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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATTJRDA1. MARCH 8, 1913. wtgmscci ", ' ' PORTLAND. OREGON. " Entered at Portland. Oregon. PostofNee aa ' second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance: (BY MAIL) ' Dally. Sunday Inclnded. one year 2'25 , Daily, Sunday Included, six months .. . 4.-i t Daily, Sunday Included, three months.. 2.2o s Dally, Sunday included, one month ..... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year Dally, without Sunday, aix months .... nallv. vlthmit Kttnriav. ihrM months .. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month .... .00 , Weekly, one year J-J , Sunday, one year.......... --3U , Sunday and Weekly, one year. 8-3" l (BI CARRIER) ' Dally. Sunday Included, one year .00 ' Dsi!y. Sundav Included, one month. How te Remit Send postoHice money or sder. express order or personal check on your " local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at ' the sender's risk. Give postoBice address In . full. Including county and state. , Postage Rates Ten to 1 pages, 1 cent; , J to !4S pages. 2 cents; SU to 40 pages. t cents; 40 to 60 pages. 4 cents, Foreign postage, double rate. Eastern Business Offices Verree C0" ' lln. New York. Brunswick building. Cnl- cago. Steger building. ; ban Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. . 742 Market street. European Office No. 8 Regent street 8. fc'W., London. PORTLAND, 8ATXROAY, MARCH B, WIS. . THAT SALARY GRAB. It is stated by a newspaper friend t of the Governor that the executive in vetoing the county salary bills did not I do so on the ground that the increases ; were not justified, but because he fa , vored a blanket salary bill which pur i ported to take such questions out of legislative politics. But it is a matter of i grave question wneiaer, iut caouhth). ;'county of the importance or Clackamas 1 should be compelled to seek the serv J ices of a capable school superintendent with offer of insufficient salary, simply ' because the Governor does not like the method taken to give him proper re- muneration. It is an equally grave f ul status of a Legislature free from " local political squabbles practically -. every county officer in the state should ' be granted a raise in pay. Originally the vetoes of the Governor were hailed as a move against a legls- latlve salary grab and as a challenge to the members to return to Salem and override the Governor in such a mat- ' ter. But the Legislature returned and 11. yaQscu luo u i . .Jin ........ j creases were thereafter published be- side those proposed in the Governor's pet measure, disclosing that in some instances the Legislature was more moderate than the Governor and that in others the Governor's bill fixed lower rates than the legislative schedule. The comparison of figures, how ever, did not disclose the whole truth. One correspondent of The Oregonian has made totals of the salaries fixed by the Legislature and of the salaries proposed in the Gill bill and asks to have pointed out where the Legislature has demonstrated a spirit of economy or the Governor displayed a trend toward extravagance. It is true that comparison of the particular items listed shows a saving in behalf of the Gill bill of .2700. But it must be remembered that the Gill bill applied to every one of the thirty. four counties in the state, while the Legislature changed the pay of offi cers in only eighteen counties. In some counties the Legislature added to the salary of only one officer, while in the same counties the Gill bill would have increased the pay of several. In Clackamas County the Legist ture increased the salary of the Super intendent of Schools and that of no other officer. The Gill bill would have raised the salary of the County Judge 1200; of the Treasurer J100; of the Clerk J200; of the Sheriff J200, and of the Assessor 14 50. Had the Gill bill been passed instead of the Legisla ture's measure the pay of county offi cers in Clackamas County would have been increased 11050 over what they will now receive. During the next year salaries in Yamhill County would have been in creased by the Gill bill $1000; in Linn County. t00: in Umatilla, J500; in Douglas, 1800; in Baker, $1000; in Lane, $800, and so on down the list of counties affected but slightly or not at all by the bills that were passed over the veto. The Gill bill would not have reduced the salary of a single county officer until the terms of those now in office expired. It would have increased many immediately. And it would not have eliminated county salaries ques tions from legislative politics. Coun ties were simply to be classified and the Legislature left to change the sal. aries in each class every session if it so desired. In one class there would have been but one county, in another only two, in a third only five. It is neither certain nor hardly prob able that the Legislature In reforming county salaries in future would always make a change apply to every county in a given class. The last Legislature was utterly powerless to deprive the n-rt T.reislntnro nf authority to ex- Assessor, or any other officer of any county from the schedule of salaries that applied to the class in which that county had been placed. In short, the Governor proposed a general Increase in county salaries throughout the state. The Legislature listened to the advice of members fa miliar with local conditions, used its in specific instances where increases were deemed justified. The difference In cost to the taxpayers of the state in paying the salaries of clerks, sheriffs, school superintendents, assessors, coun. ty judges and treasurers was thou sands of dollars in favor of the plan put through by the Legislature. While the Legislature considered each proposed county salary increase an ! YYiAvit. Ha l?nvrnnr dIH not. That is the testimony of his friends, and certainly the veto message con firms their statement. It is on a par with the excuses given by the Governor for disapproving other bills of merit In a majority of them he indicates no conception of the proper function of the veto power. His reckless inconsis tency in applying it and the craptrap he offers in his own defense confirm what has heretofore been said of him that he uses the veto mainly to re ward friends and punish enemies with out regard to loss by the state or profit by the community. His abuse of this power is a grave scandal comparable only with his abuse of executive authority over the liberty of convicts. One of the first things which Presi dent Wilson must do to save his Ad ministration from discredit is to close the mouth of Secretary of State Bryan. Repetition from an old speech of a flow of words depleting what the late Sena, tor Ingalls would have called an iri descent dream does not give us a high conception of our foreign policy and is not calculated to inspire respect for Mr. Bryan among those foreign diplo mats with whom ha will have to deal. mm Our foreign relations should be dis cussed in calmer and more dignified terms than an outburst of flamboyant oratory, which in plain English means simply that we should observe the ten commandments. Dm. The grand march of the Progressive party toward its announced goal as a powerful factor in the politics of state and Nation is not exactly the impres sive spectacle all had been led to ex pect it would be from the resonant character of the advance notices. The Progressives cast nearly 4,000,000 votes in the Nation last November and 37,600 In the State of Oregon. The total vote in Oregon was nearly 140, 000, so that, the Progressive total is about 27 per cent of the aggregate. It is. or ought to be, creditable founda tion upon which to build a party. It would be unkind to raise the question now as to whether all the voters for Colonel Roosevelt thus definitely aligned themselves with the third party. AH know that Roosevelt was Infinitely stronger than his party; but let us assume that he was not and Is not. Thirty-seven thousand odd votes are not to be ignored. , Tet one wonders what is the matter with the Progressives in the new regis. tration. Instead of 27 per cent, or more than one-fourth the total, they are less than one-tenth. It is difficult to see how Colonel Roosevelt is ever to be President if his party is to grow smaller instead of larger. The third party men and women have an opportunity now under the law to register as Progressives. If they have heretofore registered as members of another party, they may be permitted to change their deslg. nation to the party of their new faith. Why not? There should be honesty in our poll tics. There Is a plain duty every citi zen owes to his own conscience and to the people, and it is to identify him self with the political organization in whose principles he believes and whose success he desires. One reason why our politics in Oregon has been in so confused and unsatisfactory a condi tion is the wretched self-seeking of men who sought to U3e the party for their own profit and to destroy it when they encountered disappointment or defeat. The Oregonian hopes that all citi zens who are in sympathy with the purposes of the Progressive party, and who are no longer in accord with the Republican party, or the Democratic party, will register as Progressives. There can be no fair dealing among parties, or mutual respect between their members, or maintenance of party organization in any other way. IOWNK'S FEDERAL BUILDING. "If the gnawing desire for a new postoffice serves to qualify a place for the Podunk class, Portland heads the list of Northwest Podunks," is the lat est emanation from the Pendleton East Oregonian. Yet it suffers the blight of an afterthought when it re marks further that "Pendleton is in the same category." It may not be uninteresting to get the point of view of the Pendleton paper further on the vital issue of the public building" pork barrel: But why Is It so unworthy In a town to aspire to a decent postoffice or Federal building? Take the case of Pendleton, for Instance. Despite the Importance of the local postal business, Pendleton has en dured for years postoffice quarters that are glaringly lacking. We also have numerous Federal officers here who are obliged to rent rooms for office purposes. These In clude the Bureau of Animal Industry, the United States Commissioner and the clerk of the Federal Court. When the Federal Court comes here tor a session, the court must kick around for a room In which to convene and generally sponges off the county by using our circuit court room. Waiving aside any discussion as to why it is necessary or expedient for the Federal Court to go to Pendle ton, It is well enough to say that it is not unworthy for any town to aspire to a decent postoffice Or Federal build ing, provided the outlay by the Gov ernment is not sheer waste. A town like Pendleton, with a large volume of business through its postoffice. and with various other Federal offices, is justified in asking that they be suit- ably housed. The scandal of the pork barrel basis of many public building expenditures is that they are made where- there is no adequate call for them beyond the pull of the commun ity with Its Congressman. The people take a proper pride in attractive and commodious public buildings. They are the visible monu ment of the power and glory of the republic. The United States cannot, for the sake of its own dignity, de scend to littleness or cheapness; but It must build for all time, and its build ings must satisfy from the outside as well as the Inside. The only point The Oregonian sought to make in its pre vious public building article, which the East Oregonian seeks to apply to Pendleton, was that Podunk Is en titled to no Federal building unless It Is able to demonstrate that there is a need and place for It. COLD SHOULDER FOR OFFICE SEEKERS. President Wilson's decision to leave the heads of departments to hear the pleas of offlce-seekers and that he will hear the applicants themselves only at his Cabinet officers' request may well cause a tremor of fear to run through the job-hunters. That decision means that each Cabinet officer will be given practically full swing in the selection of his own subordinates. This infer ence carries with it the corollary that each head of a department will be held responsible for the work of those whom he selects. Having picked his own human tools, he cannot shirk blame if they fail to do good service. The President's action implies that he takes the same view of appoint ments as his predecessor took. Mr. Taft enlarged the classified service as far as the law allowed and asked Con. gress for authority to enlarge it still further. He regards appointments as minor details with which the head of the Government should not be both ered. He considers it the function of the President to devote his time to the great problems of state. It may have been all very well when the Nation was young for the President personally to select each local official, but, now that the population has mul tiplied more than thirty times and the number of civil servants has increased more than in proportion, this has be come a physical impossibility. Mod ern Invention has not increased the working capacity of any man to thirty times that of a man living a century and a quarter ago. Even if it bad, we have outgrown the conception of a President as a grand National distrib utor of jobs. Mr. Wilson has given a hint that he not only Intends to follow Mr. Taft's lead in suppressing the office-seeker nuisance, but that he will not allow partisan considerations to interfere with the reappointment of good men. Mr. Taft reappointed Mr. Clark Inter state Commerce Commissioner, but the Democratic holdup in the Senate prevented his confirmation. One of Mr. Wilson's first acts was to reappoint Mr. Clark and the new Senate prompt ly did for him what the old Senate re fused to do for Mr. .-' Taft, " This is merely a straw, but It does not show a wind blowing very favorably to the spoilsmen. LONG FELLOW. Longfellow's birthday, February 27, has become almost a National holi day. The schools love the author of "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline" as they love no other poet. His verse is mem. orized not only for its genuine beauty, but more still for its pure and whole some sentiment. There is very little poetic passion in - Longfellow. He usually writes in a philosophic calm. His Joy is temperate, his grief re strained. The fiery passion of love, which plays such havoc in Byron's poetry and wails so despairingly through Poe's, speaks for Longfellow In a still, serene voice scarcely distin guishable from piety and friendship The tone of his poetry is low and gen tie. One might say the same thing of Cowper, and yet Longfellow is not at all like the author of "The Task.' Cowper strays unerringly into the fields of dogmatic religion. To be sure, his dogmatism is of the mildest kind and the reflections he makes upon the deeds of his extraordinary deity are most human, but, after all, it is not the sweet religion of universal broth erhood that he sings. Longfellow knows nothing of dogmas and his Providence rules with. a sway so benefi cent that we cannot imagine him con- signing any of his children to perdi tion. Without intruding false buoy. ancy upon his readers in the face of hateful facts, Longfellow is always op timistic. He sees . a' great deal that needs changing in the world, but he believes that forces are at work which can make everything right. Longfellow sings by preference the quiet domestic Joys. The evening fire. side, the old clock on the stairs, the village blacksmith, are his best themes. His poetry is always reflective, but never very deeply so. The man who stood on the bridge at midnight while the clock was striking the hour thought of many things, some grave, some melancholy, but his meditation ended, as everything in Longfellow ends, with a note of Joy. He knew that as long as the river flows, as long as the heart hath passions, as long as life hath woes, the moon and her broken reflection and her shadows shall ap- pear as the symbol of love in heaven and its wavering image here. What more can the heart ask of the poet? THE LIQUOR PROBLEM IX CITIES. What Federick C. Howe has to say- about the liquor problem in New York applies, with some restrictions, to every considerable city in the United States. Conditions are made unneces sarily difficult in New York by the lack of home rule. The city is mainly governed by the State Legislature, which is apt to be composed of men from the farms and villages who know little of city life and yet are filled with the invincible conceit that they know everything. Moved by this perilously stupid belief, they proceed to legislate for the metropolis as if it were Judson Corners with 300 population. In their foolish zeaj to make everybody right- eous by law according to their rural standards of righteousness, they con found crime, vice and innocent amuse- ment in one seething mass. They hurl the same penalties at dancing as at white slavery and gambling. The ig norance of the rural legislator has much to answer for in the plight where poor old New York finds herself. He has much to answer for in every city which is governed by a state Legisla ture. -The first step we must take in this country, if we really want to solve the liquor and vice problems, is to give the cities home rule. This has been done in Oregon as completely as pos sible, but still we have a vice issue and it seems no less serious and per plexing than in other places. Home rule is essential, but it is not everything. Frederic C. Howe, a fa mous student of municipal questions, whose opinions were set out pretty ex tensively in a late interview for the Times, would make the control of the liquor business and prostitution a mat. ter for executive instead of legislative action. His plan, as far as New York is concerned, is to turn the entire mat- ter over to the. Board of Estimate and Apportionment with full power to act. He wants no license law, especially no high license. ' A high license, as he justly says, simply compels the saloon keeper to increase his sales by hook or crook and to sell adulterated liquor instead of the pure stuff. Hence the license fee is more than canceled by the expensive misery and vice it fos ters. Mr. Howe wants many drinking places which pay no license fee at all. These should be restaurants and beer gardens where men would go with their wives and children if they had an opportunity and drink moderately under decent conditions instead of flocking to the saloons and swilling liquor by the tubful. Families go to the gardens and beer halls together in Europe. They would do the same in New York and other American towns If the laws permitted such places to exist. Certainly foreigners would do it. The trouble Is that fam ily resorts of this nature have been taxed out of existence by undiscrimi nating license laws and in consequence the family breaks up Into isolated units in search of recreation. The girls go to the dancehalls, where their virtue is constantly assailed. The boys drift into street gangs which haunt-- low dives. The father .meets his compan ions in saloons where there Is every inducement to drink to excess. Thus the law, In spite of hypocritical pre tenses to virtue, really assails the fam ily in Its most vital spot. Thus Mr. Howe reasons, and who shall say that he does not reason well? Inflexible legislation which takes no account of exceptions and varying cir cumstances has shown in a thousand cases its utter unfitness to deal with the vice and liquor problems. We fear that the New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment and similar execu. five boards in other cities would fail just as disastrously if the matter were left to them. Should Mr. Howe's pro posal be adopted in New York appal ling results would ensue. Vice would swiftly gain possession of the machln. ery chosen to regulate It and the latter state of the city would be worse than the first. This would happen for the clear and sufficient reason that the New York Executive Board, like the executive boards and officials in most of our other cities, Is an irresponsible body. Being answerable to nobody, or only faintly and remotely answerable, they have too often yielded to the pres. sure of vice and lewd politics and be come instruments of graft and oppres sion. Instead of serving the public they serve the plunderers of the public and in return for the blackmail which it pays them they foster the class that lives by breaking the law. It Is clear enough then that -the sec ond step in municipal reform ought to be the establishment of a responsible city government. The clearer and more direct responsibility can be made, the easier will be the handling of the vice problem. Responsibility becomes more efficient in proportion as the number of elective officials is smaller. Mr. Howe's plan for turning over the saloons to the Board of Estimate and Control would be. excellent if this board could be haled before the people at any instant as the British Cabinet may be and turned out of office if it were found that they had betrayed their trust. As long as this cannot be done, Mr. Howe's project would merely direct blackmail into new channels without arresting its current. Underlying all our failures to ob tain decent control of city wickedness is the inveterate National habit we have of confusing innocent amusement with vice and crime. In every city there is a group of terrible fanatics who wish to suppress every human de light. They strike at the theater and the saloon with the same ferocity. They see no moral difference between a dance in a schoolroom and a dance in a hall with a saloon at one end and bawdy chambers at the other. These people are the worst enemies of virtue and the best friends . of wickedness. The politicians yield to their fury by passing laws which they know will never be enforced and the "higher ups" utilize these laws to collect black, mail. That Is all they ever amount to and they amount to that everywhere. After all, perhaps, the step "preceding the first step" in municipal reform must be the acquirement of a little municipal common sense. The Greeks have won the race among the Balkan allies for primacy in capturing a great Turkish fortress. While they have besieged Janina, Bui garia has encircled Adrianople and Montenegro, aided by Servla, has made repeated assaults on Scutari and there was friendly rivalry as to which should first score a victory. Janina was the last Turkish stronghold in Southern Albania, which is the oldest Greek province of the Epirus. The Greeks are now free to march through Al bania to aid Montenegro at Scutari, but their march will surely be harassed by the Mohammedan Albanians. The increase of the German and French armies may not look so badly for peace as some suppose. Germany adds 168,000 men to her forces, France 210,000. The proceeding has an omin ous appearance, but it also tends to counteract its own threats. The big ger the army the more it costs, the more furious international borrowing becomes and the nearer the nations approach to bankruptcy. The chances are that militarism is about to end Its brilliant career in a grand explosion of international credit. Assured of Federal co-operation by the Supreme Court decision, the states should not hesitate to accept the invi tation of Illinois to join in measures against white slavery. This curse can not be rooted out unless each state does its part within Its own borders. , If the Wichita precedent should be generally followed and candidates for office subjected to "the third degree" by a mass meeting . of women, there may be a dearth of candidates in some cities. A baby show along the line of eu genics will be on the programme of the next State Fair. That is a good idea. . All the thoroughbreds of Oregon ire not four-legged. New York doctors criticise Dr. Friedmann's "technique." We , sup posed surgical operating had become an exact science, but didn't know it was also a fine art. Cost of inaugurating Wilson ran up to $73,000. Some of it might as well have been held out to help homeward the many officeseekers who will be disappointed. A San Franciscan, to regain a quarter-million property, must prove insan ity at the time he let go. That should be easy for any man who gives up at that rate. ' Harvard boasts a doctor of philoso phy who is but 18. But then it isn't what is crammed into the head so much as what is assimilated that counts. High-power explosives are needed to clear the path of progress, therefore such accidents as occurred at Balti more must be reckoned in the bill of costs. It is devoutly to be hoped that the preachers at . The Dalles who turned carpenters used no unclerical language when they hammered their thumbs. Lake Erie disregards the historic command, "Don't give up the ship!" and yields Perry's flagship after a rest of a century at the bottom. There is not 'a Democrat who can fill Adee's place, so Mr. Bryan grace fully retains him as assistant secretary. When it comes to saying nothing intentionally in a half-column Inter view, Secretary Bryan is an artist. The thief who kept the overcoat but returned the New Testament found in a pocket is beyond redemption. Los Angeles regards Lent as a time for self-examination on the part of cities as well as individuals. Anyone who could control the apple pie vote could be elected to anything hereabouts. Washington policemen will yet learn that a suffrage parade is no laughing matter. They cannot keep a Secretary Wil son out of the Cabinet. Is Doc Cook going to lose his proud title to Doc Friedmann? Malfgnment of March weather is im proper In Portland. - The proposal to form the State of Lincoln is dead. But Where's the queen of the local opium ring? ' More like Summer than Spring. About time for the iceman. WOMAX INTERESTED !' FIGURES Totals la GUI Bill Compare With Thos of Legislature's Measure. PORTLAND. March . (To the Ed itor.) On the first page of The Ore gonian, March , under the headline "General Salary Grab, West's BUI." ap pears an article on the respective merits of the salary bills as passed by the Legislature (but vetoed by the Governor), and the GiU bill, which Gov ernor West favored. In its continuance On page 12 this article gives the sal- aries as listed under each bilL The totals, however, were not given in either case, so I took the trouble to foot them up in order to satisfy myself as to just now much additional burden the. Governor had endeavored to foist upon the taxpayers. To my astonishment, I found that the bill favored by Governor West would have saved the taxpayers J2700 it it nad become law. The Oregonian calls attention, as particularly meritorious act, to the fact tnat, under the bill as passed, the Judge of Lake County is granted a sal ary of $700 as against $1400 favored by the Gill or Governor's bill. Why should a man of the caliber required to make an intelligent judge receive $700. while Sheriffs and Assessors re ceive three and sometimes almost four times this amount? In the bill favored by the Governor no salary exceeds $2000. and only one reacnes that mark. In the bill passed many reach that mark and far exceed it. I have recently become a voter and find tt necessary to avail myself of every possible means to understand the political situation. The Oregonian is my only dally means of information, and I feel sure you will give this letter space and elucidate for my benefit and tnat of others the seeming inconsis tency of the headline. A PUZZLED WOMAN VOTER. The Gill bill was a blanket measure covering all the 34 counties In the state. Tne Legislature passed salary bills which affected only 18 counties, and In some of these the increases applied to only one officer, while the Gill bill would have benefited several officers therein. No intelligent comparison of totals can therefore be -secured from the article cited, which was published merely to give comparisons between in dividual items passed by the Legisla ture and the same items in the blanket measure. The subject is discussed at greater length in another column. MORALITY OR RELIGION . FIRST? Writer Believes Them t o-Existent and Were Modifier of Each Other. SPRINGFIELD, Or., March 6. (To the Editor.) A writer in The Orego nian on the subject of religion and morality, or the question as to which one preceded the other took the position that morality preceded in all cases. This position has been held by some sci entists or investigators, but we are not aware that it is sustained by any great array of facts, though there are a few superficial appearances which seem to point toward it. As far as the different races or tribes of the hu man species have so far been looked into In their native haunts, we do not know of any that has not. shown some evidence or a system or code" of mor. als, however limited. In other words. me sense or oDiigatlon or what Is due to the outsider or even animal king dom is not entirely lacking. It Is claimed that the religious sense Is not so universal and the deduction has been made from it that morals were the basis for the religious system or rites tnat followed as their conse quence. We think the latest investi gations, however, not to speak of Stan ley Cruikshank, Seton and others, give ample evidence that even among the lowest there is a recognition of an out side greater or "supreme" power to which in all cases the savages and even most degraded seek to pay a rever ence, even if only for the purpose of appeasing the said powers and receiv ing their favor, and where favor or help Is sought there becomes a horn age for the direction of conduct, how- ever rudimentary. As to which one of these elements came first for they would seem to be related in a way there is no direct evidence, but there is as much evidence in the other direction, 1. e., that re liglon preceded morals as the former and, in fact, more so, since there are concrete examples to drawn from. Cases are known in history where a religion has been Imposed upon one people by another, and an enemy at that, and the morals of the conquered nation were altered In consequence, this some times for the better, sometimes for the worse; also cases of the lowest races, even savages, being subject to like in fluence. These are too numerous for dispute, but as the general or ethical question of precedence, the evidence cannot be said to be conclusive. What conjecture and facts so far at tained would indicate is that they are co-existent and are parts or arcs of a circle. One may modify the other In a way, but never long exist without it. Somewhat in the way as the human soul and body, so morals and religion mutually interact and support each oth er, or the more concrete Illustration of head and body. "Not always joined In breath. But which to divide were death." MORTON L. CUMMINGS. Gook That Lays Golden Eggs, Ella O. Jones in Llppincott's. (Revised.) A certain man had a goose which laid him a golden egg every day. A foolish friend advised him to kill the goose and realize at once on the future. "No," said the man, "that is not the proper way. I know a better." There upon he organized a company and is sued stocks and bonds which he sold at a good round figure. Then he gave out the report that the goose bad quit lay ing. This enabled him to buy the stock back at a low figure. Then he gave out the report that the goose was laying two eggs a day, which enabled him again to sell the stock at a big ad vance. After he had repeated this process a number of times, he was so rich that he didn't care what the goose laid or when. Accordingly, he in vested his wealth In gilt-edged securi ties, journeyed abroad, and went in for art. Tribute to Philosopher. Detroit Free Press. "He's a deep thinker." "I guess so. None of his ideas ever get to the surface." The Passionate Mechanician. Llppincott's. . Oh. come with me and be my lore. And we will all the pleasures prove That speed dynamics, late revealed In air and earth and water, yield! The vulgar herd we'll put to rout In our tempestuous runabout. Or dare a death. defying hike , L'pon a tandem motor-bike. In touring-car we'll spoil the peace Of drowsy rural road police. Then will I buy thee caps of leather, Made to resist all kinds of weather; A pair of goggles, and a coat Of fur from sable, seal, or goat. The taxlcab shall take Its way For thy delight each shopping day. And when for frills thy soul doth pine, A stately limousine is thine. If lake and stream we'd navigate. I've motor-boats, all up to date. If thou wouldst skim the ambient air. Unto my hangar we'll repair. And fly o'er land and bounding main In mono-, bl-. or hydroplane; Or we will sit and sweetly spoon. Dependent from our swift balloon, Wbilo envious gazers watch our flight. In wonder at our dixxy height. If all these pleasures may thee move. Oh, come with me and be my love! I HOW TO BE) HAPPY THOUGH POOR Will It So ana Practice Christian Sci ence, Sara Writer. PORTLAND, March 7. (To the Edi tor.) The cost of proper living is as Inexpensive now as it has been for a great many years. The high cost of living we hear so much of is largely a myth. The necessaries of life, such as rent, groceries, clothes, etc., have not been lower in cost for a long time than right now. This agitation we hear so much of Is occasioned largely by people attempt ing to live up to a standard that is beyond their legitimate income; or. In other words, live high. They have got ten into this habit unconsciously a result of the prosperous times we have had previous to the last year. Work has been plentiful at good wages; money could be made from specula tions, and seemed both to come and go easy. On all sides of us we have been con fronted with inducements to spend our money. The $100 per month man has tried to live as well as the $200 man, and he in turn has tried to keep up the appearances of the $400 per month man. Good times and our vanity have gotten us into an uncomfortable posi tion. Conditions have changed. Legitimate business is all right, but speculations are rarely profitable. A period of liquidation, the result of going too fast, is upon us. It takes courage in a man or woman to meet the new conditions In a cheerful manner, accustomed as they are to fine clothes, theater parties, automobiles, etc., but they. can do it, and the sooner they attempt it the bet ter. Courage and will power will win the battle. They must firmly resolve that a certain amount of their income each month will be put aside as a reserve fund. If necessary to accomplish this end all luxuries must be discarded. It may be difficult to do this at first, and may subject one to an occasional snub from a neighbor possessed -of more money and less brains, but it will come easier after while, and then will come a feeling of contentment and happinesB that is not experienced by thinking persons, who see all their income go each month, with nothing aside for the sickness or rainy day that Is sure to come, to say nothing of old age that gets us all in time. Happy and contented people are good citizens an asset to any com munity. Happiness, like the air, Is free to us all If we will but live right and cultivate it, and 'tis not necessary, as many persons seem to think, to par take of luxuries and have an automo bile to be happy. Far from it, as many an automobile owner can testify, my. self among them. Any man having an income from $65 per month up can support a family and put a little to one side if he will but live right. He and his family can be happy also if they will but will it so and put in practice the teachings of Christian Science. R. R. MORRILL, 832 East Eleventh Street. LAW MEANS FOOD FOR THE POOR Opening- of Regie River Will Restore Flab. Price to Old Level. TALENT, Or.. March 6. (To the Edi. tor.) Rogue River, the greatest sal mon stream wholly within the State of Oregon, has been restored to com mercial fishing by the Legislature, overruling an erratic and Ignorant Governor. Employment will now be re stored to hundreds of men thrown out of work by the initiative act of 1910. All of Southern Oregon can again af ford to eat fish, for the closing of the river caused the price of fish on our market more than to double in price, so that very few people could afford to buy them. None caught by the sporting element could be sold. The river became pol luted with dead fish while Southern Oregon lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue from this great nat ural resource to the oenefit of no one, not even those who initiated and fooled the people into voting for this degrad ing and retrograding act. That law was one singled out by in vestigators of the "people's rule" as one of the horrible examples of the Injus tice of the Oregon people in direct legislation; it discouraged capital from undertaking new enterprises; it came with the "blight" and the passing of the "land boomer" in Southern Oregon, and yet local newspapers and local representatives were so far out of touch with the great majority of Southern Oregon people that they sup ported it contrary to the broad general welfare. Now that we can - soon again buy fish caught at home at a reasonable price it is hoped that many people will eat enough to restore their mental bal. ance and never again try to turn back the wheels of progress to restore the conditions that existed when the In dian roamed in this reported Garden of Eden. JOHN Q. DICE. The Biennial Knockfest Br Dean Collins. Come, friend, and bask upon this bench, Amid the charms of budding Nature, We'll watch the park crowds pass ing by And knock the recent Legislature. With swinging blows, Right on the nose. Well rap the legislators. And pass around The sledge, and pound Our statute book creators; And while the sun shines brightly o'er us. Sing our biennial anvil chorus. Great drops of wisdom, full and round. Good friends, I will distil at thee. About our legislators' show Of utter Imbecility. With ready wit, "Oh Ditto, ditto I" You'll say to all I point out; And join anew To rap them, too. And knock another Joint out; And show that makers of our laws Have intellects plumb full of flaws. We'll pan their spendthrift ways, and we Will give them savage flagellations; Declaring them too quick by far In voting big appropriations; And from our bench. Retrench, retrench!" Will be for us the keynote; We'll rage at rash Misuse of cash. Which In their actions we note: And dub them bitterly: "Betrayers Of us unfortunate taxpayers!" Come, friend, sit close beside me here; There s no one present to defend em; So to our heart s content we 11 roar. And hint about the referendum. This recreation Of castigatlon, With Joy we should renew It; Just once within Two years we win The joyful chance to do it; So let us grasp the opportunity To roast them roundly, with impunity. 'TIS meet, good friend, that you and I, Should, sitting here today debating. Give the taxpayers' view of scorn Against all recent legislation. With bitter jeering. Sarcastic sneering. Give forth your full opinions. 'TIa apropos To roast them so. Our legislative minions; And wail taxpayers' sorrows many Tour share of all the tax immense. It must be fully 30 cents. Mine is not any. Portland, March 7. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of March S. 1SS&. Washington, March 7. The Demo cratic effort to carry Oregon is assum ing very definite shape. The election in Oregon will be held on June 5, the day the Democratic convention will assemble in St. Louis. The President has requested John P.. Irish, of San Francisco, to go to Oregon and use all his influence to carry the state. Washington, March 7. A sub-committee of the Senate has decided to recommend the establishment of life saving stations at U nip qua, at Yaquina. at Shoalwater Hay. near Loomis, and at Grays Harbor. Salem, March 7. George E. Good, the well-known druggist, has sold his store to H. T. Gibson, who has been in his employ for two years, and H. A. Sin gleton, recently Jtrom San Jose, Cal. Victoria,' B. C. .March 7. A man was arrested here tonight tallying precisely with the published description given of the murderer of Snell of Chicago. Steamboat Inspectors Ferguson and McDermott inspected the steamer Dixie Thompson yesterday. - The brick work 'on C. H. Dodd's new building on Front and A streets will begin in about two weeks Joseph Holladay's appeal from the decision of Judge Stearns, reversing the order of Judge Catlln granting let ters testamentary to him In the will of his brother. Ben. will be argued in the Supreme Court today. State Railroad Commissioners J. H. Slater and G. A. Waggoner are In the city, also Rev. J. R. N. Bell, clerk of the board. Last evening the. hoard of officers of the First Regiment, O. N. G., elected Harry C. Johnson major. The steamer Gen. Canby, on her Sat urday trip to Hwaco, went round by the new channel recently diacovered across where Peacock Spit used to be, and round -under the lighthouse. The East Side An ordinance was in troduced at the City Council meeting Tuesday authorizing the Willamette Bridge Street Railway Company to ex tend lines of track over certain streets. D. W. Small and P. B. Johnson, of Walla Walla, have gone to Helena to interview the magnates of the Mani toba road, with the idea of bringing it to that section. Arthur Marlon has been appointed clerk of the District Court at Colfax, vice Beriah Brown, Jr resigned. Half a Century Ago j From The Oregonian of March 9, 1883. The rebel organ of Saturday evening earnestly demands an immediate- ef fective organization for the purpose of filling every city office with a true blue Democrat, dyed in the wool, so that the voice of Portland may thus express its thorough condemnation of the Administration and all its measures for the suppression of the rebellion. Louisville, Feb. 28. At noon yester day 20 freight cars loaded with persons going to Nashville were - seized and burned by 60 armed guerillas la miles below Bowling Green. New York, Feb. 28. Gold this morn ing is quoted at 72 cents premium. Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Feb. 27. On Wednesday night a raid was made on our lines by two rebel cavalry brigades of Lee and Hampton's forces. They crossed the Rappahan nook at Kelsey's Ford and succeeded by a strong attack In breaking our thin lines of cavalry outposts and captured a few of our men. Our cavalry out posts and reserves were brought into line Immediately and re-established. A force was sent In pursuit. The rebels returned in great haste' across the Rappahannock. A. T. Stewart, of New York, has re fused to sell cotton goods at any price, and has been engaged In buying up all the goods he can purchase; empty stores have been taken and warehouses rented and filled to the rafters with goods. If we have a battle and do not win, cotton goods will run up like gold. 1012 Prices on 3 DOS Salary ' Cincinnati Enquirer. Willie Paw, what is domestic- sci ence? Paw Paying 1912 prices for things out of a 1906. salary, my son. SUNDAY FEATURES War on Tnbercn losis A timely and valuable page on the great white plague and the un successful exler to stamp it out; of mnnlrinrl The' Easter Outfit An art istic page in colors dealing with the very latest things in Spring styles. Burglars They are discussed by Jack Rose, who tells you a few ways whereby burglars can be kept out of your home. The best yet in the "Underworld" series. Wonders of Surgery An illustrated page on the amazing feats which are performed by the skilled surgeons of today. Tumulty A page on the Braw Irish lad who serves as buffer between President Wil son and the ninety millions. Crnelty to Children An amazing revelation from a Lon don correspondent on inhuman treatment of little English chil dren. It is based on official re ports and is illustrated with a number of striking photographs. Gibson Pictures Mrs. Diggs is alarmed at discovering what she imagines to be a snare that threatens the safety of her only child. Mr. Diggs does not share this anxiety. ' The Other "Woman A story by Richard Harding Davis of a man with a past and a woman whose love did not survive her discovery of it. Bigger Crops A vital ques tion is dealt with in a page article on the work that is being done to increase the efficience of our farmers and thereby the productiveness of the soil. Dozens of other splendid fea tures for every order of reader. . Order today of your news dealer.