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THE HORSING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1915.
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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.