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10 TTTE MOKXIXf OREGONTAX, TUESDAY, APRIIi 7, 1914. PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflca a econd-claaa matter. Subscription Rate Invariably n advance: (BI MAIL) Pally, Sunday Included, one year. . ... .SS-OO Ially. Sunday included, six months... aily, Sunday Included, three moutbi.. 2.25 Zally. Kunday Included, one montn. .To Xaily. without Sunday, one year. ...... 6.00 Iaily. without Sunday, aix months.... a.lta Xaily, without Sunday, three moaUii. , l-t Pally without Sunday, on month. .... .60 Weekly, one year Sunday, one year. -t-"" Sunday and weekly, one yar .......... S.&4) (BI CA-KRlit Daily, Sunday included, one year. .... .$9 00 Daily. Sunday Included, one month... ."5 How to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local back. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. lilve posioftice atldress In full. Including county and state. Postage Bates 12 to 16 paces, 1 cent: Is o 33 pages, 2 cents; S4 to 48 pages, 3 cents: to 60 p-ges. 4 cents; Z to 76 pages, a eants; 78 to V2 pages, centa Forelan post, age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree Cons. Iln, tow York, lirunswick building- Chi cago. Steger building. ban Francisco Office B. J. Bidwell Co.. 42 Market street. rORTLAXD. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1914. 1K BUSINESS IN THE OPEN. These are days of upheaval in the United States Senate. Old customs and privileges and courtesies are be ing cast aside. Our old friend seniority was given a sever blow at the organization of the present Con gress. Courtesy does not restrain our Impulsive Senator Lane from accus ing his colleagues of doctoring re ports. Senator Works proposes that Senators give up their precious pat ronage. Now nine Senators openly declare they will not be bound by the pledge of secrecy as to proceed ings of executive sessions and demand that all sessions be open, with rare exceptions. The executive session has always been more or less of a farce and with the passage of years has become more bo. It has always been possible for a. correspondent to worm the pro ceedings out of a friendly, talkative Senator, particularly when the Sen ator desired his favor and wished to jttve publicity to a particular version of the proceedings. . There have been occasional denunciations of the talk ers, but the Senate dares not bring them to account, for almost, if not quite, all of its members offend. The cause of truth would be served by frank publicity. Public policy has been "made "the ercuse for considering treaties in executive session, but speeches leak out, and probably more harm is done by the distorted versions of proceed ings which reach the public than could result from open discussion. Senators who are anxious to get their views of foreign policy before- the people find opportunities to discuss the subject in open session, and no means have been found -of silencing them. The Senate adheres most tenacious ly to the executive session for con' sidering appointments, probably be- cause things are said on those sub jects which would not look well In iprint. But even that precious prerog ative is now assailed. Angered by a trick which brought about the con firmation of Mr. Daniels as Interstate Commerce Commissioner when they had a good chance of defeating it, nine progressive Republicans are In open revolt. There are good reasons for their protest In the Daniels case Mr. Daniels' record is said to show & bias contrary to prevailing opinion on the regulation of public utilities, Had his record and qualifications been openly discussed, public opinion might have so influenced the Senate that noma members who voted for confirmation would not have dared to do so openly. As the functions of the Government are extended and as more power 1s confided to executive tifnclals, their qualifications become more a matter of public interest and therefore a legitimate subject of pub lic discussion. President "Wilson is a champion of business in the open that is, he was In 1912 and when he wrote "The New Freedom." He could use that great influence over Congress which ihe possesses to no better purpose than In persuading the Senate to do busi ness in the open. If his appoint ments are made on grounds of fitness elone, he should have nothing to fear. swer. The. problem Is solved by col lecting the free electricity which abounds In the air and conducting it by wires to the lamp. A Spanish ex perimenter lighted fifteen lamps by this process the other day. Of course it is but a short step from that to lighting a city. Atmospheric elec tricity Is probably generated by the friction of the strata on one another as the earth rotates and the sun rises and sets. It seems therefore as if we - were about to use the planetary machinery to light our dwellings by night. NOT YET PTJRXFIEDf They say The Oregonian Is" soon to lump onto the famous Milwaukee Tavern and en deavor to close up tsis noted resort that has for years nan despite almost everybody and every official. The Oregonian will bo several years late, but the people will in dorse Its efforts, even If the real object Is more to get "West than the -tavern. Oregon City Courier. . - The Oregonian has no militia at its beck and call and has not yet under taken the herculean task of closing the notorious Milwaukle tavern. Why didn't the Governor leave his militia on the Job? What has be come of the officials of Clackamas County? Why doesn't TJren abolish the Mllwaukie tavern? Has the Courier no county? lino time that It conveys the thought passably well. The President has also altered the latter part, of the Inscription without enhancing Its beauty or meaning. Dr. Elliot wishes to emphasize the truth that "mutual acquaintance among men and nations" Is the prime source of "peace and good will." So he In serts the Illative word "hence" in ex actly the right spot. President Wil son strikes it out and writes simply that the postofflce is "the promoter of mutual acquaintance of peace and good will among men and nations." His , version is less freighted with thought than Dr. Eliot's and no more pleasing to the ear. - But even with the President's faulty amendments the inscription is worthy of Its place and of the American peo- roads are steadily being divided. The millions of depositors in savings banks and the millions of holders of life Insurance policies are indirectly Interested in railroads, for the funds of savings banks and Insurance com panies are Invested in railroad se curities. The interest which deposi tor's and policy holders receive on their money is affected by railroad earnings. The big capitalists no longer own the railroads to anywhere near the extent to which they did; the people own them. No criticism can fairly be made of the efficiency of American railroads. Their capital per mile is less, their service is better, their employes' wages are higher and their rates are lower than those of the railroads In any other country In the world. They pie. whose feeling it is meant to In- I have deserved well of the people and terpret. SOCTHLRX TMALKCTS. There has been some discussion in the newspapers lately about the va ried beauties of the dialects which are spoken in the Southern states of the Union. According to writers who profess to be born and bred to these dialects and to know all about, them their number is countless. Each sec- influence In Its home I tion of country has one or more of What has become of that I its own by which an expert can lo- great temperance and prohibition cate the speaker's residence without crusader, George Brownell7 hesitation. This is easy to believe, The Oregonian ia surprised at the I The poor whites who settled the news from Clackamas about the tav- I Southern colonies In early days have ern that will not stay suppressed. We I moved about but little. In their really thought Clackamas County, mountain homes they have remained seat of empire for both Brownell and isolated for many decades, cherishing U Ben, twin suns or reform, had long I their own peculiar usages and hearti ago been purified. I iy despising the dialectical forms common elsewhere. Thus Innumer- CETTING RESULTS FOR THE PUBLIC. I aDie local peculiarities nave oeen itept i a iva Twelve citizens of Multnomah ' - Those who condemn vivisection be- County have responded to the public varIou3 Soutnern dialects. Another causo " nfHct pain on animals for call to become candidates ror the and no doubt a far TOOre plenteous lne oeneiit or me numan race may State Legislature, Of the twelve, nine part, comes from the negroes. The find comfort in the statement that it their personal candidacy for any of- reared by negro nurses. They play : . . . fc.w.inv .i.h r, of teurs discovery of a vaccine treat- nce no consideration; tnree only naa i ....... -e.- - should be an object of pride to every American citizen; in fact they are, to every American who goes abroad and travels on foreign roads. They no longer interfere in politics; they sincerely try to serve the people and should be given the means to serve them better. To advance rates is good policy. for it would promote prosperity of '.he country and improvement of the oada. It is justice, for the roads are entitled to fair interest on their in vestment, which they do not now re ceive. It la good politics, for if the present stagnation continues till next November, the party in power will get the blame without much inquiry whether it is deserved. If the Ad ministration .wishes to break the as sociation between Democratic rule and hard times, it. will adopt this ready means of bringing prosperity and at the same time doing justice already entered the primary. The entire twelve are representa tive men who are seeking to . dis charge a public duty. They are men who are above the suspicion of per sonal interest or political purpose course this play is not that of social mtnt for anthrax reduced the death. Li.. Th. r.--n hov or srlrl takes of sheep in 1-ranee from 10 per cent The negro boy or girl takes the place of a dog or kitten more than of a human comrade. t- Still, whatever his social status may be. the playmate can talk and his They will go to Salem, if they shall mode of speech is indelibly impressed ho nnmlnaM ' an doctor! nrltV. t I uuuil IIUJ Ulinil o fiefir.it 9im .f r.n.n.nHn nnm, tongue. Their intimate association and efSclency In state, county and city I with neg-oes year after year modifies eovernment. That is all. Most of them I the speech or almost an southerners. have had experience in legislation and nor are the5r ashamed of it. On the i , . I contrary they are rather proud of LUCV 1 1 CV V TT UCCI1 llll Ut 111 1 1 Ull- I - . to 1 per cent and of cattle from S per cent to a quarter of 1 per cent. It killed an epldemio of anthrax in Northern New York in 1906. Similar discoveries extinguished pleuro-pneu- monla among Western cattle and have checked rabies in dogs, cholera and other diseases of mals. CO TO SQCIRRKL. THOU SLUGGARD Writer Draws Lease far Wluter Idle Krone. Industry a( Small AllasL HOOD RIVER. Or., April 6. (To the Editor.) I read in The Oregonian a few days ago that General Coxey will start soon for Washington with an array of idle men. So I am asking permission to offer a few reasons why something should be done In this country to atop this marching of men during the Sum mer and their loafing all Winter. Summer is the time to work and I believe any man who is willing can find plenty of It to do. I am sure they could find work on farms, but most of them would rather stay In our cities and starve than work in the country. I am afraid the good people of our cities are making beggars of the Idle by feeding them. Instead of mak ing them work for their food, and I believe the class of men fed In Portland last Winter will grow larger each year If the men know they will be cared for during the stormy season. I suppose a few of those were hardworking and honest men. but believe moat of them belong to a class that spend all their wages in saloons and picture shows, instead of saving for a rainy day. Now that Spring is with us. 1 will suggest that something be planned in Portland this Summer to give work to the unemployed next Winter. Living near my home in an oak tree Is a little squirrel. She comes to my house nearly every day and scratches on my back door to let me know she is after nuts. As I keep a supply on hand I feed her. and it is with pleasure I watch her work. It makes no difference how hungry Bhe Is, if I give her a whole nut aba will make a trip up the tree and put It away for Winter, but she will eat all I crack of them for her. I sup pose the reason Is. that cracked nuts won't keep until Winter time. At times I give her six or seven nuts and watch her take one after the other to her heno and can see that making so many '.rlpa is hard work as she must stop many times, but when enow comes In Winter she has plenty of foed for her littles ones and herself. I think some of the men-of this coun try could learn a lesson from the squir rel and Instead of being beg cub be come ambitious and happy men. But 1 am afraid many of them are like the aarKy Who sold bis heating- stove In Summer so he could take his family to the circus. When a friend wanted to know why he didn't keep his stove for winter, he said: "De Winter am a long way off, but de ctrcua am today." K. M. B. hog anl- Not enough sermons are preached ... . . i via .mnr.thT.se." o r a nui it. I arainst the neinous sin or maratns up iiHiml (iPT-Ao rarlth thA Tiprpssitv rtr nn I ........ .j... ........ e - - i - ing something - worth while for the ly v. men """' taxpayer and plain citizen. lamce. Other trrvnr! men are candldatM fori ireua oi ouuuittu y the Legislature from Multnomah, no ar, ne mnuence coum oe, par doubt. But for various reasons it is alleled by a great many similar con- - ia. i a i. seauence- wnenever el suDieci rate ectantwelve wToave "bT Tnamed K intimately with it, conquerors. PenUentiary .the ; third of the gallows library books. The people who com mit this offense fall into three classes. those who use ordinary pencils, those who use indelible pencils and those who use ink. The first are worthy of the rockpile. the second of the uy more man ivu guoa citizens, xney i . - - , . i .A,.,. v, .m ,... , v. ... will work together There can be Greeks gave the Romans a rich as- one might forgive them, but they win work togetner. inere can Dei p ,, .,,. I ,v h Th.v Mt lnfalllhlv the It is well known that the conquered If they ever marked a good passage or among theZ v to 4rthey ture. Ve American, barely missed silliest. Their eye for nonsense equal ?V!?jJ?toPUnK bull fights from the Span- the vulture's scent for carrion. sortraent of vices as well as a litera- never do. They select infallibly the a Vi 1 1 1 V. ! , m V. i i .linen Thv will tmt itH Hthn., ".r.tir, war. There is more likely to be an v. - . I , - . . 1 V. tween two races which have fought one another to a finish. WOOL. Before many more Democratic newspapers or Individuals credit this year's higher wool prices to the Dem BRING PROSPERITY AND DO JUSTICE. Prosperity was promised the coun- ocratic free list and try to disconcert I try by the Democracy when it was It is pleasant to think of seeing Sarah Bernhardt again in her bones. if not in her flesh. As & vaudeville queen she was a little out of her proper place. The audiences were not quite up to her and she could not descend to them. When she comes again It will be more seemly if she keeps to the legitimate stage and I P-TO-DATE SCHOOLS. Education has taken a turn in Cook County. Illinois, which will blanch with terror the cheeks of certain pedagogues who lpafn and forget nothing. In a typical school of that section a "parcel post club" has been organized. The members are the schoolboys and girls. The purpose of the- club is to supply certain city customers with eggs, green corn, radishes and other toothsome de lights. The children bring tho prod ucts of their gardens and henneries to school every morning. The club eecretary gives credit to whom credit Is due and the garnered harvest is promptly shipped away to some hun arrv city family. The receipts are divided among the producers in strict proportion to their contributions and the boys and girls do the dividing. That is one of their arithmetic exercises. No stern mentor is required to make them do this task day after day as it arises. Their zeal is quench, less and the accuracy of their results Is subjected to the all-sufficient test of conflicting self-interests. This does not end their practice in arithmetic. They have a way of studying per centage which is equally ominous of pedagogical revolution. In fact they combine percentage botany and agriculture in a way to make one's head swim. Their fath ers are corngrowers. The school' children test the vitality of the seed to be planted and determine what per cent of it is likely to germinate The exercise is said to be almost as beneficial to them as examples printed in a textbook would be. By methods of this sort the Cook County echools are thrusting themselves into practical life and becoming a force in the business and recreation of their patrons. But what pleases us most In their devices is the notion of parcel post clubs. There is no reascm in the world why this Invention should be confined to schoolchildren. Why. should not their parents organize parcel post clubs to ship co-opera tively supplies of produce to city cus tomers? The postofflce is now open to business of this kind. Indeed It is more than open. The Government urgently invites farmers to ship their produce by mall. But ex-idently th Invitation will be more or less futil ss long as the producers remain un organized. growers in the Western press, has I ment's inclination to encourage in- la a heavy owner in Colorado mining been that wool, thousrh protected in I vestment with the prospect of a fair I Drooerty. If his interests continue theory, was In practice no better off I return and would, therefore, stlmu- to expand he shortly will find him than if on tho free list The Under- late industry and enterprise general- self sighing for more worlds to ac wood bill was but the actual blow I ly. . It would start things moving and I quire. from a long-threatening club. thus end the prevailing stagnation. Wool prices this year do indicate, I Prosperity is like a snowball; It however, the measure of prosperity I errows with its progress. It needs that would have been Oregon's had I only to. be started and it will then - The question how to get a cheap electric light is on the way to an. an have disgusted King George to the point where he has decided to demo cratize the court. We may yet see a Labor Unionist a Lord High, Equerry or Master of the Foxhounds. The Oregonian they would do wll to given full control of the Government. lavs to peopie ho remember how read again the Democratic National We were promised lower cost of II v-1 -j , rn if thev platform. ing when the tariff had been revised, do not 8ee the greatriess In her Anai uucuraciu ueuuuucea me Ke- dui mere is no pmeyuuji! now they will look and listen kindly ntihlinan tariff r-.l ( . ... tViA. 1 nfnAC W .-. .-..a nrftmli:0l pr.il fPT I ' - " " . f.... - ' " l for old takes sake. mat unaer it me iarmer sells largely i export iraae ior our minuuciurcra, in iree murjteui ana ouys almost en- dui me government 6Laiiamo uu 1 . . . . - tirely in the protected markets." show it. We were promised emancl- J.lr h cnsVarf.aW W The Democratic platform also as- pation of business by the Underwood ?i " v-, lofJe to the cribes the high cost of living largely tariff and tho currency law, but busl to a protective tariff. Tet the tariff ness is stagnant. wool has been removed and the I We may be informed that the ef- price of wool to the producer, and 1 fects of these measures can only be onsequently to the consumer, has! felt gradually, but the beneficial er- It inevitably follows either that felt immediately. That is, the grant The Marlon grand Jury thinks other elements have affected wool or of the 5 per cent advance in freight $16.54' per. capita coat of the penl ta. iii i ,i, T..t- ... i viti- th. t-.iimie That tentiary too high and would put the the price of the farmers' products measure would immediately strength- convicts at work to reduce it- But while free trade increases the prices en the credit of railroads, enabling how shall they work? Not in corn- paid by the consumer and adds to them to make much-needed improve- petition l' , ui''., " the high cost of living. Unless wool I ments in their lines and equipment- mac vtouia is An pTrpntlnn thA th-nrv of t Vi ThnM 1m rtrnvementss would furnish 1 Democratic tariff nolicv ia absolutely I emnlnvment to thousands of men. I The first Minister of the new Chi- at fault. both on the railroads and in the mills nese republic nas arrivea aecaea out But raw wool haa not for several which Kiinnlv material. The buying in European garb. JNOW it ne can ftars had the advantages of the tariff nowe.r of these - men would be in- acquire a cockney accent ana a mono- protection that the law purported to creased, giving a stimulus to manu- cle he ought to feel right at home give it. It has long been the goat of factures and consequently to traffic, arouna tne capital. tariff agitation and the effect, as has This act of Justice to the railroads been vociferously complained of by I would be an earnest of the Govern- it now develops that Rockefeller Housewife "Vaata Meat Inspection, PORTLAND, April . (To the Edi tor.) Kind y allow a housewife space for a few words in the meat inspection controversy. The meat inspection la certainly a vital point In our dally life, and I am aure I speak for the thousand homes when I sincerely ur our ad ministration to give us satisfactory protection against bad meat. Remarkable la It Indeed to see what a sad confusion as to right and wrong there must be In some lawyers' and butchers brains. According to a recent report In The Oregonian. one lawyer ridicules, mat trie law shall tell butch ers what to sell or not. and another that inspectors be allowed to condemn meat unfit for food because It will cause loss to the butcher. A man who cannot live on anything else than to aell us poisonous meat Is certainly an undesirable citizen and has no risht to exist- There must ba an honest, useful way of living for us ail, or we are parasites and ought not to be excused. The talk about ex penses in this case is quite malplaced. inere aeem to be many aroused when the talk is about water meters; much more necessary it is to see that we are not poisoned. Let us have a proper, ade 'quate meat inspection here as in other civilized countries, where no meat whatever la sold without inspection. HOUSEWIFE. LOGICAL RESULT OF RATIONALISM It Leads te Peaslsalasa or Lower Plane f Bring, gays Writer. PORTLAND. April S. (To the Edi tor.) We havo been hearing at the Publlo Library lecture hall Sunday nights an exposition of religion from the rationalist point of view, to which I want to take exception. I desire to point out the hopeless inadequacy' of the rationalist explanation of religion. Religion Is an Instinctive reaching out of the human spirit toward the iniinite. inereiore religion Justifies itself and Is above reason. The man who takea reason as bis final guide in all things is rather to be pitied than condemned. He drifts from nothing to nowhere. He finds, sooner or later, that he has been laying nought but "the foundations for unyielding de- spair. ins world - order becomes meaningless and life Itself without ul timate aim or purpose. The logical outcome of rationalism la either pes simism, cynicism or sensualism. Re ligion alone can lift man to the higher planes of being. True, in a limited way, reason aids us In ordering a few transient, superficial Interests of life. Mankind has long admitted that It serves a certain prac tical purpose when applied to the workaday world. But in the life of the aoul reason plays no part. Religion expresses this life of the spirit. It la a higher function of life than reason or intelligence. It supplies needs that reason can never satisfy. Art, music and poety at their best are admittedly outpourings of the soul, aa it seeks to reveal one phase of Its nature. (Similarly religion is the spir itual expression or the finest and subl'.mest Impulses of humanity, striv ing to understand and attain perfec tion, or God. What rationalist who still retains vestiges of the finer in sight would think of denying; the beauty and truth In poetry, music and art! Are not these values immediately felt without recourse to logical process or anaiyaia? li this be granted, how much more absurd. If no Indeed pre sumptuous, to attempt to reduce reli gious values to rational categories. In fact, when we examine the ra tlonalisfa activities carefully we find nim eventually discarding his own all sufficient touchstone and falling back on a dogmatic, individualistic mya- ticlsm. He himself cornea to feel the barrenness of reason In supplying the more subtle emotional and spiritual needs of humanity. liow doea the rationalist find at least a measure of Inward harmony and contentment 7 By affirming pas aionately his own liberty, or the dig nity of mankind, or the rights of the oppressed, or the need for nobility of character, or the sacrednesa of life, or the beauty of devotion to an ideal. Hut these declarations, often put forth with an evacgellstlo fervor, are themselves arbitrary and quite Independent of any process of thinking. Reason ran never prove them true. They are felt to be true by those who announce them be cause they are of that order of truth which presents a claim for validity to our consciousness for immediate ac- ceptance. These are the intuitional urglngs that surpasses Intelligence. Thus the rationalist turns mystic, often without realizing it. Falling to sea that his own Ideas and activity spring from the mysterious forces that pulse and throb within the human spirit, he not Infrequently becomes the most Intolerant of dogmatists. He re fuses to concede the value of truth of any mysticism but his own. He thun ders denunciations and anathemas as if he were the infallible source of all things final and good. In short, he goes on his destructive way until he sinks into the grave, unless redeemed by an inner illumination that dawns upon hia path and brings sweetness and a widely Inclusive love akin to the di vine into his life and work. EX-RATIONALIST. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of April 7. 1S8. ine heaviest snowstorm of the eel- son prevaila throughout the East. Washington. April Max Prachu of Ashlitnd. Or., haa been recommended the President for Collector of Cus- ' toms at rMtka. Colfax. W. T.. April . The North ern Pacific Railroad Company placed a line of steamers on the bnake River yesterday In opposition to thoae of the O. R. ac N. Co. Salem. April 8. Articles of Incor. poratlon of the Home Investment Com. pany were filed yesterday by E. R. Ad ams. C, J. Reed. B. B. Tuttle, RalpR W. Hoyt and N. L Boise Albany. April s. The Oregon Pacific Railroad Company ia considering bids for contracts on the eastward extension of its line. Berlin. April . The Emperor baa freely expressed a determination to make Germany a naval power of the first rank. Miss Maude Plttock, after visiting relatives and friends the past three months, has returned to her home in Victoria, B. C. The wedding of Miss Kate Goodwin and G. B. Markle. Jr.. will be cele brated some time before June Mr. Ed Wrtaiit. the city editor of the Astoria Pioneer. Is visiting the city. J. C. Todd has been circulating a petition asking that the franchise granted the Transcontinental Street Railway Company for extending it tracks on Twenty-first street from S to the stables, be annulled. Hon. 1. T. Barln. of Oregon City. chairman of the Republican state cen tral committee. returned yesterday from Washington. Rev. Dr. Dietrich, pastor of the Ger man Lutheran Church of this city, will start for Dakota thla evening to get his family. He will bring with him a number of German families to make their homes near Portland. Georice Lanaford yesterday took a contract to point the stonework, build the ateps and grade the courts of the big hotel. The will cf the late Mrs. Esther Hol laday was filed for probate yesterday. In bequeaths the entire estate, worth not over 1240.000. to her two children. Linda and Ben Car.ipbell Holladay. H. rtesrel drove a delivery wagon on the sidewalk on Fourth street. East Portland, yesterday, when the timbers of the elevated roadway gave way and he and the team were precipitated Into the alough IS feet below. Segel's arm was broken and one of the horses bad to be shot- H&lf a Century Ag A Spanish -inventor having dem onstrated that electricty for lighting f- n n Vi rlrflwn from the air. no doubt a duty on wool been definitely re-1 travel with its own momentum and I that commodity will shortly enter our lungs through the medium of meters. tained by the Democratic Adminis-1 eather accretions as it goes. tration and the menace to the Indus- Those who oppose the rate advance try thus wholly swept away. The I rehash old accusations against the woolgrowers would be receiving still I railroads, many of which are out of higher prices. They are now selling I date, for the abuses mentioned have in a free market and are paying pro-I been corrected. The railroads now tective prices for the articles into I cheerfully submit to National and which wool is made. If to say this I state regulation. Some are accused 1. "haifinir K . Wllunn i ifmttilcf ... I . tl lartA BhlnnfitM tion," then the National platform of in the shape of free switching and h"d 1? Mr. Wilson's party is equally guilty, exorbitant allowances for industrial roads. Then let punishment oe vis ited on them, not on tho innocent with them. The fact that one ex ceptionally fortunate road, the New Tork Central, in 1913 showed an in- Tho Huerta government has decid ed to arrest all persons spreading alarmina- news about Torreon. That Is one way of "holding" the place. All good Christians are urged to in prayer Friday noon. A word or two ior tne Admin istration would not be amiss. Give la Competent Officials. PORTLAND. April 5 (To the Ed itor.) The move to induce competent business men to run for the office of Assemblyman or Legislator Is one of the best schemes that has come up for a long time, and the only way to weed out the graft that is burdening the people to death. The Idea of men of small means and intelligence spending time and money seeking an office that pays In honest money less than the average laborer gets is bad on the face of it. "A fool or grafter in office is more dangerous than a fool with a gun." A grafting official ought to be court martialed and shot like a hydrophobic dog. He is a disgrace to civilization. While they are not all grafters, their work Is so shamefully Incompetent that the resulta are practically the same. Boost for good men. competent men. and honest men. W. R. HA1ZLIP. Good Sense. Strand. To Lady Cardigan, by the way. la attributed the following somewhat pert comment, when a very Ignorant person was complimented on his good sense In her presence: "I don t wonder." she said, "at his possessing a large stock of good sense. Ho never spends any. With twelve responsible citizens willing to run for the Legislature from Multnomah County, taxpayers can draw an easier breath. THE PRESIDENT AS AN EDITOR. President Wilson has edited the lines which Dr. Charles W. Eliot composed for inscriptions upon the crease in percentage of net income to pavilions of the new postofflce build- capital is cited as proof that the Ing in Washington and it may be that complaint of the railroads is unfound- ln some particulars he has improved I ed. The broad fact remains that, tak- them. Whether that be so or not it I ing thirty-five Eastern roads togeth is pretty certain that the distinguished er. in the year 1913 their net earn- n..nr.DManf r T-I j .-t-!i ii ill wao-jA I I CIA 911 HOO 1 . i than In Mr. Wilson's revisory work with re- 1910, though their investment was ; ,., "I, " ' " . .1 .1 n v.l 1 . 1 .- rtrwi nn . .. .- At tht. t-utAln. I OI aiMlto uy ili. .i iiji ..vuiu iivk of our contemporaries, commenting terest on capital will soon reach the 00 " p- "u iiron the Incident, remarks, both Dr. I vanlchlntr nolnt. Seelna: this. Investors I ""'"'J " Eliot and President Wilson are used I fisrht shy of railroads and the public to beinsr criticised and have learned I suffers In inadequate means of not to eat their hearts out because I transit. they cannot always have their own! Wait till physical valuation is corn way about literature or life. As Dr. I pleted, say some, and then we shall Johnson puts it in Rasselas, A man I have a basis for a decision. The in used to vicissitudes is not easily de-1 terstate Commerce Commission says jected," by editors or any other man- I valuation will take six years and the lfestation of unkindlv nature. - I business of the country cannot be at Dr. Eliot suggested this for the lowed to stagnate for that length of cnaracter. east pavilion: "Carrier of news and 1 time. The Commission has not knowledge. Instrument of trade and awaited valuation before making nu- commerce. Promoter of mutual ac- merous reductions in rates; why quaintance among men and nations should it wait before making an ad- and hence of peace and good wilL" vance? Wages and taxes have been Mr. Wilson strikes out the word I increased and are the chief cause of "commerce" and puts "industry" in I reduced net earnings, for gross earn place of it, so that this clause runs, I ings have increased. Prices of other "instrument of trade and industry." I commodities rise and rail with in To our mind he has not improved I crease or decrease of "costs; why it. The line is now cacophonous on should the price of transportation re- Bernhardt Is coming for another tour of the United States. Is this to be her farewell farewell tour or mere ly another farewell tour? A Florida millionaire of 75 has se cured an 18-year-old bride for $100. 000. Moral: Marry early and get one for nothing. The Portland buffalo bull is going to San Francisco for his health. The old fellow has a few human traits of With Easter approaching, father discards the fragrant Havana once more and resumes his pungent pipe. Huerta has cancelled the papers of the American Consul at Torreon. But Huerta has lost his say In Torreon. Old John Barleycorn has been dis honorably discharged from the Navy. account of the recurrence of the two syllables "in." "Commerce," of course, repeats the idea of "trade" . and is therefore objectionable. Cannot some great genius be found who is able to get around . both difficulties ? Were we hot too modest we should propose "Instrument of trade and enterprise," which is a. ' mellifluous line ut the main the same when its cost has risen? The old cry is raised that the big capitalists ask the increase. The an swer is that the railroads are falling into the hands of small capitalists. The Pennsylvania Railroad system alone has 100,000 stockholders and the large holdings of the -principal That new skillet hat promises to be a hot article. Oregon stone for Oregon buildings! Make it strong. Chicago women will make history today- YVIIO KNOWS r Alone on lonely roads while nature sleeps And distant bell the midnight hour does toll. A Weeping Willow tree here kindly keeps Beneath Its shroud a blighted human soul. ' A gentle Zephyr sweeping softly by Makes ahlv'rlng leaves seem nervous of their care: The gllt'rlng stars are blinking from on high And seem to watch that here no lila can fare. Beneath this shroud a mother's darling lies. A fantom shadow of her former bloom. With wringing bands and qulvrlng lips she cries: "Take me to you. Oh Lord, make thia my doom! The voice is stilled, the tearful eyes grow dim. And trembling hands are sinking by her side. No more to her the "Serpent's tongue' can cling: She rests at last she bridged the "Great Divide." A mother's hope, a father's only pride Llea here accursed by Ignorance and creed; Where "Lords of Gold" and priestly saints deride A mother's prayer for "Justice" to be freed. Shall she condemned on altar's fire be laid For you and, me to mock, deride and hate? Are human souls by Master's hand so made. That love at best, might meet this self same fate? Where art thou man that can In judg ment sit Upon thy throne of arrogance and acorn; When twilight thoughts, by conscience's lamp be lit With knowledge that of woman thou art born? Was she a wreck through Nature's hand or those Who curse, condemn and never will forbear? Who knows, but she, the blighted hu man rose. In yonder realm the "Golden Crown shall wear? P. K EXE BO. Portland, Or. BVK.VT OF WIDESPREAD BliEKIT Everybody Should lie Interested la Willamette Valley Chautauqua. CA.NET. Or April S (To the Ed itor.) Swollen buds, opening flowers, caroling feathered songBlers. and the calendar, each announces the presence of an annual seed time. Nature In her multifarious moods and voices, is al ways anticipating and advertising the coming presence and purpose of her regular events. While patiently watch ing for, and quietly listening thereto. It seemed that something as "the voice of many waters" was saying, and constantly singing or ought . to be conatantly thus engaged in calling out the fact that the old Willamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly, at its historic trystinir place. In Gladstone. Or., where rolls the pure green-blue Clackamas, will In this good year of grace outdo by far any of its former successful sessions. And why not? This oldest and most successful Chautauqua of the state, now out of its financial embarrass ment, and thus "out of the woods," can and will be. by leaps and bounds and more to follow, the best ever had in its history of a score of years. i.verybody from the crest of the Cas cade Mountains to the east, to the purpling wavea of the sundown sea on the west, and from Eugene City on me aontn. to wnere rolls the Oregon on the north. Is. and ought to be more greatly and vitally Interested in thla leading annual outing school of the state. While this school of Intellectual and moral ethics Is situated near Ore gon City, and ia one of that city's best social and moral assets, yet in Its larger sense It ia as much the prop erty or the entire Willamette Valley. from which It takes its name. So that every city, every county and every organization of people In state or church within Its legitimate territory la Indebted thereto and more or less affected favorably thereby and should. therefore, give thereto their united sympathy and best possible aupport Every newspaper in the territory owes it alike to itself and ita patrona to give liberal and sympathetic apace to Its support. The school superintend enta and teachera of every county owe It to posterity to cultivate sympathetic regard for thla Summer school of fine promise In its exceptional curriculum and grade. Every pastor of every church, loyal to the National flag, owes an obligation to this institution, which would impel occasional public state ments. sermons or addresses from them favorable to the enterprise. The Grange organizations of the whole country and the civlo and social cluba of every city and town in its patronizing territory should be able to ee an able and popular ally to that or their own work in thla assembly. that would put them Into cordial and helpful sympathy therewith. Portland, slra, Albany and Eugene, with the leading towns of the west side of the valley, should each have ita day upon the annual programme of its sessions. Every publlo and private educational institution of the territory, of at least academic grade, should have ample and creditable headquarters upon tht aasembly campus annually, as should every church denomination, loving the star epanitied Banner- 01 the Union. Let this all be attended to in time. and in the proper spirit, and the Wil lamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly shall have come into Its own which It so richly deserves. A. J. JOSLTX, Can by. Or. From The Orearonlan of April 7. 18M. The recent enormous frauds on the Government are arousing general at tention to the necessity of having hon est and efficient officers in civil as well as military departments. The evil mainly grows out of the present system of appointments to office aa rewards for political service. One remedy may be found in the system of examina tions of competitors for office adopted by European governments. The authorities of some of the states east of the Rocky Mountains are be coming alarmed at the wonderful rush of the people towards the Pacific and are putting out paper vetoes against any movement. Governor Stone, of Iowa, haa lttsued a proclamation to pre vent the great exodus to the Idaho mines and thereby avoid the draft. We hear of a farmer from Douglas County who went up the Columbia on Tuesday by the Wilson . Hunt with his team, wagon and :0uu pounds of bacon. He consumed 11 days in reach ing this city from his home, and will proceed by land from The Dalles to La Grande, where he proposes to sell out. The Clipper schooner Jenny Jones baa been libeled, together with 30 casks of ale and 0 casks of porter. The case was before Judge Deady in the United States District Court on Tuesday. Communication is still cut off beyond Salem. The damage done to the tele graph line by the recent storm Is Im mense, seven trees were Diown across it btween Aurora and Salem. S. Snyder came from Vancouver yesterday to put it in order. W. C. T. V. Doubly Bereaved. PORTLAND. April 6. (To the Ed itor.) The Woman'a Christian Tem perance Union of Oregon haa just ex perienced a great bereavement in tne death of their beloved state president. Mrs. Edith Hill Booker, and ere her body Is laid to rest there flashes over the wires newa of the calling home of our National president. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens. That a great thinker, states man and remarkably talented woman has-passed out, no'one wfll Question. Her distinguished qualities were rec ognised not only by the organization she has so ably and successfully repre sented for 1 years, but by the world over. As vice-president of the World's Woman'a Christian Temperance Union, she gave proof of her marvelous abil ity and efficiency as a leader in world wide movements. That there will be no confusion In the plans of the great organisation we are assured. Her trained and efficient staff of workers will develop her plans without a break. W e of Oregon, who realise her worth and gladly followed her leadership, are plunged by her go ing into a grief which no words can express. Officers Woman'a Christian Temper ance Union of Oregon, by mrs. w. sworn. Tawe Lawyer. PORTLAND. April S. (To the Edi tor.) Please advise who the leading attorney for Harry K. Thaw is and his postofflce address. INQUIRY. William A. Stone. Frlck building An nex. Pittsburg. Pa. 33 Peuada la Right. FAULINA. Or, April 1. (To the Ed itor.) How many pounds of oats arc there In a bushel according to Oregon Law? It was 3 2 pounds, but some say it has been changed to S pounds. A SUBSCRIBER No. NEHALEM. Or.. April !. (To the Editor.) Can a caucus, or assembly of voters, legally nominate more than one person for each office? This Is being discussed with much excitement in thla place, some Insisting that two or more nominees can be placed on the ballot for each office by one assembly. If such is the will of the assembly. This Is a town of le than 20110 in habitants. AGNES HANDLE. Footwear Fancies Every woman lovea dainty foot wear. In former yeara she had comparatively little opportunity to gratify her fancy In this respect. Now every color and style of footwear is in use from the most exquisite evening slipper to the sturdiest boot Leathers in colors never seen before, fabrtca of numberleaa shades and patterns, heels that range from a single - "lift" through every conceivable curve to a three inch "Louie." tongues and buckles, ribbons and buttons All are waiting to delight the eye of the discriminating woman. You can learn from the adver tisements in The Oregonian what the retailers are prepared to sell you and the prlcea thereof. Rea-u these announcements care fully and save time, in making vour selections.