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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATTJRDA1. MARCH 8, 1913.
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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
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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.
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dealer.