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Ttt- r-r::TT?G. OREGOXTATf. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.
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1 IfON-rARTISANS 1 Oil THE BENCH.
The state la entitled to have the
services of its most eminent lawyers
on the Supreme and Circuit Benches
without regard to politics. The Ore
gonian approved the selection by Gov.
ernor West of a. capable and scholarly
Democrat W. M. Ramsay to the Su
preme Bench, and it is prepared to
say that no reason or consideration
of pure partisanship should control
either the people or the executive in
selecting Judges. It Is not unmindful
of the fact that the most active pro
tagonists of a non-partisan Judiciary
are some of our Democratic politi
cians, and it knows what the persistent
cry of non-partisanship, raised under
the Impulse of Democratic self-seeking,
has done for the Democratic. party
and to the Republican party in Ore
gon. Nevertheless, The Oregonian
eays that a Supreme Bench, or a Su
perior Bench in a largo county, made
up of Judges exclusively selected from
one political party is not a reassuring
or wholesome spectacle.
The charge has never been made
that the Supreme Court of Oregon has
rendered a decision on political
gTOunds, or that any of Its members
have been inspired in any action or
ruling by partisan aims. But that is
not the issue. The state ought not, by
its partisan methods of nomination
and election, to deny itself of the serv
ices of the finest minds and the best
men from all parties in the legal pro
fession. They have a non-partisan Judiciary
system in the State of Washington. It
Is a hit-and-miss system. So far one
Democrat has been elected, among
many Republicans. What reason have
the Democrats to think they would
fare better in Oregon 7 We incline to
the bi-partisan method of selecting
Judges, as in New York; but we will
approve any practicable plan of giving
a Judicious political balance to the
Supreme Bench, if It shall not have the
taint of Democratic Intrigue or Re
publican greed.
r BLB.1JTJ3 STUFF.
The spirit of levity with which The
Oregonian considered that remark
able volume, "The Pacific Metropolis,
Where and Why," has brought us a
mild chiding from the Tacoma Ledger.
It does not surprise us that the TaT
coma press and people have taken
Mr. Radebaugh's book so seriously.
While it Is chock full of humor, that
element Is too subtle to impress one
except in his most wakeful moments.
For example, Mr. Radebaugh insists
that foreign trade determines the final
population supremacy of near-by cities,
und forthwith sets out to prove it with
a. short tabular statement which dis
closes that Philadelphia, with $44,
800,000 less exports and imports than
Boston, has a population two and one
half times greater. If this be not
cunning wit, what is it?
There is also a pretty bit of sarcasm
on another page in a discussion of
delays to navigation on the Columbia
River. The funny author, to prove
that delays actually occur, cites one
specific instance. It happened thirty
seven years ago. San Francisco Bay,
we learn from this authentic history,
la a hazardous harbor a pilot-boat
capsized in the Golden Gate in 1865.
What is more appropriate than a
whimsical review of a volume so re
plete with wit and humor? If we had
been serious, a criticism of Mr. Rade
baugh for not telling othe merry time
Tacoma has had in keeping its
wharves from sliding off into deep
vmater would have been necessary and
that would have been unkind.
But the chief burden of the Ledger's
complaint is that the Portland news
papers avoid any reference to the
report of a committee of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce on the depth, of
water on the Columbia River bar,
quoted in "The Pacific Metropolis,
Where and Why." Bless you, broth
er, the Portland newspapers have been
full of the work of the dredge Chi
nook, which has deepened the bar
more than three feet since that report
was made. In spite of the Tacoma
humorist's figures of 23 feet of water
on the bar, the ship Roma, draw
lng 24.3 feet, passed into the Colum
toia in August, when the tide gauge
registered one foot below zero. In
spite of his bombardment of ancient
history and outdated statistics Port
land continues to lead all Puget Sound
In wheat shipments; the two largest
steamship companies in the world
have made Portland their Pacific ter
minus; the biggest vessel of the com
pany's fleet is coming into the river
in January; and the Hill railroads
have chosen to invade coastwise pas
senger traffic from a Columbia River
base.
It is a sad exhibition of stupidity,
that of Tacoma's, in failing to learn
after all the years that its foreign
exports and imports exceeded Seattle's,
that mere transhipping of freight will
not make a metropolis. Seattle's
Alaska trade, made up largely of
goods that originate In or are Jobbed
out of Seattle, is ten times a better up
Jbuilder than all the teas and silks and
wheat that pass through Tacoma's
warehouses from or to points in which
Tacoma has no actual commercial in
terest. Foreign commerce is an incident as
well as a cause of community growth.
What Portland exports is produced in
Its own trade field. What it Imports
is there consumed. It is an originat
ing and distributive center, not a
transhipping point.
Tacoma's slow growth has been due
in past to its practice throughout
many years of pointing out the dis
abilities of competing cities and ,Its
failure to cast an inward glance upon
Its own. Content with a few natural
advantages It has sat supinely still
while other communities have over
come natural obstacles and distanced
It In. the race for supremacy. Portland
and Seattle have captured trade ter
ritory that might have been Tacoma's,
while Tacoma expended its energies in
promoting quarrels over the name of
a mountain. Portland has extended
friendly hands to Southwest Wash
ington, -while Tacoma has raved about
bar improvements that will directly
promote the -Interests of Washington
shipping points on the Columbia River.
Boasting of the sobriquet "City of
Destiny," Tacoma's real destiny Is to
knock. Its sole reliance for future
growth Is on supplying way-station
facilities for foreign commerce. Its
hopes, if they are no more than Mr.
Radebaugh discloses in his book, are
founded on the stuff that town-lot
booms are made of, nothing firmer.
THE Dim'DIIM) NEW PARTY.
In New York, as in other states,' the
Progressive party makes progress
backwards. The combined vote of the
Republicans and Progressives this
year was almost exactly the same as
last year 795,000 but the division
was radically changed. Taking only
those candidates who were not in
dorsed by the Independence League
In 1912, the Republican vote Increased
from 444,000 to 699,000, while the
Progressive vote decreased from 351,
000 to 196,000. In other words, the
proportion of Republicans to Progres
sives has Increased from 5 to 4 to 12
to 47.
The number of secessions from the
Republican to the Progressive party
in New York City In 1812, as stated
by the Sun, Is Indicated by the dif
ference between the Republican en
rollment and the vote for Job Hedges
for Governor. This difference was
77,000. The Progressive vote in the
city this year was 73,000 less than a
year ago, which suggests that nearly
all the seceders have returned to the
old party.
The Republican party has done
nothing formally to win back its re
volting members. They have returned
of their own accord as soon as their
resentment has cooled. What may we
expect to become of the Progressive
party when the Republican party def
initely makes Its conventions truly
representative and chooses spokesmen
of the new Republicanism to lead Its
hosts? It will probably prove as
ephemeral as the Barn-burner Demo
crats, who left the Democratic party
In 1848 to return a year later.
FIXDELL, OF PEORIA, GETS HIS JOB.
The great Pindell mystery is not
cleared up by the appointment of the
"original Wilson man in Illinois" to
the Ambassadorship to Russia. Few
outside of Illinois ever before heard
of Mr. Pindell; none anywhere have
regarded him as suitable for a con
spicuous diplomatic appointment. Sec
retary Bryan i3 quoted, however, as
saying that he Is one of "the best qual
ified" men In the country for the Job.
But we must regard Mr. Bryan's com
mendation as more enthusiastic than
accurate.
The mystery as to Ambassador-elect
Pindell does not consist in the uncer
tainty, or lack of it, as to his quali
fications for the place, nor as to the
exact reasons for his appointment. It
is clear enough that they are political.
It consists In the conflict of evidence as
to who got the Job for him. Senator
Lewis offered the Ambassadorship to
Mr. Pindell. But it is clearly hinted
from Administration quarters that
Senator Lewis was "butting In."
But was he? Senator Lewis tells
Pindell he may have the place a nice,
easy, comfortable, well-paying, leisure
ly and distinguished diplomatic post
for a whole year. He will have a
chance in that time to hobnob with
the crowned heads of Europe and in
troduce his daughter to court circles
and come back to Peoria with undying
distinction as the gent who told the
Czar a few things about himself worth
knowing or something like that. The
Administration intimates that Senator
Lewis talks or writes too much, and
that there are no strings to the Pin
dell offer and the choice is Mr. Bryan's
and President Wilson's.
Yet all will observe that Senator
Lewis peddles the Job and Pindell gets
it; and that he tells Pindell he is only
to remain a year, and it is admitted
from inside official scrarces that he will
"not remain the full term." The Pres
ident has someone else in mind C. R.
Crane, who did not go to China as Min
ister under the Taft regime, although
he started and someone else will
later supplant Pindell.
There have been some signs that
President Wilson is indifferent as to
our foreign relations, so long as they
do not trouble him; and the Pindell
Incident seems to indicate also that he
is careless about who fills the diplo
matic posts. The President has not
Suppressed the scandal about Pindell
by doing precisely what the scandal
mongers said he had entered into a
political deal to do.
STEAM-KOI.i rNQ THE WEST.
If Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Fisher imag
ine that the action of a steam-rolled
Conservation Congress will have any
weight with the Wilson Administra
tion, they greatly mistake its temper.
The President has declared his belief
in a policy of conservation, as op
posed to a policy of reservation. His
Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Lane,
has translated this policy into one of
humanizing government, which in its
application is highly satisfactory to
those Western states over which Mr,
Pinchot and Mr. Fisher ran their
steam roller. The public domain is
being and will be administered in the
Interest of the states wherein it lies,
and not according to the dictates of
men whose states have no public do-
main and who wish' to fatten the Na
tional Treasury at the expense of the
West.
A Conservation Congress, in order to
have influence with the Government,
must fairly represent the people in
terested In conservation. A body
packed with bureaucrats and their
mercenaries and with doctrinaires of
the Pinchot type Is not representative.
The great states jjvhich have a direct
interest in the subject were denied a
voice and some were denied a vote in
the deliberations at Washington,
Washington's spokesman -was howled
down, so was Montana's, and Idaho
was disfranchised on a flimsy pretext
worthy of a Tammany chairman.
Alaska also was. barred from particl
pation. When these states and this
great Northern territory, in which lie
most of the resources under discussion
are shut out a mere rump convention
rsmalns.
Why Is the congress being held in
Washington, on the extreme eastern
edge of the country? Is it not in order
the more easily to pack the hall with
so-called delegates from states which
have little left to conserve and to re
duce to a minimum the number of
delegates from the far West, which
has most to conserve? What has be
come of the virtuous indignation
against a bossed convention, to which
Mr. Pinchot gave utterance little more
than, a year ago? The chief fugleman
of Colonel Roosevelt seems to have
been taking lessons in practical politics
from "Boss" Barnes and "Boss" Pen
rose. Mr. Lane showed plainly where he
stood when he styled himself "the en
emy" at the banquet given to the Pin
chot crowd. ' We in the West agree
with him that conservation work as
he and the West understand it is "for
the benefit of the whole country," and
the West will stand behind him In his
opposition to Pinchotism.
THE LAW OF ENGAGEMENT RINGS.
For many an ardent lover the Joys
of courtship must have been marred
by a painful sense of the legal un
certainty hovering round the engage
ment ring. To whom does it belong
after It has been tenderly fitted upon
the lily finger of the beloved object?
Is it hers? Is it his? Or, In case it
ha3 not been paid for yet, is It the dia
mond merchant's? We should not
like to say Just how many engage
ments have been made miserable by
this legal uncertainty, but they must
be numbered by the million. .
From these considerations w may
estimate the value of the boon that
Judge Webster, of Salem, has con
ferred upon Cupid and his bondsmen
by determining once for all this per
plexed point of law. The case before
him was one involving every essential
difficulty in the ownership of the en
gagement ring, so that his decision
will probably take rank as a casus
princeps, or. In vulgar tongue, one
from which all subsequent decisions
will flow ,like water from a fountain for
a million generations.
Forrest Price bought a glittering
ring from the Barr Company and be
stowed It as a pledge of undying love
upon his betrothed. She was fair but
fickle, and even with the ring upon her
finger transferred her affections to an.
other, whom she married. Thus Price
was left lamenting and his lamenta
tion was embittered by the remem
brance that be still had the ring to pay
for. .
His credit had been good, all too
good, at Ban's, and now he had to
endure the awful spectacle of his dia
mond glittering upon the faithless fin
ger of another man's wife while he
was forced to make regular weekly
or monthly payments for It. No won
der Price's manly soul revolted. No
wonder he took counsel of the un
godly, or rather of a lawyer, for a way
out of his predicament. The sequence
was that he assigned his rights In the
ring back to the Barrs and they re-
plevined It from the fickle fair one. It
was upon this state of facts that Judge
Webster made his epochal decision
which was to the effect that while the
beloved object had an equitable right
to the ring, the legal property of it re
mained In Price up to the end of their
engagement and that he might reclaim
it 'whenever he wished. Inasmuch as
her wedding with another man made
it impossible to fulfill her engagement
to Price, the ring reverted to him com
pletely and his assignment to the Barrs
was valid.
We hope this case will be a lesson
to light-minded young creatures who
flit from flower to flower and want to
keep all the engagement rings they
thus accumulate. As a matter of law,
and of Justice, too, they are not enti
tled to a solitary one of them.
THE WANING OF THE KNIFE.
The clinical . congress of North
American surgeons has taken a decided
stand against "legalized murder" by
inexperienced members of their profes-
on. Even the laity can easily un
derstand that the young surgeon's per
formances with the knife are likely to
be little better than more or less blun-
dering experiments. His knowledge of
symptoms Is necessarily limited to the
ory. Anatomy is to him scarcely more
than a scheme which he has learned
out of a book. He has usually en-
Joyed a little practice in dissection.
but a dead body is very different from
a living one when It comes to a ques
tion of exploration with the knife. Be
sides all that, there are the young
man's nerves to reckon with. Natur
ally he puts up a brave pretense of
coolness and undaunted dexterity, but
it Is so thin that the patient readily
sees through it If he is not already at
the gates of death. The cutting and
lashing of this Inexperienced but
courageous young man have hitherto
been but little restrained either by law
or custom. He makes such experi
ments as he chooses upon his long-suffering
patients and the world smiles
complacently In the hope that if he
kills many he will ultimately qualify
himself to save a few.
It is this form of boyish self-culture
at the expense of the human race
which the clinical congress calls "le
galized murder," and they have passed
a set of outspoken resolutions designed
to check It. The congress demands
that every physician shall have five
years of practice in general medicine
before he does,anythingwhatever with
the tempting but pepflous knife. Of
this experience at least two years must
have been gained in active hospital
work "under the direction of a sur
geon of the highest standing." The
eminent authorities convened at the
clinical congress agree with the simple-minded
layman in the opinion that
the slashing of a cadaver in a dissecting-room
does not sufficiently prepare
a young man to operate upon the liv
ing body. They also believe that the
medical colleges ought to give "full
clinical advantages as part of their
courses." How this can be done by a
medical college situated in a little vil
lage where there is no hospital and but
little sickness is one of those questions
which boards of trustees find it easy to
dispose of, but which puzzle everybody
else. A strong committee was named
by the congress ,to present these de
mands to the various State Legisla
tures and the Canadian Parliament, in
the hope that they can be made a part
of the law of the land.
It will take a long time to effect
such a reform, but it may be done
some time, and if it ever is, a great and
wholesome change In the practice of
medicine will ensue. For one thing.
the young physician will be led to rely
a great deal less upon the knife and a
great deal more upon medical intul
tion and common sense than he does
now. Dr. John B. Murphy, a distin
guished Chicago surgeon, expresses
this thought by saying that during the
next twenty-five years "internal medi
cine will become enormously more im
portant than surgery." Of course he
means that it will supersede surgery
through all ranks of the profession in
great part, but he must have had
young practitioners particularly in
mind. As matters stand, their first
thought is to cut and slash whenever
an ailment confronts them. If they
were forbidden to use the knife at all
until they had reached the age of dis
cretion, their thoughts would naturally
be directed toward the Internal symp
toms of the patient. The traditional
procedure of the physician when he
makes a sickroom visit Is to feel the
pulse, take a look at the tongue and
with, vague benevolence "pat the. euf-
ferer's hand." Dr. Murphy assures us
that the diagnosis of the future will
be a far more extensive and scientific
process. The public already knows
something of the part which blood
analysis is destined to play In Identify
ing diseases. Such a .disease as ma
laria, for example, can be accurately
detected by no other means. The lab
oratory also plays a decisive part In
diagnosing diphtheria and tuberculosis
as well as those terrible Internal can
cers which challenge the physician's
best efforts and so often baffle him.
Within the next few years we may
expect the scientific study of "the duct
less glands," as they are called, to pro
duce fruitful results. Much Is known
about them already, but the learned
confess that much more' remains to be
discovered. There is little doubt that
the developmentxof tumors, the irreg
ular and monstrous growth of parts of
the body, the Impairment of certain
functions, the habitual routine of the
bodily processes, ' depend at bottom
upon the secretions of these glands.
The use of their products in medicine
has assumed great Importance, but it
is probably destined before long to
bring about a. revolution not unlike
that which followed the development
of the germ theory. What the medi
cal profession longs to attain Is the
ability to predict and forestall disease
before It actually mature. As long as
physicians are obliged to wait for the
actual outbreak before making up
their minds about the nature of the
malady, their business is a mere em
pirical art, and not a science. The
test of genuine science is the power to
make predictions. The physicist can
do this. He knows with infallible ac
curacy what will result from a given
combination of machines and forces.
The astronomer can predict events in
the sky for thousands of years to
come. The chemist has similar power.
Herice we say that physics, chemistry
and astronomy are true sciences.
Neither the physician nor the politi
cian can predict with any surety the-
consequences of their doses.
The politician passes a law with a
thousand lovely promises of its benefi
cial effects, but experience usually
brings most of them to naught. The
same evil luck pursues the doctor. He
never knows when he administers a
' potion what the precise results will be.
He trusts that they will be curative,
but there is often an unknown factor
which may make them deadly. It Is
the abolishment of this element of un
certainty toward which physicians like
Dr. Murphy are working. He had it
In mind when he told the clinical con
gress that the physician of the future
"would take out the patient's tumor
before the patient tells you the tumor
is there."
There were 10,292 left-handed men
among the 266,270 recruits in the Ger
man army In 1909, and a doctor has
been studying them. He says left-
handedness is apt to be correlated with
constitutional weakness and that the
left hand often or ordinarily, remains
weaker, in spite of exercise. How
does that agree with the records of
our famous "southpaw" pitchers? Sta
tistics of baseball players might be
compared with those of the German
army.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot follows the
illustrious example of Washington In
pleading for a National university at
the Federal capital. In his opinion,
which is valuable, it should be mod
eled upon the original plan of Johns
Hopkins and be made a center of orig
inal research. Since the National As
sociation of State Universities is back
ing the project, it has become some
thing more than a dream. We may
see it carried out. --'
There's a movement on foot to make
the Pullman Company pay the wages
of its porters. The porter Is willing,
provided the wage doesn't run under,
say, $200 a week. Otherwise he would
prefer the present tipping system.
The acme of absurdity has been
reached in Long Island City, where a
funeral procession was stopped while
a chauffeur was arrested and tried for
breaking the speed laws.
The carp and catfish are due to
hold a high Jinks if the Government
confiscates the carload, more or less,
of catsup from California, alleged to
be impure.
. Huerta says he will abide by any
finding Congress may reach. Congress
men, however, will kindly not speak
out of their turn nor above a whisper.
Curses! Huerta Ignored the Admin
istration In his banquet toast to
America. Worse still, he didn't drink
the toast in grapejulce!
Congratulations to Colonel James
Jackson on his eightieth anniversary
today and may he continue to feel as
young as he looks.
A New York funeral procession was
arrested for speeding. Getting too
swift back there to give a chap a re
spectful burial.
Hillshoro and Salem are commended
to France, where the Chamber of Dep
uties Is considering a bill to close 280,.
000 saloons.
When at a loss for ocupation, Mex
ican federals and rebels take Juarez.
That town Is easy to take, but hard to
keep.
From Governor of a great state to
president of a big league is a step
more or less onward and upward.
Serving of cold soup at a St. Louis
supper table resulted in a shooting
affray. It is a serious offense.
The police department bids fair to
develop a rival for Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde among its senior officers.
Few San Francisco women took the
trouble to vote. Was there something
in what Anna Held said?
Huerta ignored the diplomatic crisis
In his "message. The crisis, however.
declines to ignore Huerta.
Hood River is "enjoying" freezing
weather, but that Is a condition that
makes the good apple.
Unless their bellicose chief changes
his mind we shall read shortly of the
last of the Navajos.
Retail prices are the highest In
twenty-three years. And still mov
ing up.
Are the Democrats going to serve
diplomatic posts in relays?
Jokes about Governor Colquitt and
the turkey trot are barred.
This "tough old world Is considerably
wet in spots.
PROTECT SIGHT NOW THE SLOGAN
It la the Only Sense Now Unprotected
From Vicious Acta.
Mall Order Journal.
States and communities are awaken
ing to the importance of doing away
with the billboards, which not only
disfigure the landscape, but also do
great harm to the human eye. In Eu
rope the war on billboard advertising
has already been fought and won. The
French government has simply put bill
boards out of existence by taxing them
higher than any profit that can accrue
from each advertisement.
The blatant billboard nuisance Is oc
cupying public interest in New York,
where it has become insufferable and
a report by a New York commission,
which investigated the issue, will in
Its effect deal a deadly -blow to bill
board ads. .
In that highly interesting report it
Is said:
Of the five human senses that of sight,
the greatest of all. Is least adequately pro
tected. The human person Is theoretically
Inviolate so far as the sense of touch - is
concerned. One man may not lay violent
hands udod another, nor InfUct pain upon
him. Odors which offend the sense of
smell may be restrained as nuisances, and
unnecessary noises which Interfere with per
sonal comfort may be suppressed. There
are rigid laws against the pollution of food
and water by causes which, in addition to
affecting the health, offend the sense of
taste.
But the sense of sight, by which the
quickest and most powerful appeal is made
to the highest faculties, and upon which,
more than upon the other four, human hap
piness depends, la left largely unprotected
We shorten- the hours of labor that man
may enjoy himself. We make large appro
priations or the pu'bllc moneys for the crea
tion of scenio reservations.
But when, as in the City of New York.
the public treasure has been spent to make
parts of the city beautiful, and private
wealth and clvlo pride and the instinctive
desire for attractive surroundings have led
to the (building up of sightly properties, we
find ourselves In a large measure powerless
to protest and to conserve the happiness for
which the sacrifices have been made. This
anomaly would be ridiculous if It were not
so gravely serious.
The commission has made several
general recommendations. They are:
The prohibition of outdoor advertis
lng near parks, publio buildings, boule
vards and any other place in which
they are "wholly Incongruous and det
rlmental." t
An esthetlo censorship of advertising.
The regulation of the neighborhoods
in which signs are allowed, so as to
prevent the accumulation of filth and
rubbish. The closed-in lots are often
a menace to health, and decency ac
cording to the commission.
The prohibition of intense flashing
lights near residence districts, hospi
tals, hotels and other places where they
disturb sleep.
The elimination of the fire and wind
hazard.
The forbidding of all advertisements
except legitimate store or factory signs
upon publio streets.
The limitation of the size of all bill
boards.
Local option to cities upon the mat
ter of allowing billboards within their
limits.
ANOTHER DISEASE IS DISCOVERED
"Itiiocksoinanin" la Final Stage of
"Booaterta" and la Incurable.
PORTLAND, Nov. 19. (To the EdI
tor.) While we have the matter of un
authorized criticisms of city officials
before the house would it not be well
to call attention to the fact that it
often requires a very careful diagnosis
to tell Just when a booster or a booster
organization afflicted with boosteria
arrives at that stage of the disease
known as knocksomania and the boost
er becomes a knocksomaniac, with the
Incurable hallucination that a knock is
a boost?
The sober fact Is that booster busi
ness is often conducted in a very un
businesslike manner and because of
this lack of care and thought as to
what is for the actual welfare of the
entire community the booster gets in
bad sometimes as In the sad case cited
in The Oregonian today.
The only comfort to the friends in a
case where boosteria has been neglect
ed so long that It has developed into
acute knocksomania is that the knock
somaniac does not realize his condi
tion but still thinks he alone is right
and every one else wrong. This is a
sure symptom of the disease. And if
the miracle of a cure should ever hap
pen and the patient recover his nor
mal and healthy booster activity it
would be made known at once by a
frank statement that a cure had been
wrought and that all the unbalanced
attacks on our magistrates and public
officers were but the vaporings of a
knocksomaniac
The good that improvement associa
tions can do Is simply enormous, but
dignity, systematic methods and an ab
solute adherence to their only proper
slogan the community's Interests are
essential to any lasting results.
O. Q. HUGHSON,
608 East Fifty-second street North.
THE GOOD NEW TIMES.
1.
Isn't this a nice old world and aren't
you glad you're here.
And don't one have the bestest time
throughout the whole long year?
Why! I Just love the sun and rain and
all the things I see.
But how I wish my grandpa codda
shared my fun with me!
We've a little old black button set In
brass upon the wall.
If you press It it Just floods the room
with light enough for all.
Now doesn't that beat candles and old
lamps like grandma had?
And when 'you come to think of it I
betcher you are glad.
And now we have electric cars that
whizz along the track
And that beats little horsecars that
they drove a few years back.
And better yet's the auto that con take
you anywhere
And If grandpa codda seen one
wouldn't he Just stop and stare?
The stores we have In our big town
they cover meat a mile.
And you can walk around all day or sit
and rest awhile.
Now, my ma says in grandpa's time the
stores were small and few;
I wish my grandpa codda been a boy
with me and you.
Now, we've a box at our house that
sings the nicest song
And If you change the pie-plate you
can listen all day long
To men who talk or bands that play or
violins so grand
I wish my grandpa codda been still
living in this land.
I can talk to my girl, Emmy, and hear
all she's got to say
And it don't make any difference If
she's forty miles away.
My mother says my grandpa had to
wait most half a year
To hear from his old sweetheart. Gee!
I wish grandpa was here.
But best of all's the picture show,
where you can go and be
Tonight in London or Japan tomorrow
In Parie,
And see the horses and the men and
lions roaming wild
Oh! how I wish my grandpa was again
a little child.
VIRGINIA DRAKE,.
Seaside, Or.
Purpose of an Election.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"I suppose your elections are in
tended to decide who shall hold office."
"Sometimes. But this one Is to decide
who shall b made to let go."
INDIAN'S VIEW OF FLAG EMISSARY
Bxpesn Unneeesaary ss Red Han la
Already Patriotic.
GRAND RONDE. Or, Nov. 19. (To
the Editor.) I am an Indian and I
think as do the biggest part of the In
dian race that I've had any talk with
that Mr. Rodman Wanamaker and his
emissary. Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon,
are spending a lot of unnecessary
money which could be used to a better
advantage otherwise.
There is not an Indian in the United
States that would not without any hesi
tation shoulder a musket In defense of
Old Glory at a moment's notice and
would feel proud to do it. And as to
civilizing my people well it never
will be accomplished until the Govern
ment turns us loose to manage our own
business. So why throw away so many
thousand dollars In some person's ex
penses running around shouting civili
zation with a flag to back them.
What we want is our freedom to
manage our own busienss and also our
rights. There are thousands of In
dians who have not received an allot
ment or anything from old Uncle Sam,
who are entitled to such. It has been
a good many years since the treaties
were made with the different tribes and
a good many have not received their
allotments as yet.
What Wanamaker ought to do is to
spena his money civilizing the whites
who need- It and there are quite a
number. Then if there is still enoue-h
leit, proceed to the Indian DeoDle. but
1 think that he will find that there are
a lot of Indians who are further ad
vanced than their white brethren. Don't
send a white man among the Indians.
but Just the reverse an Indian out
among the whites eo the people will
hear for once our side of the Indian
question as it Is called.
1 saw an article in The Oregonian
Saturday in regard to Indians as
prune pickers. I think they are as
gooa as any and far better than mont
others, only they will drink, of cniirno
It is noticed more than it would be
among the whites. But who la it that
furnishes the dope for our people?
The Indians themselves? Warn th In
dians the first to introduce liquor in
the United States? So why always
ui&nie me Indian people and throw
siurs at them?
Now I drink occasionally but I don't
make it and when I do get any It Is
from a white saloonkeeper and Is not
Bold by my people. So let the people
think that over and see who is to blame
we or the whites. Every man caught
selling to the Indians ought to serve a
term of 10 years In prison and still 1
think it is not severe enough at that.
I am only sorry that we can't furnish
tne necessary funds to send one of our
own people on a tour through the
states and let the public see Just how
tilings are ana now they are being mis
Informed right alone-.
I'd do it myself If I hmi th mnn
Maybe Rodman Wanamaker will rlnl
nate. Ha! ha! I would like to send a
copy or this to every paper in the
Union, but I have not the time nor
tunas to do so. At anv rata T Hnn
think it would even be printed. But, if
you can spare space enough and can
find time enough to makn nn a kb nt
type for this, I would like It to appear
in The Oregonian, as it reaches nearly
n-ii parts oi me united States. I'll say
this much for Mark Hayter: He may be
a good prune raiser, if he wrote the
article in The Oregonian last Satur
uaJ. uui. eucn sentiments as he ex
pressed tend to keep the Indians a
down-trodden class of people. Let him
os a Doosier and not a knocker.
SID WILLING.
COMPARISON'S IN FIREMEN'S PAY,
Assertion Denied That Portland lias
Beat Treated Department In West.
PORTLAND. Nov. 20. (To the Ed
itor.) Kindly allow' me space to an
swer J. E. Wilson's letter concerning
the new system in the Fire Department.
The dissatisfaction is among the mem
bers, and not among the outsiders ex
cept those who sympathize with us.
Under the present system we start at
ISO and get $100 our third year. Un
der the new system it will take seven
years to draw ,100.
Besides, we are required to move
from zone to zone at least once a year,
which will make it very inconvenient,
especially for married men who are
paying for homes in outside districts.
If Mr. Wilson thinks ?50 a month is
good pay for 24 hours a day at this
hazardous Job he has some eye for
business.
1 am positive that Mr. Wilson has
never consulted any of the firemen, as
none of the firemen approve of their
wages being cut after putting in sev
eral years of service.
Mr. Wilson also asserts that there is
a string of people going around to the
different houses telling the firemen
how abused they are. This is also with
out foundation. I think if Mr. Wilson
would investigate a little he would find
that Seattle, Spokane and several other
cities have two shifts, 12 hours on and
12 hours oft, and pay $100 a month. He
asserted that the Portland department
was the best paid in the West. But
even Salt Lake, with only 77 firemen,
pays the same as we do and the men
get every seventh day off, whereas we
get every eighth.
Besides, we have never asked for a
raise in our pay, but do want more
time off; which we are entitled to.
The Mayor and Commissioners only
work six days and rest the seventh,
which is the commandment In the- good
book, which I believe applies to all hu
man beings.
So I believe we are not asking for
anything unreasonable and only stand
for our rights. A FIREMAN.
Who Wrote Poem t
PORTLAND. Nov. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly tell me who
wrote the poem called "If We Knew,"
the first stanza of which Is:
There are gems of wondrous brightness oft
times lying at our feet.
And we pass them, walking thoughtless
down the busy crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken, we
would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading to the
earth some Jewel rare.
I have forgotten the rest, but there
are two more stanzas, one of the lines
of the second being "If we knew what
feet were weary, walking pathways
roughly laid." and the first of the third
being "If we knew what friends around
us feel a want they never tell," and
where I can find the poem.
AN OLD READER.
The "poem Is not In the standard col
lection at the Public Library, and The
Oregonian has been unable to identify
It elsewhere. One of the old Moody
and Sanky hymns Is similar in senti
ment and rythm, but a search of
hymnals has not disclosed this one.
Ferhaj3 some reader of The Oregonian
knows who Is the author and where the
poem may be found.
Tribute to Colonel Jackson.
PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Ed
itor.) I have received an Invitation to
meet an octogenarian at a luncheon in
the Arlington Club tomorrow. This oc
togenarian reported to me 63 years ago
on a battlefield in Vlrgina. He had
won the grade of corporal by recruit
ing over 200 men for war service in the
regular Army.
This octogenarian was in nearly all
the battles of the Army of the Potomac,
won three brev.ets in the Civil and
Indian wars and a medal of honor for
an act of distinguished bravery in the
Modoc War. He is Colonel James
Jackson, Inspector-General of the Ore
gon National Guard.
I pay my respects to Colonel Jack
son In this manner because I will not
be able to be present at his luncheon.
THOMAS M. ANDERSON.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of Nov. 21, 1888.
Indianapolis, Nov. 20. Among nu
merous letter written by General Har
rison were 44 replies to parents who
had informed him that they had named
their babies Benjamin Harrison.
Salem. Or.. Nov. 20. The State Board
of Agriculture today elected the fol
lowing officers: President, J. T. Ap
person: vice-president, Mr. Wilkins;
secretary, J. T. Gregg; treasurer, A.
Bush; chief marshal. T. G. Richmond;
marshal of the. pavilion. A. F. Miller.
Salem, Nov. 20. Hon. Warren Tru-
itt, president of the board of directors
of La Creole Academy, at Dallas, has
called a meeting of the board for next
Saturday to consider the advisability
of erecting a new building.
Corvallls, Nov. 19. The wife of
Wagman St. Clair was found dead In
bed by her husband this morning.
Mrs. James Bayler. who left East
Portland two months ago to visit her
parents In Michigan, has lain danger
ously 111 for six weeks.
Dr. C. B. Smith left on the steamer
S. G. Reed last evening for Cedar
Landing. ,
There should be no trouble about se
curing the Improvement of that slough
of despond on Fifth street, from Q
to the O. R. & N. depot. C. H Dodd.
Captain Flanders and Mr. Plummer. of
Whlttier & Fuller, who own property
there, all express willingness to have
the improvement made.
Draftsmen In Captain Young's office
are preparing an estimate of the cost
of deepening the river between this
city and Oswego sufficient to allow
of the passage of sea-going vessels.
D. W. Prentice Is still 111 at St. Vin
cent's Hospital.
Mrs. A. L. Rlggs has returned from
her Journey by stage through Eastern
Oregon with Earle, the five-year-old
son or her brother, N. K. Rankin.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of Nov. 21, 1863.
(From our Weekly of this morning)
This morning we publish the first
number of our fourteenth volume.
Since The Oregonian was first issued
in 1850 our city has made rapid and
surprising progress in population and
in the arts of civilization and refine
ment. At that time hardly a street
along the bank of the river was oc
cupied by the pioneers of Portland.
Now our thriving. Industrious, enter
prising and intelligent community has
covered a large area with churches,
schoolhouses, dwellings, - warehouses,
stores and shops of busy merchants.
Washington,' Nov. 11. The whole
rebel infantry crossed the Rapidan.
The only forces left on this side are
reconnolterlng parties of Stuart's cav
alry, covering the rebel front on the
south bank of the Rapidan, which they
are fortifying.
New York, Nov. 12. The transport
Daniel Webster, from New Orleans Oc
tober 29, brings news of the departure
from New Oreleans, under Major-Gen-eral
Banks In person, of an expedition
which for some weeks had been fit
ting out under the direction of Major
General Dana.
The board of delegates of the Port
land Fire Department has ordered the
annuel election for chief engineer and
two assistants, to be holden at the
house of Willamette Engine Company
No. 1 on the first Monday In December.
The board has appointed Thomas Tem
ple, of Vigilance No. 1: Hen L. Norden,
of Multnomah No. 2, and Alex Dodge,
of Columbia No. 8, Judges of election.
The new Presbyterian Church, cor
ner of Washington and Second streets,
was yesterday freed from the network
of staging and now stand3 a monu
ment of architectural beauty.
Willamette Theater Tonight the
popular melodrama, "Nick of the
Woods," will be presented with Mr.
Waldron as Nick.
Uiinli float loris for Office.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"What are the duties of the office to
which you desire appointment?" asked
the official. "1 haven't Inquired Into the
duties," replied the applicant. "But," he
added rather reproachfully, "it was
held by a Republican for yrars. And you
oughtn't to have any doubt that what
one of those Republicans can get by
with a first-class Democrat will be able
to do with ease."
Features for
SUNDAY
Thanksgiving With the Pilgrim?
A full page, strikingly illustrated
in colors, recording the first ob
servance of Thanksgiving Day on
American soil.
General Huerta The real story
of Mexico's "grim bulldog." While
he is a born fighter with a will of
steel, yet he was reared in luxury
as a . Mexican gentleman. Illus
trated by Huerta 'a latest photo,
taken only a few weeks ago at the
National Palace, and showing the
dictator as he really is. .
Cranberry Red Doe9 it symbol
ize cruel scratches on tiny hands f
Prom the cranberry bogs comes a
tale that has little of Thanksgiv
ing in it.
The Gamut Club A milepost in
the march of the feminist move
ment. Attractively illustrated.
Seeing Life With John Henry
A new series by GEORGE V. HO
BART, in his best vein. You will
enjoy the humor and gentle satire
of these, tales, which are illustrated
by Carey.
If Eggs Aren't Fresh Who is
to blame for bad eggs? It's the
farmer. Official investigation lays
the blame at bis door and suggests
a remedy.
The Tragedy of Great Inventors
Many and strange are the ca
prices of fate that have overtaken
men of vast achievement. A read
able full page, illustrated.
American Girls Near Royalty
There are many of them who are
close to crowned heads in the line
of nobility. One actually occupied
a throne.
Theodore Eoosevelt In the 36th
weekly installment of his auto
biography he recalls happy days
with books and children at Saga
more Hill.
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