democratic noml
r.e to climb and he may stall on any
V one of them.
Take Ohio, for example. If Taft
r--pha.ll be nominated, and Harmon shall
il'jiot he nominated. Taft v.111 carry
; Ohio. If he cannot, he will be the
.-.worst beaten Republican candidate
' since Fremont. Ohio, then, will have
: "to be eliminated from the World's list
of Democratic possibilities. But Illi
nois may be substituted. Can a Demo
r -crat carry "a state that usually gives
'from 100.900 to 100.000 Republican
plurality? If so, he will sweep many
j ,: other states heretofore regarded as
j safely Republican. If there Is doubt
a about Illinois, there la reason for un
r 'easiness about Pennsylvania; and no
txins has yet worried much about what
the great iron and coal state will do.
The chief hope of the Democracy
I tidal wave that will submerge
even thing. If there Is to be no tidal
f.t.wave there will be no Democratic
, triumph In 1912. Tidal waves, like
lhe wind, come and go as they will.
' " They know no rules, or periods. They
i.-"are due when they arrive. Possibly
x. the flood that leads on to Democratic
i.rtune will come In 1913. Then again
possibly not.
EXrXOITTNG Or .NTJUIBT WASTE LAJiD.
To the honor of the Chamber of
J'Cnmrnerce. the Commercial Club and
2 a?lher organizations of Portland it can
be said that In their work of ex
jololUng they have known no Indlvld
4 nal section of Oregon, but have
2 labored fnr the state In Its entirety.
? In the printed matter disseminated
t "they have given tha Snake River.
C Coos Bay. Astoria and every other
1 section Just as much attention as ths
p wr.lsmetts Valley or Portland.
"J This Is the wise course, for what
t ever helps the state at large, or any
portion of It. assists In building up,
rortland. The money for these ex
6 plottation purposes Is paid by Port
j land citizens, every dollar of It. but
w the donors are farseeing enougn to
know that their city ran beat be bene
fited by filling up the vacant places,
by gettlrg people to mske homes on
the unoccupied land.
There Is a work right at our doors,
however, which has been too long
naglected. and which now rails fr
united action, a wrk which msy seem
i like entering upon the duty of peopi
J Ing our very suburbs. It Is the clear-
Ing of and the locating of settlers
J opon the hundreds of thousands of
a acres of waste lands adjacent to the
i city.
Until a very recent date nobody had
a clear Idea as to how and at what
I cost these rut-ovfr and brush lands
Tou!d be made Into beautiful and pro
,Juctlve farms. There were no reliable
data to work upon. There was no
well-laid system to follow, there was
no one who knew what It would cost
or how long It would take to bring
!7,'thM lands under the plow. Any
k-vliumber of men could be secured to
1 Md on the making of cordwood, the
excavating and removing of earth or
the handling of rock, fnr all such
work has long been reduced to a
"'known and well-defined basis. But
' no man was willing to make anything
mors than a guess at the cost of land
7 Clearing. But the. doubts, difficulties
snd uncertainties are being removed.
' snd henceforth, or In the Immediate
fatur. thsre. wilt be a siem for this
clearing which will be Just as certain
and exact as any other contracting, a
i" system by which these lands caa be
placed in possession of occupants
ready for the plow at a known and
very low price.
The prime factor In this work Is the
. char-pltling system for the removal of
stumps. By this method tne cost or
such removal will be a known expense,
and so low that the owners will at
once find It uprofltable longer to al
low these lands, the very best In the
state, to remain useless and Idle.
Nothing at the present time Is of
more Importance to the city of Port
land than the rapid development of
this work, and as said at first. It
shows that the bodies mentioned are
undertaking a great public duty In
fostering this movement. In assisting
In putting land clearing on a fixed
commercial basis, in turning these
unproductive and waste lands Into
productive farms and prosperous
homes.
r-NiroitM DIVORCE uws.
The best opinion of the country de
mands uniformity In djvorce laws but
not excessive strictness. This la ap
parent from the replies which were
received to a questionnaire sent out
from New York to the Governors of
the states. The wish for more uni
formity Is unanimous but there seems
to have been few or no demands for
much more rigor.
It Is admitted by the Governors
that some states have divorce laws
which are too lax, while others are
too strict. What Is wanted by un
prejudiced students of the subject Is
legislation which shall .make the
status of a divorced couple Identical
throughout the Union. As things now
stand, a man may be forbidden by
the law to marry in New York, while
if he takes the trouble to cross the
ferry to New Jersey his nuptials will
be perfectly permissible. Colonel
Astor happens to be In this enjoyable
situation Just now as the public well
knows. A man who has been di
vorced and remarried may be a big
amist under the statutes of some
states and entirely Innocent In others.
This situation Is absurd. It would
not be tolerated If we were awake as
we ought to be to the proprieties of
life. At the coming conference of
Governors In Spring Lake. New Jer
sey, the subject of uniform divorce
legislation Is likely to be foremost In
the discussions. Some advocate Fed
eral action. Some think best to urge
each state to adopt a pre-arranged
system. It Is natural to suppose that
a Federal law would cost less effort
than Identical state legislation, but
the old notion of unconstitutionality
Intrudes here as It seems to even
where when progressive action Is de
sired. It Is objected that the general Gov
ernment has no authority In the prem
ises and perhaps It has not. In that
case we must wait upon the agree
ment of the states and the chances
are that we must wait a good while.
Unless Congress has authority to en
act a divorce law for the whole coun
try the chaos we have Is likely to
continue.
TIME FOR TIOX TO CO.
If the pure food disturbance In the
Agricultural Department should re
sult In the retirement of Secretary
Wilson under pressure. It would cause
no surprise and little regret. Wilson's
department has been . shaken by con
vulsions more than any other 'since
Secretary Meyer got a firm grip on
affairs In the Navy Department and
took things out of the hands of the
swivel chair mariners who had been
lording tt over the bureaus.
Wilson has been letting his subordi
nates run things Instead of running
them himself. He let Plnchot run the
Forestry Bureau until Plnchot ran
Into the President and was bowled
over. He has let McCabe and Dunlap
take the Chemistry Bureau, which
handles pure food cases, out of the
hands of Wiley and use their usurped
power to defeat the purposo of the
law.
There is one excuse for Wilson. His
department employs an unusually
large number of scientific specftllsts,
each of whom thinks hi own particu
lar 'ology Is the most Important
thing In the universe. They are usu
ally enthusiasts, but their devotion to
one particular science Is prone to
make them narrow and blind to all
other considerations than their sci
ence. A wise department head needs
to guide this enthusiasm, and check
without suppressing It. for It la a
valuable element In public work. He
needs to co-ordinate his corps of en
thusiasts that their rough corners
may not continually come into col
lision. To do this requires a combination
of firmness and diplomacy, of which
a knowledge of human nature la the
first requisite and an ability to con
trol men of strong convictions and
prejudices and much personal ambi
tion so that they will do good team
work. Experience has shown that in
this work Wilson has failed. He let
Plnchot get entirely out of hand and
the result was an explosion which
caused agitation injurious to the pub
lic service. He has allowed two of
Ms subordinates to carry on a con
temptible Intrigue against Wiley, one
or the most valuable men in his de
partment and thwart Wiley In carry
ing out a law which Is of vital im
portance to the public health.
One reason for this condition .may
be that the department haa outgrown
Wilson. Within recent years the
great work of forestry and meat In
spection has been added as well as
that of pure food Inquiry. When its
work was confined to Investigation of
field crops and orchards, hlss depart
ment was 1n his grasp, but he appears
to have confined his attention too
much to these oilglnal functions and
left the new work to his bureau
chiefs.
Secretary Wilson has won the dis
tinction of serving longer In the cabi
net than any other man. He has built
up his department until It rivals any
other In Importance. He has achieved
great success In many branches of Its
work. He should retire on his laurels
and give place to a younger and more
vigorous man.
Tacoma students of the University
of Washington have been asked, pre
sumably under authority of the re
gents, to nil out cards that the regis
trar ha sent them, giving their opin
ion unbissed, of course of ths value
as Instructors of the professors under
whom they took work Isst yesr. Now
let the masters beware! The pupils
are given the whip hand, and in view
of the disagreement In regard to the
Juxtaposition of the sorority and fra
ternity houses on the campus, they
will doubtless use the lash, metaphor
ically speaking, to their own satisfac
tion, at least. Time was but why In
dulge In retrospection? The methods
noted remind one forcibly of the disci
pline of the "Queen's Navee" as ex
ploited once upon a time on the stage
under the title "Her Majesty's Ship
Pinafore."
. NOTABI.E VISIT.
Prince Albert Edward of Wales will
visit the United States In the near fu
ture. The announcement recalls the
visit of his grandfather, the late King
Edward, then the stripling Prince of
Wales, to this country In 1860. He
who Is remembered In his later years
ss an obese man of more than three
score: rheumatic, short, stiff and of
unwieldy body whiskered and bald
was then a sprightly youth of eighteen,
boyish In appearance, of frank and
pleasing demeanor a well-bred lad
of distinguished British lineage, who
danced with the belles of Washington
and Newport, as pleased as they at the
opportunity to disport among them.
Time made conquest of the youth,
the gayety, the health and that Joy of
life which "writes Its music in the
major key." which were the attri
butes of Britain's heir at that time,
and so complete was the conquest of
time in these matters that it seems
scarcely possible that less than half a
century Intervened between the visit
of the smooth-faced stripling of 1860
and the passing of the grizzled mon
arch that he became before time had
ceased to play tricks with him. And
now comes, or will come, the grandson
of our erstwhile stripling guest also
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales', a
youth of eighteen. In training, as was
his grandfather, for a kingship. The
mutations of time, the fidelity with
which history repeats itself, are noted
in this second coming of a Prince of
Wales to our shores. The colonies
that his great-great-grandfather,
George III. held In so little esteem
that he could not hold them at all are
but dim pictures In history to the
young Prince. Grown into a great
Nation, they will inspire respect pos
sibly a shadow of regret for their loss
in the youth four generations re
moved from the events that severed
them from the British crown.
Be this as it may, we will all be
English for the time being in the wel
come that will be accorded to this heir
to the English throne, even while we
are Americans in our love of liberty
and of loyalty to the Republic which
grew upon the ruins of British rule W
"the brave days of old."
EFFICIENCY AND BCHOOIJIOfSES.
' The new doctrine of efficiency is
startllngly pervasive. It peers into
the most secret nooks and finds fault
with the most venerated arrange
ments. ' The tricks which the brick
layer learned at the Tower of Babel
and which he has practised ever since
without a thought that they could be
Improved upon, are pronounced ab
surdly faulty by our efficiency ex
perts. They teach the workman how
to double his tale of bricks without
Increasing the sum total of his toil.
Nothing could be more fascinating if
only tha pay doubled with the tale.
Even as It is, the employer experi
ences delight. But the doctrine of
efficiency does not stop with bricks.
It penetrates the precincts of the
railroad office and reveals waste
where economy had been supposed to
rule. It groans to see a church
which cost half a million dollars
standing Idle six days of the week and
used only for a little while on the
seventh. "Why not open the Protest
ant churches every day as the Catho
lic do theirs?" it critically asks.
The fault-finding spirit of efficiency
might perhaps admit some difficul
ties In the way of keeping the
churches open all the time, but It
condemns unsparingly the thriftless
management of our schoolhouses. It
particularly dislikes the modern meth
od of locking up the country school
house whenever class work Is not go
ing on. The employment of the rural
schoolhousc for book work and noth
ing else. Is a recent Innovation and
not a commendable one from the
point of - view of social economics.
Good management commands us to
make our Investments work all the
time If we can. The idea of erecting a
structure and letting it stand entirely
idle one-fourta of the year, while we
use It only a quarter of the day for
the rest of the year, la repugnant to
every principle of sound finance. It
outrages economy as much as it does
pure reason.
Most citizens of mature age can
remember a time when the country
schoolhouse was the social center of
the neighborhood. The spelling bee
was held there to the delight of all
the young people and their elders too.
It was the meotlng place of the old
fashioned debating club which called
out all the budding Websters and
gave them a chance to cultivate their
nascent powers. The wandering
preacher found a free forum in the
schoolhouse. no matter how unortho
dox his creed might be. and even the
political spellbinder was not unwel
come to its tallow dips and blazing
wood fire. Now all Is changed. Few
ever think of going to the school
house for a good time. Like Dante's
hell. It is a place of woe unmitigated.
The motto above its baleful door
might well be "Abandon hope."
What has brought about the lam
entable change we do not make
bold to try to say in one brief note.
The causes have been many but no
doubt race suicide Is the chief among
them. The use of the country school
house for miscellaneous social pur
poses has been abandoned because
those who want to resort to it have
disappeared. The children of most
country districts are but a melancholy
remnant of the vigorous band they
once were. Not enough of them re
main to enforce a demand for a com
mon meeting place. As soon as the
youth of the country reach years of
indiscretion they spread their wings
and fly away to .town, a Does the city
schoolhouse open its doors to receive
them of an evening and offer a whole
some substitute for the rursl amuse
ment they have left behind? Hardly.
The ordinary city schoolhouse would
be painfully astonished to see a mer
ry band of young people disporting
themselves In Its hallowed rooms.
Their elders prefer to let the young
people disport themselves In dance
halls and dubious theater.
Leaders of thought In this country
have not acquiesced In the shallow
dictum that the problem of the fu
ture Is the problem of the city. Many
of them believe that It Is the problem
of the country. Others take the
ground that In order to have a healthy
and prolific race of people In the
United States, we must first solve the
social problems of both city and
countn'. the one class being fully as
important as the other. Race suicide
In urban families Is a dreadful thing
to contemplate. Race suicide In the
Country I worse because It is more
unnatural. The conservative thought
of the Nation turns more and more
steadfastly to the problem of pre
venting it everywhere.
Most students confess that life must
be enjoyable, fairly easy and free
from the dread of poverty before In
telligent married couples can be ex
pected to rear large families of chil
dren. From this it follows pretty ob
viously that it Is folly to neglect any
means of lightening the circumstances
of the common man In city and coun
try. What everybody hungers and
thirsts for after the day's work la
over Is amusement. Some want intellectual-run,
some want bodily exer
cise, but the desire for diversion is
universal. This desire has a sound
economic basis because nature has
so ordered it that we can all work
better tomorrow if we play a little
before going to sleep tonight. But
solitary play Is unsatisfactory. To
produce its full benefit it must be so
cial. Scientists agree that one of the
prime needs of every community, both
In town and country. Is a place where
the people, young and old, can gather
as often as they wish for a good time.
Of course intellectual profit Is not ex
cluded, but amusement Is the main
purpose, for pleasure of the right
kind means health, good spirits, pros
perity and a high birth rate. Since
the natural place for these meetings
in the country Is the schoolhouse.
there is no more encouraging sign of
the times than the spreading disposi
tion to open these buildings to the
public for every legitimate purpose.
Country life has been sordid and
gloomy long enough. It is time that
the people began to use the means
they have at hand to make their daily
routine wholesomely cheerful.
Oregon furnishes two laudable ex
amples of self-help which are worthy
of general imitation. The Port of
Nehalem Is building a Jetty which will
deepen and straighten the channel of
Its harbor, having Issued bonds and
undertaken the work Itself without
awaiting Government aid. The set
tlers on the Upper Klamath irriga
tion project, weary of waiting for the
Government to take Its promised ac
tion, are organizing an irrigation dis
trict under Oregon law and propose to
do the work themselves. Their action
is as much a reflection on the exas
perating slowness of the Government,
as it is a credit to the energy and self
reliance of the people in each case.
If the Republic, Bethlehem and
Lackawanna Steel Companies should
merge. It would probably . be only a
preliminary to their absorption by the
trust. About 100 per cent water
would be injected into the stock when
the merger was effected and another
100 per cent when the trust took in
the merger.. This was the process
preliminary to the organization of the
trust. The Individual companies
were absorbed by several large com
panies and the large companies then
merged In the trust, water being added
at each stage of the process. The
consumer will pay always.
Two deaths from drowning were
added last Saturday to the long list
that has made sorrowful thcvacation
records for the present Summer. In
eaeh case the loss was to the com
munity as well as to the Immediate
families of the victims, both being
young men verging 'upon manhood.
The event in such cases is more than
an accident: It Is a calamity and Is
widely regretted. Though dictlnctly
preventable. It seems Impossible to
prevent these occurrences, since the
lure of the water In the Summer time
1 much stronger than the sugges
tions of prudence.
Hlllsboro citizens have resolved that
its sidewalks shall no longer be mud
ways In Winter and dustways In Sum
mer, and with this end In view have
undertaken the extensive construction
of cement sidewalks. The movement
is a voluntary one a novel feature in
such work. If It should extend to
some other Valley towns we could
name It would be duly appreciated by
more than the resident populations of
those communities.
The whole continent Is In an agony
of suspense on the question not
whether the Democrats or Taft will
win In 1912, nor whether the Panama
Canal will be finished by 1915, nor
whether a rival steel trust will be or
ganized, nor whether wheat will go up
or down, nor whether the Morocco af
fair will cause war but when and
where will Astor marry Madeleine
Force?
The man, drunk or sober, who can
beat out his own brains is the equal
of the one-armed man who cut off
his remaining hand with one blow of a
aword. So It may be worth while for
the Coroner to look Into the death of
that unfortunate man' In the Linnton
dungeon.
The indifference with which Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Geraghty show to the opin
ion of Newport and the bride's will
ingness to wash dishes and make her
own bed indicate a degree of common
sense which promises well for the suc
cess of the couple.
There are worse offenders than mo
tormen who speed their cars. Pedes
trians know where to expect the dan
ger and act accordingly. The great
est fear Is of the motorcycle, which
whizzes by like a crazy dragon fly.
Though the Prince of Wales and
Prince Frledrlch of Hohenzollern are
to be treated merely a naval officers,
society will surely find a way to pay
them homage as princes.
Should the Army be stationed near
the large cities and the officers live
In town, the social advantages of of
ficers' wives will be greatly enhanced.
Growers of hops in Lane County are
offering $1.25 per hundred for pick
ing, which is very well, but subject to
a rising labor market.
Simultaneously comes the news of
a heavy rainfall and another gold dis
covery. The more valuable Is easily
discovered.
In spending a million to remodel his
big house, John D. Rockefeller Is
making good use of his money.
Diaz at the tomb of Napoleon Is-as
spectacular as Mark Twain at the
grave of Adam.
Whose will be the distinction to be
picked up by the new fender?
Who will "own" the President when
he comes In October?
"Gleanings
of the Day
Thanks to the hot weather, an
American soda fountain has at least
been established In London and Is doing
a rushing business. Though on the
Strand in a big drugstore, it is kept
modestly In the back so that only the
diligent searchers may find. The foun
tain itself Is worthy of American tradi
tions, being a big, ornate thing in
silver, marble and onyx. Asked why
It should be placed away in the rear of
the store where it can't be seen, instead
of in the front, one of the English
clerks said quite Englishly:
"Oh, it might interfere with our drug
trade."
"But if you gave it a chance it might
become as important as your drug
trade, or at least would prove a valu
able advertisement to your place."
"It might become such a nuisance,"
was the final and decisive answer.
The hot weather of this Summer,
which has been as great in Europe as
in America, has caused scientists to
seek the explanation of death from
heat stroke. Dr. George Hirth, a
Munich specialist, attributes it to elec
trolytic disturbances due to the abstrac
tion of salt from the system. He says
that persons who perspire copiously,
especially those who perform heavy
physical labor In hot weather, may lose
In the course of a single day thousands
of grammes of moisture, containing
from two-thirds to four-fifths of 1
per cent of salt. He comes tr the con
clusion that the human body under
those conditions may lose as much as 30
grammes, and in extreme cases 40
grammes of salt a day. an amazing
quantity, which is not replaced In the
ordinary course by food. Drinking
large quantities of water is of no avail;
although It has this advantage, that
water attracts the remaining salt res
erves of the body and prevents thick
ening of the blood, which otherwise
would cause giddiness, the first warn
ing of Impending heat collapse.
The British colony of Victoria, Aus
tralia, has discovered that many per
sons buy methylated splrHs to drink In
place of intoxicating beverages. In
nH n ston the practice it will mix
.! nno ntr cent Of coal tar
naphtha in the spirits, which ' will
,v h mis nhlectionable, but will
not affect their value for industrial
or 'domestic purposes.
1 The ladies who wear sables may have
to pay more for them, for it is pro
posed to prohibit sable hunting It
Siberia for two years in ordl to pre
vent extermination of the animal.
New Zealand Is one of the great
sheep-growing countries of the world.
In 1910 It had 24.269,620 sheep, and
produced 192.822,002 pounds of wool In
1909. The colony exported in 1910 wool
to the value of $40,278,873; frozen meat,
chiefly mutton and lamb, $19,560,684;
tallow $3,674,22$; sheepskins $3,602,519.
A road which Is designed to form
part of a through road from the Coast
to the Alberta line is being built by
British Columbia from Wardner to the
boundary at the summit of the Rocky
Mountains in the Crows Nest Pass,
where It connects with the Alberta
road system. It Is 75 miles long. An
other trunk line is projected from some
point on the Canadian Pacific Railway,
east of the Rocky Mountains, to some
nnlnt nn the road already built up the
Vnntcnv and down the Columbia
Rivers, which is designed to form a
in una through the mountains which
will be of sufficiently easy grade for
automobile travel.
United States Coniuls In many coun
tries agree on the reasons why Ameri
can foreign trade has not made great
tr strides, though some express the
opinion by Implication, simply stating
what must be done to secure such
trade. The manufacturer Is warned
that It is waste of time and money to
seek trade in Brazil by catalogues or
correspondence; he must have direct
representation by putting a good man
In the field with enough capital to give
the business a fair trial. Such a man
must be willing to leave his own coun
try for a good salary and commission,
and may be hired Jointly by firms In
several non-competing lines. In Co
lombia and Ecuador American firms
put an obstacle In the way of business
by giving only 30 to 60 days' credit,
while German. English. French. Span
sh and Italian houses give four to
twelve months' time. This one fact
gives the bulk of foreign trade to
Europe. Merchants of Asuncion, Para
guay, deal with commission houses
which send salesmen with samples, and
the Importers give directions for pack
ing and shipping, which must be
scrupulously observed. The same con
ditions, exist in Venezuela. The mar
ket for American knit goods In China
has been largely lost through care
lessness in packing, ticketing, selection
of material and other details, with the
fatal result that the "chop," or brand,
has been given a bad name. A manu
facturer Is advised to give soma estab
lished house in Shangha1 or other
Chinese port a sale agency and to give
liberal advertising allowances and
credit, as do European exporters. No
attempt has been made by Americans
to enter the markets of India. Aus
tralia Is a liberal customer of , this
country.
How much Germane can do with lit
tle Is Illustrated by the case of Getsen
klrchen, a town In the Interior prov
ince of Westphalia, which has spent
$6,000,000 on harbor works and $1,500,
000 to attrp.ct new Industries. Thle
harbor Is merely on a canal which con
nects with the Rhine. Another town
called Neuss stopped Its decay and
made Itself a great industrial center
by borrowing $2,000,000 and converting
the River Erft into a deep canal to the
Rhine. It has built a harbor, attracted
40 factories and Increased Its popula
tion from 4600 to about 60,000. Dues
scldorf, Mannheim and Frankfort, all
Interior river cities, have spent large
eums on river Improvements.
Vast deposits of magnetic Iron in the
form of black sand have been discovered
tn New Zealand, and a New York firm
has obtained an option on one tract of
beach after making a teat. A syndicate
has obtained a large concession and
other Iron ore deposits have been die
covered. A resolution has just been
passed by the Trades and Labor .Federa
tion of New Zealand expressing the hope
that the New Zealand government will
take steps to nationalize the natural
Iron ore deposits of New Zealand and
work them itself Instead of permitting
outside capital to secure the profits.
HARD WORK TO ELECT DEMOCRAT
Campalgw of 1912 Is Yet o Be Wi
or Lost.
New York World (Dem.)
Assuming that Arizona and New
Mexico are admitted into the Union to
day, there will be, with the additional
members provided for In the reappor
tionment bill, 53i votes in the next
electoral college, an increase of 48.
The majority required to elect the
President in 1912 will be 266, as com
pared with 2.2 in 1908.
Mr. Taft had an electoral vote of
821. With the same states under the
reapportionment the Republicans would
gain 32 votes and the Bryan states ten
votes. The Republican vote by states
would be:
California ....
Connecticut ...
Delaware . . .
Idaho
Illinois . ..
Indiana .......
Iowa
Kansas .......
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Unnlan. ...
. 13'New Jeney 14
. 7New Tork 42
. 3 North Dakota ....
. 4Ohlo 23
. 29:Ore(fon 3
. 15!Pennylvanla 3
. 13 Rhode Island 3
. Id South Dakota ... B
. Sl.tah 4
2;Vermont 4
. ISIWeit VlrRlnia 8
. I5Wahinston 7
. 12' Wisconsin 13
. 11 Wyoming- 3
41 Total 353
New Hampshire.
The Bryan states would give the fol
lowing Democratic vote:
Alabama ...
. 12' Nevada 3
, OiNorth Carolina ... 12
. eokiahoma 1"
. 6 South Carolina.... 0
. 14iTennesee 12
. IS Texas 20
. 10 Virginia 12
, 10
8 Total ' 172
electoral college New
Georzta .
Kentucky .
Louisiana
Maryland .
Mississippi
X Ul A, Willi B1A WlUlllOUW . u . -J , a
of 42, will continue to hold the balance
of power between the leading parties
In campaigns less hopelessly one-sided
than the last. With New York's vote
either side may easily figure out a
majority.
The solid South has been broken since
1904. Having twice given her electoral
vote to Republican presidential candi
dates Missouri no longer can be placed
In the Southern column. Kentucky,
which has shifted in state elections,
and Maryland, which divided her vote
in 1908, the solid South has 155 votes.
To win, the next Democratic candidate
must have In addition to the South 111
votes. Carrying New York the Demo
crates could win with Ohio, New Jersey,
Indiana and "Missouri, a total of 112.
Illinois could be substituted for Ohio.
In place of either of these strong Re
publican states the Democrats could
elect with California, Colorado and
West Virginia or California and Ne
braska. Counting .New Mexico and
Arizona Democratic, with three votes
each, a successful combination could
be named with New York. New Jersey,
Indiana. Missouri. Nebraska. West Vir
ginia and Colorado. Montana with
one of the Dakotas could take the place
of any of the three small states.
But If President Taft holds New
York the Democratic problem will be
difficult. Assuming that Governor
Wilson will be the Democratic nominee,
we may concede him New Jersey.
Where would he get his majority? He
would have to carry New Jersey, Ohio.
Indiana, California, West Virginia,
Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, New
Mexico and Arizona. Should he lose
Ohio he would have to carry two of the
insurgent, but hitherto rock-ribbed Re
publican, states of the Northwest, such
as Michigan. Minnesota, Iowa and Wis
consin. M -T
Without the electoral vote of New
York nothing less than a tidal wave
will save the Democratic party from
defeat next year '
Monument Is Proposed.
PORTLAND. Aug. 19. (To the Edi
tor) it has been suggested that a
shaft be erected within the Lownsdale
Park and the following excerpt from
G B. Shaw's "Man and Superman" chis
eled deep Into the marble, and that The
Oregonian. as It Is the most progress
ive newspaper in the world, take the
matter up and give it furtherance.
"But there are also men strong
minded enough to disregard the social
convention which bids a man live by
heavy and badly-paid drudgery. We
misuse our laborers horribly and when
a man refuses to be misused we have
no right to say that he Is refusing
honest work. Let us be frank in this
matter. If we were reasoning, far
sighted people, four-fifths of us would
go and knock the whole social system
to pieces with most beneflclsl results.
The reason we do not do this is be
cause we work like bees or ants, by
Instinct or habit, not reasoning about
the matter at all.
"Therefore, when a man comes along
who can and does reason, and who. ap
plying the Kantian test to his conduct.
can truly say tu us. i o.bijuuuj
t t, wauM he r.omnelled
to reform Itself industrially, and' abol
ish slavery and squaior, which ei
only because everybody does as you
do." Let us honor that man and seri
ously consider the advisaoiiuy oi ioi
lowing his example. Such a man is
the able-bodied, able-minded pauper.
Were he a gentleman doing his best
a- , n-iAn nr a BlnnniirA instead
"i S"
of sweeping a crossing, nobody would
blame him ror aeciains mai u lung
the alternative lies between living
mainly at the expense of the commun
ity, and allowing the community to live
mainly at his. It would be folly to ac
cept what is to him personally the
greater of the two evils."
GENTLE READER.
THE LEGITIMATE GROtCH.
Last night It was late that I labored;
With a headache this morn I trwoke.
And ate three hot waffles for break
fast.
But mv stomach could not see the
Joke.
I
As a plow horse I plodded to labor,
Ti'kit- o toa y ilrnn nf bitterness slid
Down the bridge of my beak like a
dewdrop
To splash on my typewriter lid.
As o'er his keys, pensively musing.
The oreanlst's shekel hooks stray.
My digits dance o'er the typewriter
And grind out a sorrowiui lay.
And I sit. as the moments flit by me.
Wi t h ieet neain iuo cnair ouiwni
And srind out a grist of typewriting.
And worn up a groucn it ins wunu.
When thou seest me thus, come not
near me.
with tales of vacation delight.
Of riotous romps In the woodland.
Or strolls on the .seashore at nigni.
Talk not of the trout string all whop
pers
ExDect not that I shall believe:
For your fanciful fables of fishing
Add fifty per cent to my peeve.
Wh'en thou seest me thus, speak not
to me,
Mnp crMt me with Jubilant cry.
For I'll freeze all your Joyful advances
With a glance or my eaim, nsny eye.
uean uoiiins.
Portland, August 21.
Strictly Betweea Physicians.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
"Doctor. I want you to look after my
office while I'm on vacation."
"But I ve just graduated, doctor.
Have had no experience,"
"That's all right, my boy. , My prac
tice is strictly fV'onable. Tell the
men to play golf and ship the women
patients off to Europe."
Advertising Talks
Br William C Freeman.
When James Schermerhorn, publisher
of the Detroit "Times," gets up to say
something, his words carry conviction,
because he backs them up by his deeds.
He has made a long, hard fight in the
newspaper world for accuracy In both
news and advertising. He made a
speech at the Boston Convention, parts
of which are here recorded because
I they should be remembered by those
who are working hard to develop ad
I vertising on right lines:
. "The advertiser who puts anything
J but the truth into the newspaper
space ne contracts ior Darters away
his good name and the publisher's, too.
"The advertiser is for truth mightily
part of the time. He makes the pub
lisher swear on the Book when he de
clares his circulation.
"The newspapers have no associa
tion to insist ' upon guaranteed copy.
They send forth no representatives to
verify statements. They demand no
affidavits. Where ignorance Is bii, tir
folly to be wise.
"If the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth is too drastic
if It sounds like asking you to sell
all that you have and give to the poor
in order to gain eternal life this is
the time to establish a twilight zone
between the day of truth and the night
of falsehood.
"But be brave and be explicit, breth
ren. If you cannot stand the daylight,
come out courageously for twilight,
"If you declare for reasonable re
straint of honesty, it would be well to
settle the number of readers who are
poisoned by a nostrum or fleeced by a
wildcat Investment proposition, before
the pervasion may be said to be un
reasonable. "If you fix a twilight zone, let It also
be fixed how many times the Scheftels
and Burrs must be thrown out of the
malls and thrust into dungeons before
their copy passes out of the gloaming
Into the dusk.
"Truth stands at the door and
knocks; let the advertiser open unto
her and she will bring him honor and
glory forevermore: or, at least, respect
ability. "If you are to become a profession
you must here and now formulate a
code. That code need spell but one
word, truth, and all other worthy
things shall be added unto you."
These are only extracts brief" ones
from a most interesting speech that
took more than an hour to deliver, and
then Mr. Schermerhorn's hearers want
ed him to continue.
. His deeds in Detroit have called forth
the approval of the good people of the
city and have won for htm the good
will of the reputable business interests
of the country.
He Investigates all advertisments
before they are printed in his news
paper, and has had the courage to
drive out of his community many ad
vertising fakirs.
(To be continued.)
Half a Century Ago
(Prom The Oregonian. August 22. 1861. t
The persons murdered at Barlow's
Gate, on . the Cascade Mountains, prove
to be Mr. Jarvis Brlggs and his son.
Newton Brlggs, of Lane County. The
murders were committed by Indians.
These Indians and others, who have
lately committed murders, are all likely
to be taken through the vigilance of
Captain Whittlesey and Messrs. Logan
and Dennlson.
O'Meara has started a secession paper
in Jacksonville.
The Secretary of Washington Terri
tory. Mr. J. L. S. Turney. was received
at Olympia by a National salute.
On yesterday, while several workmen
were shingling a stable in process of
erection for Mr. Knott, in the south
part of town, the roof fell in and the
walls fell apart. Of two children of Mr.
R. Ladd. who were in the building, one
was slightly hurt and the other received
no Injury. .Mr. KIrkenthall had his
wrist broken and otherwise severely in
jured. Mr. Kinney received a severe cut
on the face. Mr. G. Allen was slightly
bruised.
A detachment of 34 United States
troops under command of Captain Black
left Fort Vancouver yesterday morning
for the Cascades. Company K, Ninth
Infantry, Captain Van Voast command
ing, now stationed at The Dalles, are
also ordered to the same place to pro
tect the settlers from the threatened in
cursions of the Indians.
Brad's Bit o Verse
(Copyright. 1911, by W. D. Meng.t
A city farmer owned a hen; he kept
her in a stately pen and studied all her
whims and moods, and fed her choicest
breakfast foods. He washed her face
and curled her hair and manicured her
nails with care; he starched her feath
ers every day; but not a bloomln' egsr
she'd lay. The neighbors watched him
brush and rub, and joked him for a
silly dub; he went his way in calm re
pose and patronized the poultry shows;
he took in every cacklefest, his speck
led beauty did the rest, she never failed
to cop the prize, and people saw that
man was wise: his bank account to
thousands grew, he lived in clover and
in dew. I hear that adage, old, absurd,
that feathers do not make the bird; but
many a fowl of good Tntent on plain
and honest duty bent has seen the prize
pass by her coop because she let her
feathers droop; and I ta.ke notice more
and more that starch adds figures to
the score. The tailor does not make ths
man. but be as nifty as you can; brush
up your clothes and get a shine, hold
up your head and buck the line, mow
the alfalfa from your face, walk Ilka a
man who sets the pace, keep neat and
sweet and clean and wise, and fortune
holds for you a prize.
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
(Copyright, 1911. by G. M Adams.)
I suppose every one feels better aftet
he has "made a fuss" about his wrongs
although he gets no redress.
I dislike a grouch, but a man who is
always smiling, and Insists on telling
you "good Jokes," is worse.
The few really well balanced men are
quickly grabbed up, and given big Jobs
When a woman becomes careless, she
first shows it in her skirt gaping in the
back.
When there is a consultation of doc
tors, the verdict usual V.- is that th
patient Is fatally ill; which the attend
ing physician already knew.
How tired we all become of beef
steak! But what else can we do?
Don't abuse your rival; behave better
than he does.
A second wife usually seems to do
batter than a second husband.
Let a dog Into-the house three dayr
tn succession, and you spoil him.
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