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10 THE HORSING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1915. lOKTLAD, OREGON. EntertM at Portland. Oregon, jpostolfice mtciTid-ciase matter. jlijscnptiua Kate Invariably In advance: (By Mall.) 3Uy. Sunday Included, one year ... Xs;!y, t-'un.iay Included, six months . CDtiily, Sunday- LncJud-?d, three months X runday included, on moo tlx Uaiiy. w iihout Sunday, one year I'sily, without Sunuty, six months .. X'a J, iihout Sunday, throe months IaJJy. without Suae ay. one month ... M';UIy, one year . . . ; fc uii'iav, one year , ........a... Sunday aud Weekly one year ........ i By Carrier.) Jaii. Punnav included, one year S9.X) Ualy, bun Jay Included one month. ..... . Ifow te Rrmtl Send Post office money or 1cr. express order oo personal check on your nanK. fc ramps, coin or currency are i stinjrr s risk. Give pos toff left address in lull, ibcrudiii cuunty and state. rpamare states 12 to It pages, l oent; 18 z cents; si to 44 pacrs, sui ftO to CO die's. 4 cents: 2 to 7t pages, , c:nt5: H to !i pages, U cents. Foreign post -e, o-jjoie rates. lttrn Rusiime Office Veree Conk .n. ,jw York. Brunswick building-, Chicago. f.enjwr building. fan KranHs-o OffW R. J. Bid oil Com pari, market street. ...$S.OO :: tH . . w .. l.VI .. i(.S0 . . Ho PORTLAND. TlllRSDTT, JAN. S. WIS. AI.A.-K.VS FAHHWORK GOVERNMENT. Utter incompetence of Congress to make proper provision for the govern ment of Alaska is shown by Secretary of the Interior Lane in an article in the Outlook entitled "Red Tape in Alaska." Control of the affairs of that territory is divided among all the de partments at Washington, and author. ity overlaps and conflicts at numerous points. Local officials have limited authority, and many questions which should be decided promptly on the spot arc referred to officials at far away Washington, who are ignorant of the conditions upon which largely the decision must be based. Mr. Lane cites several examples of the confusion resulting from what he well terms "the patchwork system of administrative machinery," and from the absence of men on the spot who are endowed with full authority. A man who wished to leas an island for a fox-farm corresponded for months with three departments to learn who had the necessary authority, and dis covered finally that none had the au- thority. Care of the black bear is in trusted to one department, that Of the brown bear to another. Mr. Lane says: "The control of lands is in one de partment, of forests in ' another, of roads in another, of fisheries in a fourth and 'of railways in still . an other." The people of Valdez applied for a townsite survey in March, 1899, but did not secure patent until March, 1912. Instead of police to enforce all the -laws, there are forest rangers, game wardens, protectors of f ur-bear- itie- animals, reindeer guards, bird wardens, multiplying cost and impair ing efficiency. An indisputable case is made for Mr. Lane's scheme to create a develop ment board which shall have charge of all the resources of Alaska, com posed of residents of the territory, with full authority under the direc- tion of a single Cabinet officer. For all practical purposes of admlnistra tlon, Alaska is as remote from our seat of government as are the Philip pines or Porto Rico. Great Britain might as well attempt to rule India and her colonies in every detail from London as the United States attempt to govern Alaska from Washington "We should do with Alaska as we have done with the Philippines establish a separate government by an organic law, subject only to the general con trol of the Government at Washing ton.' Then Alaska would progress. demonstrate good faith and financial responsibility. If the royalties offered are reason able and if it be stipulated that devel opment shall begin within a brief period and carried out at a reasonable rate of progress and the lease is. guar anteed by an adequate bond, reason able safeguards are thereby provided. If -under such terms work is not com menced and prosecuted diligently the bond and the lease will have been forfeited and the State Land Board, which in fact has the power to lease the . lakes without approval by the Legislature, can then invite new bids. The tie-up will be short if the lakes are actually inviting to capital.,- The financial responsibility of a bidder is pretty well established if he can ne gotiate an adequate bond forfeitable if he fails to prosecute a reasonable amount of development work within a short period. Oregon's greatest need is new in d us tries. It has many latent resources of vast potential value. The state must not encourage private enterprise to gamble on any resource it possesses, but on the other hand it is a matter of sound wisdom that every encour agement and no detriments be offered to legitimate enterprise. Let us hope that the Legislature in this matter will give Oregon a reputation for sound business judgment and disposition to meet capital half way. , this Commission Is of little Importance when compared with the terrible loss occasioned by the exercise of the pres ent method." The question is: Can he get his party to see it and to take out of politics the only issue on which It has succeeded in electing a Presi dent since the Civil War? , . A MATTL.lt OF BUSINESS. The proposal for the lease of Sum mcr and Abcrt Lakes in Central Ore run, now before the Legislature, reads like a fairy tale. But it is a falry story of the substantial kind that ap peals to the pockctbook as well as the imagination. The two lakes involved are Impreg nated with salts of commercial value, provided they can be extracted. It is acknowledged by the State Land Board that their own experts, on the assumption that there is- no known process for the commercially profit able extraction of the salts, have re ported that the lakes are practically valueless. But one group of bidders asserts that it has made experiments with the waters of the lakes shipped to the Niagara hydro-electrio plant and that a process has been devised for reduc tion and separation of the salts that is practicable. These bidders, represent ed by Mr. Jason Moore, aver, however, that the hydro-electric plant necessary to extract and separate the salts would not be a profitable investment if de voted to the one purpose. ' They repre sent that they have taken options on vast quantities of phosphate rock in Wwiiing, that it is their intention to pipe the waters of the lakes more than "oO miles to the mouth of the Des chutes River, and there erect a hydro electric plant and use the salts and phosphate rock in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers and falts by products. They propose to invest something like J 1 0. 000. 000 in the en terprise and build up an enormous Industry. The minimum royalties to be received by the state for the forty year period of the lease are $25,000 annually. They may run to $127,000 annually.' Clearly .the Legislature should not adjourn without taking some action looking to the development of the great enterprise promised by a lease of the lakes. There are several im portant phases to be considered. The revenue from the leases will go to the school fund. The school fund is en titled to fair royalties. Tet knowledge as to what can be done commercially with the water of the lakes is so in definite that other considerations than royalties perhups ha.ve paramount im portance. The developmentof a great industry will produce taxable property which will provide further revenues for the schools and other government. at necessities. , It will give employ ment to many men, promote traffic, provide American nitrates to take the place of an equivalent amount of im ported fertilizers, and otherwise build up Oregon. Withal it is one of the most important developments ever of fered the state. Essentially there should be an ade quate guarantee of good faith. The state must not be a party to a promo tion scheme which contemplates the flooding of the country with stock in an uncertain enterprise. The bidders who can demonstrate that they are backing confidence with accumulated capital are entitled to the preference jf other necessary conditions -e met. Certainly it is unwise to i ip the lakes on a long lease to pels-... is who cannot in some way demonstrate good intent and adequate responsibility simply because they offer a little l.-ircer revenues to the state than do oilier bidders who can in some wyj PLAIN' SAILING. The opinion of Attorney-General Brown throws a clear light upon the duty of the Legislature toward the proposed prohibition law. It is in ef fect that there is no particular halo of legislative sanctity about it that pre vents Its consideration in the same fashion as other laws. The people by their sovereign act passed last .Novem ber a constitutional amendment pro hibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor in Oregon. It is incumbent upon the Legislature asa consequence to enact a statute to make the amend ment effective. That is all there is to it. But there has been heavy pressure on the Legislature to'put an emer gency clause on the hill so as to pre vent the referendum. A wiser sug gestion has been to let the bill take its usual course and to provide a special lection prior to January 1, 1916, in case there should be a referendum. Now the Attorney-General shows also how an emergency clause, putting the new law into effect at once, could leave the home rule act operative un- 1918, when the constitutional amendment ifoes into effect, and would accomplish nothing for the present year. The drastic and inde fensible emergency act indefensible and unconstitutional unless it is liter ally for the public health, peace, ea safety would merely muddy the waters. Our prohibition friends may have plain sailing without resort to gag rule or snap judgment. They have the people with them, and they have a Legislature disposed to go the legal limit for them. The state is deter mined to give prohibition a fair trial. BEAUTIFULLY FAT. Ever since Verdi composed his opera "Aida" a furious discussion has raged over the question how the lovely heroine grow so enchantingly fat. Was it natural or was some mystical proc ess employed to produce the bewitch ing result? Verdi, as everybody knows, went to Herodotus for his story and that lively historian gives an account of a way the upper Egyp tians had of artificially fattening their women to make them beautiful. Skeptical minds have doubted his word, but discoveries lately made by the University of Pennsylvania's ex ploration fund completely establish his veracity. Excavations supported by this fund under the direction of Dr. C. Bishop have brought to light among thousands of other relics a bronze bowl engraved with scenes from the domestic life of a certain princess. The beauteous creature is depicted consuming the warm milk freshly drawn from ten cows. There are a number of distinct views of the princess, and in each she is fatter than before, demonstrating the pul- chritudinous effect of her diet. In the last one she has become quite spherical, which was the form of beauty most admired in Upper Egypt n those days. Since Verdi's "Aida" was of the same time and country, we may jus tifiably suppose that she acquired her fascinating rotundity by the same process. No doubt she consumed daily the warm milk from ten or a dozen cw. We need not point out the les son this conveys to those modern women who Buffer from excessive planiformity. It is to be hoped that the University of Pennsylvania will pursue with unrelenting vigor these explorations so big with blessings to our sister pilgrims. PROGRESS OF THE TWILIGHT SLEEP. Readers 'Of the Countess von Ar- nim's new and charming novel, "The Pastor's Wife," must have been struck with one incident in particular. It relates to the first children born to the heroine of the book and her sister Julia. The latter married an Oxford dignitary and brought her firstborn into the world under the benign influ ence of an anesthetic. The former, married to a German pastor and liv ing amid the Kultur of East Prussia, went through her ordeal with no other assistance than that of the local mid wife, who never had known very much and who from age and decrepi tude had forgotten even that. But the pastor and his friends did not believe that any particular knowledge or skill were required to help a woman through childbirth. The process had been all arranged by the Almighty millions of years ago. He had die tated precisely the quantity of pain which a prospective mother should suffer and the peril she should under go. Any interference with these ar rangements was impious. So the hero ine lay in agony for three or four days and barely escaped with her life, while Julia felt no pain whatever and eluded all danger. The majority of women are coming to the conclusion that Julia was far wiser than her sister's husband. There is no longer any reason except super stition and ignorance why women should suffer miserably in childbirth. Modern medicine has given them the means of immunity and it is agree able to learn that they are rapidly availing themselves of the new discov eries. A twilight Bleep committee has been organized in New York to edu cate prospective mothers upon this subject. At its meeting the other day three women whose babies were born n twilight sleep reported their experi ences. The first bore three children under the old conditions. For the fourth she went to Freiburg, where the twilight sleep originated and sub mitted herself to the physicians. "I sank Into a restful sleep," she said "and awoke the next morning as I do every day of my life." But while she slumbered and slept the baby was born. . The second woman" had been to Freiburg three times for the same purpose. Her account confirmed all that the first had said. But she added earnestly that "All people should go on their knees and thank God for this painless method of childbirth." The third was a schoolteacher, the famous one, in fact, who lost her situation" to bear a child. Her opinion was that "if male physicians had to undergo the pains of childbirth they would not hesitate one minute about using the twilight sleep." It is in fact quite noticeable that males are more .willing to let women suffer pain than to bear It themselves. It is comparatively easy to be resigned to the divine will when it merely affects one's wife. while many others will go thither by the southern route and return by the northern route. A considerable pro portion of these people will readily pay the extra cost of seeing Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Co lumbia. The Portland Rose Festival in June will be an especially strong attraction. Purpose of Oregon Hop. growers' Association. IT1HE purpose of the Oregon Hop I growers' Association is presented herewith in a statement prepared by an officer of the organization on for the fame of Portland's pageant has request of The Oregonian. An exten- spread-through the land. That event sive campaign covering three states is may be expected to mark the high under way, and it is of importance to tide of exposition travel through the -the many hopgrowers in Oregon. Was. Oregon metropolis. The Los Angeles ington and California that they know Times estimating - the special-train I something of this association which tourists to that city at 50,000, it does I doubtless will have 'a big influence on not seem extravagant to estimate that I what is termed "the largest unorgan- of these and of the visitors who go ized industry in the world." The state- directly to San Francisco and of those ment follows: who go by the northern route, fully an I The Oregon Hopgrowers Association equal number will pass through Ore- is organized upon the theory that a gon. It behooves Portland and every central ooay, controlling i ieai pi other Oregon city to present .their best nt f U the h0?,s ise? in ?regn , 1 . . . . Washington and California, can sell appearance and to give their heartiest 5" ,,",,, Pif. 15 cents welcome to the . visitors, in the hope . a, fh. rnEt nf raisine hods that many may De induced to return 1 varies from 10 to 12 cents a pound, ac to stay. I cording to the yield per acre, this mini mum price would, even in years where A Phlladelnhia. lumr dared Rillv there is a surplus,, secure growers Sunday to stop his vague diatribes a&ainst loss and leave them some corn- about booze, hell and so on and come down to specific instances. - Billy re plied that he "would not endanger the pensation for their work, while in oft recurring years, when the demand ex ceeds the supply, growers- would, as the relation of consumption to produe. work he was doing for God by inject- tion justified, get from 15 cents to per- ing personalities." Is it possible that haps 4 cents a pound. the great preacher mistook his bank " account for God? To some eyes the for the purpose of giving the corpo- two look perplexingly alike. , tano.ooo. hv aniline 30.000 aharea of nar value of $10 each. The Kaiser must feel flattered at expecting that each grower will take the kindly attentions the British have I at least one share for each acre of nlanned for his .htrthdav. A enunle of I hoos. and allowing him to pay for his Zeppelins dropping bombs on his head stack in two equal notes, one due No may be transformed by an active to- "-J' l5a; 191T5; a agination into angels showering bless- each acre, and each acre produces a ings. wimam is 6b today. And Teddy thou8and pounSs of hops, it will take Is of just about the same age if you one-half cent a pound each year to pay care to remember it. the note. It is some years since Boston Tu corporation to oe organizea wni dragged William Lloyd Garrison contract witn growers 10 purc.wse a.. through the streets with a rope round his neck, but it is only a day or two since her thrilling populace wildly applauded the unspeakable Thaw. Puritan taste in hero worship is a lit tle singular, but it seems to be fairly constant. their hops for the period of three years (with the oDtion of four yiars more), at 11 cents a pound for choice, 10 cents for prime, 9 cents for good, and 8 cents for common. The sale is absolute, ana takes- from the grower all control of the hops, save that the corporation agrees to use its best efforts to sell the hops for a greater price than that given, and to "give to the grower all above' the purchase price, less one-half The half cent per A DEMOCRAT FOR A TARIFF BOARD. A Democratic Representative, Mr. Church, of California, has at last taken up the cause of tariff revision through a nonpartisan board. This policy was recommended for years by many associations of business men without regard to party and was final ly adopted by the Republican party but when the Democrats gained pow er, they scornfully rejected it, . de stroyed all that their opponents had done and revised the tariff according to the old, hit-or-miss, log-rolling methods. Now that their tariff has not worked out as expected by them, they are turning to the policy which they rejected. We welcome Mr. Church's bill as an evidence that sound common sense is beginning to supplant partisanship in his party. Mr. Church proposes a Federal Tar iff Commission of thirteen members, one from each Federal Reserve dis trict and one at large, to serve for ten years, though the first members would be appointed for shorter terms in or der that there should always be hold over members. Its duty would be to investigate cost of production,, prices and markets at home and abroad and all facts bearing on import duties. It would also investigate upon com plaint that a legitimate industry is being Injured by too low a tariff rate: or that too high a tariff enables a business to make "unusual profits to the detriment of the users and con sumers"; or that trusts exist in conse quence of too high a tariff. The Com mission would recom.i end to Congress remedies for evils oi this nature dis covered by it. A better plan for geographical dis tribution of tlje members than the Federal Reserve districts could prob ably be found, the establishment of these districts having been tainted with log-rolling for local interests, but the bill will form a good basis for dis cussion if its author can ever get it out of committee. Mr. Church truly says that "the expense of maintaining MR. WILSON NOT BLAMELESS. While frankly condemning the greed for spoils betrayed by Secretary Bryan in his letter to Mr. Vick, Demo cratic newspapers hold Mr. Wilson blameless and describe as a misfor tune to him the necessity of remain ing allied to a man of such debased political ideals as Mr. Bryan. Mr. Wilson is not blameless and is entitled to no sympathy. Every event of the last two years in connection with political appoint ments goes to show that Mr. Bryan's treatment of offices as spoils has Mr. Wilson's express or tacit consent. .The Pindell episode proves that Mr. Wil son approved the Peoria editor's ap pointment. It is incredible that Mr. Wilson did not know of Mr. Bryan's distribution of diplomatic posts among his faithfnl but incompetent political friends. The experienced and compe tent Mr. Herrick could not have been hustled out of the ParisEmbassy to make way for the inexperienced Mr. Sharp unless Mr. Wilson had known and approved. The President surely knew that the mischievous busybody, George Fred Williams, was sent as Minister to Greece. He must have known of the device by which Postmaster-General Burleson evaded the civil service law in order to put Demo crats in fourth-class postoffices. That the President Is in sympathy with the job-brokerage which ha's been carried on In the departments is proved also by his positive acts. He approved the bill which excluded in. come tax appointments from the merit system; also the bill making the same exception as to deputy collectors and deputy marshals; also the bill making commercial attaches political ap pointees. He knew what he was doing in those cases. He must have known what his subordinates were doing, for he has kept a close watch on every move of any consequence in the de partments as well as in Congress. More than any recent President, he is the boss, in little as . well as in big things. In writing to Mr. Vick, as he did, Mr. Bryan put into written words the spirit which moves the entire Administration. It is folly to doubt -he good inten tions of the Rockefellers in endowing cent ner pound. their foundation. But time plays sad I pound on the basis of 70 per cent of the tricks with nhilanthronin dreams. I hons raised in the three states win Kiifonn rannnt ho HoncirioH nn in I create a fund of about $205,000. to be . 1 . . , , ,, fulfill good intentions. The common law made no mistake when it grew hostile to perpetual grants in pios usos. used in paying the expenses of the cor poration, s Table manners of Minister Sullivan were offensive to the elite of Santo Domingo. Tet many a good man has! of the three corporations as Four men. chosen by the association in Oregon, four by the Organization in California, and three by the one in Washington, will form a fourth corpo ration, which shall control the bUHiness unit. This fourth corporation will make no profit and pay no dividends, its pur pose being limited to selling tne con tracted hops of tse three states. . The hops will be sold as a rnit, that if t:ie average price for any grad If the Turks had studied CaDtain Is 20 cents a pound, each grower will Mahan's books even a little they would receive that price, less nut a cent a never have sent a land force against pouna commission. noim..na,n8 ,,, eaten with his knife and made a noise with his soup, and, for actual comfort, all must admit the most satisfying mode of discussing pie if: to split the face with it. NAVAL MILITI A IS SIS.OOO ASSET. Henry Break. Converted. Find W here Orgrnnfxntion Brines In Money. PORTLAND. Jan. 27. (To the Kdl tor. ) Would you believe it, that to abolish the Naval Militia would mean a loss of $12,000 a year to this state? X aidR t until I was shown. The local training ship Boston, re ceives from the Federal Government about $5000 yearly for payrolls; for provisions boimht locally. $1300; coal purchased locally,' $.1000; sundry sup plies, $2300: exeess supplies, $1200. This makes a total of $13,000 for the Boston alone, and in addition to this the Gov ernment also pays for salaries to re cruits, uniforms, rifles, ammunition, etc., another $11,000. The $12,000 appro priated by the state is for maintaining the Naval Militia 'and defraying a pro portion of the maintenance of the Bos ton and the organization when upon the annual cruise. The Government pays" approximately $24,000 and we pay $12,000, the differ ence being $12,000, the greater part of which is spent here. This is not the only merit of the In stitution. Every year a large cruiser. such as the V. JS. S. St. Louis, conies to Portland in connection with the Naval Militia. Now, when one of these larpre vessels comes, it stays for five or six days and the men on board spend their money locally. There are about 600 men in a crew of one of these ships and if each of them spends an average of $1 per diera while here, there you have fjovu more tnat comes Into this state It is principally through the efforts of our local officers that the Govern ment has consented to send the Oregon to Portland this year. . Oregon has the smallest population of any state maintaining a Naval Mi litia, and was next to the last state to organize a Naval Militia. There are only two states out of the 23 that have Naval Militias that send a larger proportion of their men to sea on duty. During the last two years the Militia has increased 50 per cent and the men that we send out have proved to be more efficient than those of other states, and more of them join our Navy. Now, If those people who voted for W. T. Vinton, of Yamhill County, who promised that if he was elected to the State Senate,, that he would put through a bill to abolish the Militia, are in doubt as to the veracity of the fore going, I am sure the local officers would appreciate an opportunity to convert you tne same as tney oiu mq, HISSKl BKESKE. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From Th Or.g.n1n of January ty 11. toleiu Coroner 1. C. Mylund. Hour Pratt and torn. tj. A. Clm-ki died yes terday at galem. They were all well known. A. F. Wheeler. E. S. Miller and II. G. Sibray. of 1'ortland, have been ap pointed, notaries public. Montreal Archbishop Kahi-e has sent a circular to all the pailxh prii-iu .f his archdiocese asking that prayers be added that the Inllucni.i rs be checked. Itcv. lr. J. v. Kumr.l, vice chancellor, announced thai Inriiitnsa, like other plagues, wan a vlxiiatlon from heaven to punish theatergoers. Nels Jonra, Accompanied by Hurry Phillips, left lleppncr for Junction Bar to attend 10 40U0 of IiiH.sht.cp, of which SH.D to 400 are reported deaa. On Saturday. January 25. a ton won born to Mr. and Mrs. Thuniaa Urcnttll. Rev. H. K. Hinc nd Jin. lllne both are quite seriously ill at thrlr homo in Kant Portland. At a meeting of the Oregon Alnlne Club the followluK . officer were elected: George H. .Mni-Klc, prcxldcnl: John Gill. W. (1. Steele an.l W. w. Bretherton, vice-presidents: Urnrin H. Hlmes, secretary, and (7, M. ltilcinnn, treasurer. The three vlo-pi ,.lrli nt named are respectively preNldenti uf the museum, exploration anil canirra departments. A carriage containing Mr. and .Mm. William MUtM-hy, of Kaxl I'ortland, col lided with electric nmtor cur No. 20 Sunday afternoon. Thn cat-rlaMtn waft wrecked and the occupants toayud out. but none wns seriously hurt. The auction sale of seals for the opening of the new MHrquiim 5csterdKV was a. big; aucress. 'I hp ri-(lirns were $4401. Charles W. Knowlo, venial boniface of the SI. Chaibs Hold, bid Up to $(i0 for the firat box and car ried the coupon for It nwal. It. 1. Knapp took box B for $i5: C. . .'.seller took box D fur $50 and v'Jit Mull bidders were L. Tannhauser, V. rraarr. rihernian Hron, Cy Unnxt. II. I. Uiilllx son and Maurlco l.trhmnn, who took away choice seats at $10 to $25. the Suez ports without naval support. As long as the canal is open freely to British vessels it is safe and the Turks cannot even enter Egypt from that direction. individual hops may have gone to fll a 16-cent or 30-cent order. Every detail of this proposed plan has been examined by able men, in eluding bankers and lawyers, who have also had for guidance and suggestion successful Organizations of a kindred kind, like the raisin and citrus grow ers and fruit distributors' unions. . There is a tariff of 16 cents a pound James Rice, of Riddle, loved his dog and facts will show the dog loved him. He left all his property as a trust to care for the animal. The bond be tween a man and his dog is a sacred I on hops, so that hops to come in com tie, and the world is all the better now I petition with our hops must pay the and then to learn that such a thing duty at 16 cents a pound, plus cost ot AVi.a 1 I production, insurance and freight. amounting ttpyiuAiuiaiciy iu uo lciilb . pound. On the other hand, we can lay Russian submarines are reported as 1 any -surplus -we have down in London being active in tne .Baltic, we Knew for J4 cents a poUnd and break even. the Russians had a lot 01 convertea leaving in this country only the nu submarines practically their whole ber of pounds necessarily required In fleet, in fact but the report that the I home consumption. Russian type of submarine is active naturally causes surprise. The value ot the hops grown in the three states is about $8,000,000 annu allv to1.tr.li ohnllt ll Tnll (lllll 1. rai.i! jnow comes a v,nicaso iiiuiut Orea-on. It is the lararest unorean- with the charge that high prices ore ized industry in the world and under the product of a state of mind. Not present conditions Individual and state to mention that they are also the cause competition give speculators the profits. of a state of mind and a very un pleasant state at that. BILL'S IN TROUBLE. By James Barton Adams. VISITORS TO THE EXPOSITIONS. California has already begun receiv ing the crowds of exposition visitors, two trainloads from Montana having arrived at Los Angeles on January 23, and Is now making calculations on the number that will come during the year and on the amount of money they will distribute. More than 100 special- train parties have already been sched uled and the total which will go to Southern California is estimated at double that number of parties. They will go from east, from south and from as far north as Winnipeg. No less than thirty special trains will car ry the Elks in July and twelve will carry members of the American Medi cal Association. The Shriners will take several special trains, going through California on the way to Seattle, and the real estate men will have several. The two Hill steamers will each bring 600 passengers on their first voyage to the Coast, and larger steamers, such as the Kroonland and Finland, will bring 1000 each.- Oregon is particularly interested in the proportion of these exposition tourists who will come to Oregon on their way either to or from California. It is safe to estimate that at least half of the special-train parties will visit the North Pacific States, for they will usually be wealthy enough not to con sider the extra railroad fare and will wish to see the entire Pacific Coast while they are about it. A much larger number of people of moderate means will go direct to San Francisco, The English Secretary for Foreign I An old farmer in an Eastern state had Just his hand, and entering- his pastor's study thus addressed the reverendgentleman: I've got a letter, parson, from my son away out West, An' my ol' heart is heavy as an anvil in my breast To think the boy whose future I had once so proudly planned Should wander from the path o' right an' come to sich an end. 1 told him when he started out toward the cettln' sun Med find the row he had to hoe a mighty rocky one: He'd miss his father's counsel an' his mother s prayers, too. But he said the farm was hateful an' he guessed he'd have to go. Affairs and the German Chancellor are saying unkind - things about each other. We trust that- the exchange will not lead to serious trouble. A local woman who sued for $50,000 for breach of promise was awarded less than 5 per cent of the amount by a jury, which is more balm than most of this class of plaintiffs get. Home's House bill 174 needs to be put to sleep, since it proposes to limit the milkman to six days' work a week. Imagine Mr.' Home holding the baby on the dairyman's day off! The polished beauties of the boule vard ore enough to tempt a man to part with his bank account. We refer. of course, to the auto show exhibits. I know there's big temptations fur a youngster in the West. But I believed our Billy had the cour age to resist, An' when he left I told him of the Two quarts of whisky and fifteen That lie like hidden sarpents in life's quarts of beer to be consumed within thirty days will be a tub to the dry whale to sport in. Governor Withy-combe has pro claimed February 17 as "Child Wel fare" day. Do not spare the rod. Portland will see how civil service works in the eligible list for private secretaries of the Commissioners. Human life is held as dust in Bel gium, says a well-known writer. He doesn't mean gold dust, either. The sun never sets on the British empire, but Teuton and Turk are mak ing -it cloudy. Only the people can spring the effi ciency test on the bosses at the City Hall. Europe is buying up the California bean crop. Dessert for the troops. Of course the sportsmen will take their trimming as true sportsmen. It may develop after all that Pender is a victim of cruel circumstances. Commissioner Dieck Is giving the old men the Osier by easy, stages. The Kaiser was 56 yesterday, almost old- enough to have appendicitis. Plainly the civilian is a base crea ture in European military eyes. Moral: See what you are shooting at before you fire. pathway everywheres, But Bill he promised faithful to be keerful, an' allowed He'd build a reputation that 'd make us mighty proud. But it seems as how my counsel sort faded from his mind An' now the boy's in trouble of the very wuBtest kind. His letters come so seldom that I somehow sort o' knowed That Billy was a-trampin' in a mighty rocky road. But never once imagined he would bow my head in shame An' in the dust 'd waller his ol' daddy's honored name. He writes from Salem, Oregon. The letters mighty short- I just cain't tell his mother, it'll break her poor ol' heart; An so I reckoned, parson, you might break the news to her: Bill's in the Leglslatur', but he doesn't say what fur. PRESIDENT'S POLICY DICKKNDKD. Public's "Coot Indifference to Roose velt ' Outbreak" la Notes. TOPPENISll. Wash., Jan. 24. (To the Editor.) I am a farmer's wife. The Oregonian comes to us every day. We think it the best paper on. the Coast Being a woman, I was not permitted to vote for many years. But I have ulwavs been a Republican, and fee that I shall be one all my life, for I have more than one dear relative who followed the battle-stained cross under Meade at Gettysburg. Hut 1 wanted so much to say that I lovo and praise President Wilson. I know more than one Republican mother who is pleased with his Mexican policy. And ben the reverend gentleman spoke sarcas tically of those "Christian gentlemen at Washington," surely the Goddess ot Liberty openly smiled. What about the rulers of Mexico? Have they not been Christian gentle men, or pretended to be? Yet before the revolt against Diaz 80 per cent of the Mexican people never had a "look In" in choosing their Governors. The boundary line between Mexico and the United States is the dividing line between barbarism and civiliza tion, ignorance and education, super- stitution and light. Why should we make a roar about Americans who have become Mexican citizens? Most peo ple who have been born and reared under the shadow of the Stars and Stripes are so inspired with the Idea ot freedom they are willing to live where they are a little more certain of hav ing it. If they are American crlm Inals, "good riddance of bad rubbish.' Or if they prefer to live in a tax-bur dened, God-forsaken country, rather than in the United Sates, surely no good loyal American blood should be spilled to protect them. How do we know there would not be" if we start something, and If we do not Intend starting anything, why rail at a peace loving President? Dr. Aked eald a few weeks ago he hoped to see the day that rival armies will declare "priests and kings are our hereditary enemies; if we must fight, let us fight them. Ex-President Roosevelt must have gotten the surprise of his life a few weeks ago by- the cool Indifference with which the American press treated one of his most terrible outbreaks. RHODA M. LAMB. Half a Century Ago. Orlu-ln of Quotation. PORTLAND. Jan. 26. (To the Edi tor.j win you please Inform me through the columns of your paper who was the author of "While there is life there is hope?' ROSE DEERY. John Gay (1685-1732) wrote in his fable, "The Sick Man and the Angel": Is there- no hope? the sick man said: The silent uoctor snook his head. While there is life there's hope (he cried) Ihen why such haste so groaned and died. But Cicero also wrote: "As the saying is, while the patient has life there is hope." And Theocritus also said: "There is hope for the living but none for the dead." Off with the overcoat, out with the umbrella. The Dacia is waiting to be pushed out. The Legislature Is now on its way. Card Playing- and Danclnc. ONTARIO, Or., Jan. 28. (To the Edi tor.) I have been informed that the Methodist Episcopal Church Confer ence once upon a time voting upon the matter of whether or no card playing and dancing, one or both, should be condemned, came within one vote of withdrawing the objection. Will you please give' full particulars as to date, etc., when vote was taken, if ever, and majority for or against? E. J. BAILEY". The clause was discussed at the con ference of May, 19J2. Request was made for withdrawal of the clause, but this was not done and the clause re mains. For full particulars regard ing this matter refer to Rev. J. W. McDougall, superintendent of the Port land district of the Methodist Chdrch, 1133' Northwestern Bank building, Portland. Playing; the Joker. PORTLAND. Jan. 27 (To the Edi tor.) In playing the game of five hun dred, my opponent gets the bid in no trumps, and leads the ace of hearts. have a small heart and the joker. MAy I take his heart with the joker, or do 1 nave to piay me sme.ii neanr A SUBSCRIBER Hoyle says: "When there is a trump suit the joker is the best trump; but when there are no trumps, it is a suit by itself but still a trump. The player holding It cannot trump with it as long as he can follow suit; but when he has none of the suit led he can trump with the Joker if he likes." Salary and M Hence. AURORA, Or., Jan. 26. (To the Edi tor.) What officers of the United States receive $5000 a year and 20 cents a mile to and from Washing ton . It. . D. Representatives and Senators are al lowed 20 cents a mile to and from Washington .for each session of Con gress, but the Balary of each Is 7 . 1 0 0 year. The salary of the Speaker Is $12,000 a year. From The Orcrnnlan ef Jamiaiy i:., 1M3. Madame Ve font" Is telling fortunes to many of the well-known folk about town, at her stand mi Klrxt street, be tween Stark und Washington, at i a consultatiou. The Southern people are sick and tired nf the war and Its results, but It is only a sluhhurn pride that hold, them In nntsconlsm to a Government tbry are already powcrlcsa to resixt. Today's dispatches assure ua Dial the rebel Cabinet has. resigned an.l that the principal rebel Gencraln have declined to assume the positions assianM In them, and In '.ronoral the Minora, founded and unfounded, are foreboding, to the Confederacy. A farmer from Marion tells ns thai until the recent cold snap January had been a good month fur plowing. The Academy oT Muxlo at 8nu l-'ran- clsco announced that Hriithnm Youtiir and his wives would be In attendance on a certain evening recently. A lame houan wmm present, and In accordance with the announcement a per.ottator of the Mormon chief, drcsned after the fashion of the saints, tint appear In one of the boxes and bow and acrapo tu the calls of "Hrlghnm." lint the fislU-rv abused him as an Impostor, aa he prob ably was, according to one or the news paper. According to correspondence from Grnnt'a headquarter a European army officer, who has cotno to America to watch our troops In action, 1 very much impressed with the Army of the Potomac when it get in to bailie. Yes. PORTLAND, Jan. 2G. To the Edi tor.) Kindly inform me through your paper if a man born in the United States, his father being an alien, is an American citizen? SUBSCRIBER. Amendment 14 to the Constitution of the United States says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the Jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States." Secretary of Slate Seward' lellrr In Charles Francis Adams, the Union' Minister to England, In which the Union "disallows" England's desire lu eld the rebel prisoner, ha been made iMiblic Seward's reply to Iord Whnrnc.llf fo I polite, but firm, as witness an excerpt from the letter to Adams Instructing him a to negotiation with Lord Wharncliffe: "You will now Inform Lord Wharn cliffe that permission for an auent . . . 'to visit the Insurgent detained in the prisons of the United Slates and distribute 17.000 pound ot British cold is disallowed. "Here It is expected your correspond ence with Lord Wharncliffe will end. "Tllnt correspondence nccexiitrtly will become public and the American people on reading It will he likely to reflect that the sum thita Inxldiuiisly tendered in the name of humanity con stitute no lartre portion of thn profit which Its contributor may be Justly supposed to have derived from tlio in surgents by exchanging with thnm arms and munition of war for the cov eted production of Immoral and en ervating slave labor. ... "J think all our countrymen will rejoice In be ing saved . . . from the grave In sult which IktiI Wharncliffe and bis associate In their -xel for Hin over throw of the United States have pre pared for the victims of this unnatural and unholy rebellion." Captain Hooper, who was injured 4iy a fall from his liorso a few day ago, is recovering. TIIK TIMK AD PL AC'K. When Hex. Oregonus, the grand king, appears. When to all he extends the glad hand. When our ouecn scalier ruses 'mid laughter and cheer, that roach the hearts of the far and the near To the uttermot end of the Und In June time. t nn every year young and Where pleuaiire and reign supreme; Where old people grow rejoice; Where sorrow and worry I only dream which float away quickly at sound of the scream Of the Gladsome i:uo Festival Voice, In i'oritiiiMl. ii. Li;i;or waom;, rUikrcsll t'r. Itoiind-I p of f.nialn?ee. Indianapolis News. Stiillxtlcs show Unit the I'nilaO Stale now lias more (him .''. con factory employe and 1.'j"0.uO railroad employe . World's Crop of Linaeed Oil. Indianapolis News. During 191S the linseed oil crop of the world amounted to 3,250.000 tons. The crop for the present year la estl- rnated at 2.700.000 tons. Homestead Law Requirement. CLARN'O. Or., Jan. 26. (To the Ed itor.) How loner need a British sub ject be in the United ftat'-s before til ing on a homestead. under the new law? G. H. Mc(l EE It. He may flic rfny time rftcr arrival here, but he inuj-t be a citizen before he makes proot When Customers Wear Out Your Door Hinge Do you fiKUre It a expense or profit? Wouldn't you be glad to buy a now hlnire every day? When you put money Into prop erly prepared newspaper advertis ing you are adding to Ihe strain on the door binge. But you are also Inert urinv your business. Your sales totitt amount up. Your net income Incrt-jiM-a le, his the percciiluKc of fixed charge like rent are reduced. Newspaper al el'lixl n b.-ucfila both storekeeper and customer Lo calise it makes for increased l-fll-ciency In distribution.