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9 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. JANUARY SO. 1913. PORTLAND, OKIiGOJi. at rortlanrt. Oregon. Poatoffics 6.U0 i.2. .BO 1. 2. 4.60 Entered sc nd-clm?s matter. f'jbscriptiou Kates In-arlably in advance ' (By Mail.) J'aitv, Pindar included, ope year ...... X'aily. Suiriay inrludeo, aix months ..... JJdi'y, hundar fncfUL-:il, tbree nionthl ... sunaav included, one monin, . I-ta'ly. without .Sunday, one year ... T'atlv. without Sunday, six months .. Isi',y, without Sunday, three months 2'ailv. without Sunday, one month Weekly, on year .. Funday, one year Sunday and Weekly one year ....... (Br Carrier.) Xtaily. Sunday included, one year .... .. .$1.29 Xatly. Sunday Included, one month .75 lloi ta Remit Send Postoffice money or- .!er. express order or personal check on your j ai liana, stamps, coin or currency .1. u 'senders risk. Give postoffice address in full. stic'rudinir county and state. Pmun Kates 12 to 18 pares. 1 eent: IS to i2 pases, y cents: 34 to 4S pares, 3 cents CO to 6o oases. 4 cents: 2 to 76 pages. I cents: 78 to tJ pares. 6 cents. Foreign post- are, oo-jcie rates. Kostrrn Hasuiesa Office Verse A Conk' 1m. New York. Brunswick building; Chicago, rtenrer Building. !-a Franrlsr Office R. J. Bidwell Com jaTiy, 74- Market street. fORIXAXD. SATCTRDAT, JAX. S. 1015. ; TIIT. WAYS OF THE SPENDTHRIFT. . After the manner of the spendthrift, ,he Democratic party continues to spend money without regard to the upply of money it has made available. It enacted the income tax to make .good the reduction In customs revenue caused by the Underwood tariff, but the revenue fell short of its estimate, and, with its customary improvidence, it spent more even than it had estl mated. Vhen the war caused an "unexpected shrinkage in customs rev' enue, it made no attempt to curtail expenses, but levied emergency taxes to be collected until the end of 1915 ' Although estimates of customs rev' ei:ue for the coming fiscal year have already proved more than $10,000,000 in excess of the facts, taking the past Heven months as a basis, Congress continues to appropriate not only all the revenue that Secretary McAdoo estimated, but millions more. The 'amount of customs revenue is most uncertain, for it is contingent on the course, duration and possible exten sion of hostilities in Europe. Asia and Africa. Should Italy join in the war, ;its exports would shrink, as Britain's nd France's have already shrunk ' though they control the sea. Should some disaster deprive the allies of naval supremacy, British and French exports would shrink still further. The inevitable result would be shrinkage in our imports from those countries -and consequently in our customs Tevenue. ; Although the best military opinion 3.1 that, the war will continue far into 1916 and 'possibly into 1917, and, al though the war's adverse effects on our revenue will surely continue for several years after its close, provision for emergency taxes has been made only until the end of 1915 and no at tempt has been made to reduce ex penses. In. such a financial situation a prudent man would endeavor to Jeep his expenses well within his most -conservative estimates of Income, but jprudence seems to be an unknown tuality in the Democratic majority of . Congress. Ordinary disbursements of the Gov ernment for the fiscal year 1914, ex clusive of Panama Canal, public debt and postoffice, were $17,483,784 more than in the previous fiscal year, and the total disbursements, including the Items mentioned, were J35.000.000 more. The war began a month after the opening of the present fiscal year, and ordinary foresight wouid have dic tated most rigid economy in order to provide against its consequences, but the departments continued to spend at an accelerated pace. Mr. McAdoo's estimates indicate ordinary disburse ments in the current fiscal year of J710.000.000, or nearly 10,000.000 more than in the preceding year. This amount is only J 18.000.000 less than the estimate of receipts, and that es timate threatens to prove $10,000,000 In excess of the facts. The estimate for the Panama Canal being J2S.000. 000. an actual deficit of $20,000,000 tan he avoided only by issuing bonds for the Canal expenditures. ; For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, Air. McAdoo estimates ordinary income at $735,000,000 and ordinary uisbursements at $713,765,104. Add ing $1S.931,865 for the Panama Canal to the latter total leaves a margin of only $2,303,030. That this narrow margin is likely to prove illusory and to bo -replaced by a deficit is plainly ; intimated by Mr. McAdoo in the fol lowing note which he appends to his ; figures: ; It is not safe to rely too much on these -estimates for il'lrt in view of the uncertainty vccafeionea D tile European war. ; To these ordinary disbursements :nd the Canal estimate must be add led $'J97.3r5.164 for the postoffice and :J 60,7 23.000 for the sinking fund rbringing the total to $1,090,775,134 The postoffice estimate was based on the entirely unwarranted assumption of Postmaster-General Burleson that Congress would adopt his scheme for converting rural routes into star routes under contract. As Congress has re jected that scheme, the postal estimate must be increased to $320,385,000 which is only $S5,000 le.--s than the cs-timatod postal revenue. Thus the Postoffice Department promises barely to pay its way instead of adding more than $23,000,000 to Mr. McAdoo's estl mated surplus. This estimate makes no provision for the sinking fund, which has small prospect of getting any money. But with a deficit starins it in the face, Congress and the departments have added still further to the huge total of expenditures in prospect, for additional estimates of about $25,000,- uo have been made. The-original es timates include items which could well be reduced In times of financial stress. Jt is proposed to spend $57,261,823 on rivers and harbors, including perma nent annual appropriations, as com pared with $29,663,600 in the present fiscal year, and to spend $10,000,000 more on buying ships. The estimates for legislative. Commerce, Labor and Justice Departments all show increases aggregating millions. The necessary auditions to the Army and Navy could be qiade without adding to the total outlay, if Congress would stop the waste on useless Array posts and Navy yards. Congress persists in paying more than half the municipal expenses of Washington, which are estimated at S13.66S.734, an increase of more than $600,000 over the current year, though common Justice dictates that the Government should pay an amount equivalent only to taxes on its prop erty. One bureau after another has exceeded its appropriation and gone to Congress for a deficiency allowance. That body lacks nerve to enforce its own law forbidding deficiencies. There has been endless talk of a Midget system, btit nothing is done, because Congress is jealous of the ex ecutive and each committee of Con gress is unwilling to relax it grip on toe public purse. Every maa who hasi given the subject two minutes' thought knows that in no other way can ex penses be kept within income, but every move in that direction is met with objection that the Constitution, or some law or precedent or some body's prerogative is in the way, and no attempt is made to remove these obstacles. Never until the present ses sion has President Wilson said a word in favor of economy, and that late word was accompanied by a warning not to be too economical, .as though there were any danger of that. One compensation for the imposition of di rect taxes is that it may arouse the people to the point where they will demand economy in tones so loud that even Congress will hear. PAVING FOR "EFTTCIBNCr." The city has a so-called "efficiency system" made up largely of wise saws. trite maxims and finished diagrams. Its purpose is to do by system what safe-and-sane municipalities elsewhere do by common sense. The system is a woful failure, as it promised to be from the beginning. Nobody in the city administration fol lows it. unless he finds it perfectly convenient, and nobody really under stands it. It is, or was, the latest mu nicipal fad, and so Portland had to have it. It was bought from a pomp ous efficiency expert from New York forty years will be in ruins anJ. the two Anglo-Saxon nations may be- able to supplant it so fully as to retain supremacy. Germany succeeded through the skill of her workmen and the energy and enterprise of her business men, but above all through readiness to adapt her products and business meth ods to the wishes of her customers. Only by adopting those methods can the United States and Britain hold permanently that which the war en ables them to gain, for the war will no sooner end than Germany will apply herself with redoubled energy to restoration of her ruined commerce. WTfY OBJECT? The Oregontan is not convinced that John Arthur Pender is innocent of the murder of Mrs. Daisy Wehrmann and her child. But The Oregonlan is con vinced that a reasonable doubt has been raised in the mind of a large Dart of the public as to his guilt. If this doubt can now be effectually elim inated credit will attach to the prose cuting officers for having built a con viction out of scattered and not too substantial straws of evidence and se cured the early incarceration of the guilty person. On the other hand, if it were finally proyed that Pender did not commit the murder the liberation of a man long harassed and burdened who was hired by some enthusiastic UT unjust imprisonment would be mS te" FTtlana ''hat I" thVTlght'of these circumstances This is the way it works: Three " " ' laborers are declared by Commissioner . . . . ..I personal affront at the investigations ample testimony to that effect, but be- n"T under .yr ? 1",!" - j , , t I E. B. Tongue, the prosecuting attor- 11 is iuuiiu i Hal clii unco uatc cai-ci- i , , , , ...v,. t lent markings. The system says they "ey WOUld b m"It am nerfertlv efficient: hut their su- r : periors say they are not. OJOltUl IU eve. j- I . . ..,,,. . morrl uy caucuculc, mu uiftca ttw.y i ,.- j t TVhnt anthorltv of a suoerior over his em- 1 fuunu i ; " ployers and workers, is an absurdity. It is worse. It is a positive hindrance to real efficiency. harm could a triumphant vindication of his opinion do to Mr. Tongue? Yet Mr. Tongue assails Mr. George A. Thacher, to whose disinterested ef forts the nominal reopening of the VETO OF THE IMMIGRATION BILL. (.o.P jg due. with sarcasm and bitter- One fundamental error runs ness. In justice to Mr. Thacher through all of President Wilson's I statement should be made as to what objections to the literacy test for im- The Oregonian knows about his first migrants. He looks at the subject article. This contribution was offered from the standpoint of the immigrants I and was published before the eonfes rather than from the standpoint of Sj0n afterwards repudiated, was ob- the American people. I tained from John G. Sierks. Mr, When this country was thrown open Tongue professes to see in the ar- to immigrants, illiteracy was common, tide a veiled accusation that Mr. the country needed population, and Wehrmann was the author of the the people who came'were of kindred crime. The Oregonian does not dis- stock to the native population. The cover the slightest attempt to impli- country is now so well populated and cate MY. Wehrmann in Mr. Thacher's its development is so far advanced that first article. we can afford to be more particular j Moreover, at the time he submitted whom we admit and to look to quality I it, Mr. Thacher expressed to The Ore- rather than quantity. " Illiteracy is I gonian his belief that the crime had now rare in this country, but is com- been committed by a feeble-minded mon among present-day immigrants. I youth of homicidal tendencies tnen The latter, too, are of stock alien to I confined in the Insane Asylum and and not readily assimilated with our I that arrangements had already been population. I made to question him in the hope of We have a right to act according to obtaining a voluntary confession. In our own views of what is best for our- the article Itself Mr. Thacher ex- selves. We are under no obligation to pressed the conviction that the mur- consider the interests of would-be im- I der was the work of a mentally de- migrants. We do the illiterate no fective person, which Mr. Wehrmann wrong by excluding them, for admls- Hs not. sion to this country is a privilege in his first discussion of the Pender hich we may deny, not a right which case, Mr. Thacher asserted that Pen- aro ' bound to admit. Hence we der had been convicted on inferences may exclude the illiterate as within and suspicions. It is a coincidence, our rights and as agreeing with our I somewhat curious in a way, that the interests, regardless of their feelings I Pender prosecutor is now seeking to and interests. I convict Mr. Thacher of misconduct No doubt in so doing we shall ad- I on the same sort of evidence mit some scoundrels merely because i .. i.. rZZ. H..V T- .w..-k1: Father Brown's fame is not quite so In the aonllcation of a ccneral rule. It brilliant as that of Sherlock Holmes, is impracticable to make exceptions but it shines with a purer luster. The in such cases. Enough for us that in astute hero of Sir A. - Conan Doyle's Its general effect the new rule will incredible tales is addicted to a habit ork out to our advantage by raising lor two which do not exactly edify his the standard of quality among immi- admirers. His predilection for the grants and improving the standard of hypodermic syringe i9 not altogether ians are ever on the watch, alert to detect a plebeian showing his vulgar interest in anything precious and ready to harry hhn out into the street. The Chicago Art Institute shelters all varieties of beauty under the same roof. Music, painting, sculpture, ar chitecture are equally at home there. In New York each branch has its own frigidly exclusive home with a com plete paraphernalia of footmen, but lers and liveries. Chicago hands out art to the people as freely as water. New York offers it in. delicate parti cles, stingily, on silver platters coated with ice. Rural social life is blighted by too much fuss and feathers. Hostesses waste precious energy "putting on style." Neighbors should' meet in each others houses without formality or display. If there is anything to eat, use the every-day dishes. But it is better to have no refreshments. Peo ple should learn to meet and talk with out eating or drinking, discuss their business sensibly and avoid all foolish imitation of city humbug. The Nobel prize money of $40,000 awarded Theodore Roosevelt and given by him to found an Industrial peace fund, may as well be returned as re quested. A fund of that nature would be frittered in salaries and expenses without result. There cannot be in dustrial peace while employer and em ploye disagree. Contention is an es sential of human nature. Aside from that, perhaps the Colonel needs the money. The community sing is as practica ble in rural neighborhoods as in the city and would be even more benefi cial. Nothing is needed but "somebody to go ahead." A woman of sense and energy to lead a phonograph with good popular records and a place to meet these are the prerequisites, and every country neighborhood has them. What school district will report the first community sing? According to German military crit ics the latest North Sea engagement proves that superior guns, coupled with speed, are a big asset in naval warfare. By the same wonderful process of observation and deduction the conclusion might be reached that brains, energy, capital and opportu nity are calculated to contribute i great deal toward success In a business venture. SHOOTINCi BY POLICE PHOTESTBU, Check ok Patrolmen Ftrlnx; ia Pursuit of Duty Is Wasted. PORTLAND. Jan. 29 (To the Ed itor.) Undoubtedly the time is ripe for the citizens of Kortland to voice their sentiment regarding the apparent use less sacrifice of human life by the local police in discharge of their "duty.' Captain Inskeep asserts that if he told & man to stop, he would stop him. All well and good if this command is heard by the one pursued; but, if one will consider for a moment, he will realize how improbable it is that Sergeant Stahl heard the command at all, for, al though bystanders heard the shout of Officer Klingensmith. one driving machine would have difficulty in hear ing a voice from the sidewalk. I have discussed this with several automobile owners, and all uphold me in this con elusion. Granting that this sergeant may have been testing the vigilance of his oifl' cers, is it likely be would extend this test to such a degree as to endanger his own life- when, he has three little daughters depending on him for love and support? Quoting police rules, an 'officer is not justified in firing his gun, unless abso lutely sure the man at whom he shoots is guilty of a felony. This officer thought the driver of this machine was guilty of a felony, but developments' prove he was not absolutely sure. As a citizen of Portland I beg that some stringent rules are made to take effect immediately, whereby the lives of law-abiding citizens may have some protection from the "glancingbullet" of the policeman in discharge of his duty. H. K. Topical Ver ll'Ilb Xt lll.ll ! ii .KH TO 111.11 AIK While President Wilson holds that we are observing strict neutrality in throwing our markets open to the world, the whole world might not ac cept that idea. For while sound in theory it is not quite so sound in ef fect, inasmuch as Germany and Aus tria are shut off from trading with us. It is just such differences in opin ion that make horseracing and war possible. E. H. Flagg, a versatile newspaper man oi, Oregon, cannot be kept away from the business. He is about to give a palladium of liberty to the city of Warrenton, which is where the state ends and the Pacific Ocean begins. Because there is no state money at hand, the husband of a murdered woman guarantees the expense of re turning the criminal from California. His motive, to be sure, is revenge, ,but good citizens will wish him luck. Much of the individual "joy" will depend on the wording of the dry law. whether it means two quarts of whis ky and fifteen quarts of beer or two quarts of the corn juice or fifteen bot tles of the brew of the hop. . The Portlander Came Back. St. Peter in his robes of state cat doz ing at the golden gate, when slap upon the shoulder broke his day dream with a hearty - stroke. Thus spake the bold intruder: "Hey! Wake up, good guardian saint, I pray, and give a wayfarer a hand of welcome to Beulah Land. I came from Port land, Oregon, that never-equaled city on the famed Willamette; there's a stream that surely is an aqueous dream! O'er all the peopled earth below from Hoboken to Jericho there's not a city can compare in beauty picturesquely rare in any point of peerless worth with that .fair gem set in the earth. Get action on your golden key and throw the gate ajar for me. Credentials? Say, you're joking, saint. Why, bless your honored -whiskers, ain't it quite enough for me to say I came from Portland, U. S. A.? Is not that fact sufficient to admit me? Rise and pass me through." "Your're qualified to pass inside, but you would not be satisfied with your surroundings, sir, I fear, like other Portlanders now here. You'd think the place not equal to your City Beautiful and you wouid roam 'round like a captive ape in fruitless efforts to escape and drop back to the city from which you ascended. Now, sir. come, be sensible, hike back below while you have got the chance to go, for once inside the golden door you'd have to stay there evermore and with homesickness wail and weep.l Now please go way and let me sleep." 'Within your realm do rosea grow?" the stranger aKked. Said Peter: ".No. Our realm is paved (and sad his tones) with virgin gold and precious stones; no soil is here to give glad birth to flowers such as those on earth." t 'Then this would not be heaven to me,' the shade replied regretfully, "and I'll go back, and Peter, say, if you should happen down our way, just come to Portland, Oregon, when our Rose Festival is on and ten, to one you'd never fly away and come back here. Goodbye. JAMES BARTON ADAMS. The Combination. They boast, do New York and Chicago, Boston and New Orleans; They rant of their power and prestige and their systems of ways aud means. One is proud of her monstrous high buildings, her bright lights and millionaire crowds; Another is proud of her culture and each act with great dignity shrouds. Another is proud of her commetce, her factories, her railroads and such, While the other boasts all hospitality put on with an artistic touch. Now we grant to each city ber merits and recall many more we've not named; For each one has much more to boast of than what has already been claimed. But if looking for all of these merits, whv turn to each burg for its kind. ! When our own fair city of Portland has all of these virtues com bined? She has buildings as high as la pru dent, for her motto is "Safety first." And she is riddtnr herself of the foun tains where bibulous youths feed their thirst. The brightest of lights are her roses. The whole world Knows or ineir fame. Of millionaires she has a-plenty more than a score can she claim. Then sneaking: of commerce, kind sir, shos railroads ana lactones not & few. And as to her hospitality we leave that. kind stranger, to yru. C. O. BUNNELL. 714 Esther avenue, Vancouver, Wash. our citizenship. ECOXOMIC 1VAR ON GERMANY. There is so much more human in terest in the physical combat that we are apt to lose sight of the fact that the present war is being fought in the economic field also. Although the im mediate occasion of the British declar ation of war on Germany was Bel gium, the cause which has been de vcloping for several decades is com' mereial rivalry. This sentiment has given rise in Germany to frenzied hatred of England, and in England to a stern determination to defeat Ger many, not only by destroying her armies in the battlefield, but by ex tinguishing her commerce and by re ducing her to economic prostration. The first step was the isolation of Germany by cutting her off from cable communication with almost the whole world. This was easy, for Britain con trols nearly every cable station in the world. Germany now communicates with the United States only by wireless to Sayville, L. I., and cannot reach Asia or Africa by cable. Great Britain also set to work to drive German commerce from the ocean and has so far succeeded that 3,000,000 tons of vessels flying the German flag are confined to port or have been sunk. Germany's com merce, except with her immediate neighbors, has been destroyed. The payment of debts due by British to German subjects is also forbidden, while governmental aid has been ex tended to those Britons wihom the war art in sew vork and. Chicago. has prevented from collecting sums Gutzon Borglum, the distinguished due them in the enemy's country. Se- sculptor, has been making some com vere measures have been taken to pre- parisons, more or less odious, between vent use of British capital in financing New York and Chicago as centers of operations which might, even indirect- art. In his opinion New York is far lv, aid Germany. German firms in behind her western rival in this mat- British possessions have been forced ter. The exhibitions at the New York to liquidate, and all British financial Academy, for instance, "cannot be aid has been withdrawn from com-1 compared with those at the Chicago merce controlled by Germans. In I Art Institute." Indeed, Mr. Borglum South America, for example, German 1 thinks there are several cities in the beautiful and there are certain cranks and angularities in his disposition which it is an effort to love. G. K, Chesterton's Father Brown works mir acles quite as wonderful as those of Sherlock Holmes, but he does it with a good deal less pomp and parade of intellectual mystery. The kindly priest unravels the plot of one crime after another with a certain sweetness of disposition which makes him the most agreeable detective in the world. G. K. Chesterton, ' the inventor ot Father Brown, has allowed him to dis port himself in the flowery fields of a new book, published by the John Lane Company. No doubt it will have a host of readers. To many persons the detective story is the most en chanting form of fiction. It fascinates without wearying the mind. It -en thralls the attention without exacting too much of the reason. Moreover, even' detective story has a pleasan ending. The writers in that delectable mode are not hound by any theories to give us an accurate picture of life. They dwell lightly in a world of illu sions where everything comes out hap- pilv at the end. For that reason they are widely loved. Do you i-emembcr "The Fugitive Blacksmith." gentle reader? It was not a detective story exactly, but it was next thing to one and we dare say it gave more innocent pleasure to harassed generation, than any book of scientific homilies or dull essays that was ever published. coffee firms are selling out or reorgan izing in order to escape the British boycott. Not only is German commerce being exterminated by these means, but ef forts are made to paralyze German industry by depriving it of raw mate rials. This is being done by extending the list of contraband to cover every commodity which could possibly be used in war. So wide is the range of such goods that it includes very many articles used in peace, as well as in war. Deprived of materials, markets, ships and banking credit, German manufactures and commerce may be well-nigh extinguished, and the em pire may be brought to terms as much by economic pressure as by armed force. British merchants are already exert ing themselves to occupy the foreign field from which Germany has been driven and thus to compensate the British empire in some measure for its own losses and its own war expendi tures. They will be brought Into keen rivalry with American merchants in this field, but these two nations will have an undoubted advantage at the outset. The splendid commercial structure which Germany built In United States which furnish forth bet ter art shows than the metropolis does. There are 3000 students at the Chi cago Institute studying art, 1500 of them in night classes. The lectures on Franz Hals and Mozart draw as well as the "movies," says Mr. Borglum The reason for this extraordinary state of affairs is not far to seek nor diffi cult to find. In Chicago art is a vital thing intimately associated with the life of the people. The Art Institute is closely linked to common interests. The pictures and statues are placed where the people easily reach them, restrictions are few, busybody guard ians and police are conspicuously absent. Chicago people have been made to feel that the Art Institute with all that goes on there is their own possession. It makes beauty throb with life for them. New York does just the oppo site. The Metropolitan Museum is a society affair, thin, blue, remote. Peo ple who go there feel that they are barely tolerated intruders upon a do main sacred to tile higher circles. The pictures and statues are set afar off on lofty pedestals or behind glittering and frosty paoea of glass. Chill guard- Villa having been driven out of the capital by Carranza will now prepare to move on the capital. Moving on the capital appears to be the popular side of the Mexican revolution industry. Atrocity war experts appear to have blown up. We have reason to believe that the atrocities were largely the ravings of nervous civilian pen sling- ers. Crown Prince Fritz' message to Americans would read better if he had omitted saying Russia and France were doing dirty work for England. William Allen White says he is out of politics, which is '"what's the mat ter with Kansas." As plain Bill White he might be able again to break in. It is fortunate a political agitator didn't succeed in killing the King of Greece. It might have stirred up trouble in peaceful Europe. A Californian who showed a strength of 1500 pounds by butting a testing machine meritoriously broke his neck in the operation. Great Britain is holding Wessels, the Boer insurgent, on a charge of treason; but to be effective she must not hold him too long. While the Central States are in the grasp of real Arctic weather the best we can boast is a sort of sub-tropical Winter. And the man who goes to the auto show is certain to be seized with an overwhelming craving for a 1915 model. The very selfish man always turns a deaf ear to the needy and explains the matter to his own complete satisfaction. The Family Tree. Oh, the family tree is a wonderfuj thing! From the deep rich mould of the past outspring. The mighty roots, and high overhead The many forked branches are widely spread. 1 And its fruit is the kind that all men know Either good or bad. ripening-fast or slow. Bitter and acrid or luscious and sweet, Only for show or pleasant to eat. And it may have been planted by God's own hand In the midst of a fair and fruitful land. Or a wandering bird may have dropt the seed That grew and spread like a noxious weed. , Ciirses and blessings have sought to rest In its shady boughs, in the same warm nest. Sinner and saint have opened their eyes To the wondrous light of the morning skies And the terrible story of Abel and Cain Is whispered in anguish all over again! The gloomy prison, the holy church You may see in the leaves if you will but search. While deeper still in the shade way down Are the hangman's rope and the mar tyr's crown. Happy the man who can point to the tree That rocked his slumbers in Infancy, And say with pride that no niar nor maid Had brought disgrace on its aged head. Harpy the man who lives so well That all who see him and know him can tell That he walks with God, though his family tree Is bare and unfruitful of all sa-e he! MARIE CRAIG LECSALL. Salem, Oregon. When the Itoaea Are In Bloooa. (A Rosarian Invitation.) Would you see a spot of beauty unex celled in all the land. Where the vernal hills majestically A picture of rare loveliness superla tively grand. That delights the soul when mirrored in the eyes The most alluring spot in all the beau iaaiii world-famed West, Where the air la redolent with rare perfume, Ar,A h heart of every tourist throbs with nleasure in its nest? Come to Portland when the roses are in bloom. Would you gaze on masterpieces of rare architectural sKin, ' The embodiments of majesty and grace? In eye-entrancing beauty they are seen on every hill Where the hand of man has smoothed old Nature's face. Homs in which through open windows float the breathings of the sool rt treasure, flllins; every room With a delicate aroma unexcelled from pole to pole; Come to Portland when the roses are in bloom. To this favorel modern Aidenn every gateway stands ajar, , And the light of welcome glows In every eye. Every hand is reached In greeting to the strangers from afar, Aye, from every land beneath the arching sky. Come and breathe the peerless fra .r,nr ever floating In the air, When 'tis laden with the earth's pre mier perfume. And you'll vow no spot upon tne oifl earth s surrace can twii'i'" With our Portland when the roses are in bloom. James Barton Adams. C. Ithorr Vnld (rise aeln of lMnrlns; HIHIo In elloola. PORTLAND. Jan. 29 (To Ilia Edi tor.) 1 challenge Il'V. J. E. Youcl, of the Spokane - Avenue l'rc8hytTlin Church, or any other veprearntntlve clergyman of I'ortlutKl or tho state at large, to a public lcbats on the fol lowing 01'oposltion: "Kcsolved. That Kllilo reading In the public- schools is 1 tin-American. l contrary to the prinriplca of rchcloun liberty, and (3 unsound puhtlo policy." Tills challenge Is directed only to clergymen In good stumltnijr in, the leading denominations. Koltclou mountebanks who are repudiated by most of church members themselves, will be ignored. The debate would be hfld under tha auspices of the Portland Rationalist Society, in Library Hull, where this organization meet reitnlarly Mimlay evenings. Any other hull would do as well. Lincoln Kiali School auditor ium might be procured, as having greater seating capacity. 1 am prepared to defend the fora- golng proposition at any tune, suiting the convenience of the clcrttj man who accepts the challenge. Should tho chal lenge be accepted, tho time, plitrc and further details can be arrntised after wards. II. C. VTIIOKF. 501 Schuyler Street. The Qsrra of Flowers. The whole world knows the Tortland Rose." The symbol of an ancient race Whose gardens bloom luxuriant When Summer winas cares- ure " Their awkward reverence lor riowers la somethinit of a genial grace i7e nature sinilcs in miiiy moons, And Summer rites must nave men place. The whole world knows the Portland Rose. Its famed abundance in our clime Is happy augur of our claims. Tn niuke our festival renowned. The bounty of our smiling plains We symbolize it In a flower. ri-uan the hands of many lands. Th( TrrtlRnd. rose, ine tiuurn flowers. In cottage or In mansion grand. The social famed voluptuous flower. Tpno nt nnr elevated race rnathpi out Its lovennefa u power. Dear fragrant rose Mount Hood's white crown May touch the lofty blue of heayn Rnr in tho lowlands thou ail queen Where heautv breathes our ricnest. dower. E. B. Clarke. We may yet be greeted by the spec tacle of Mother Jones and John D., Jr., in a sob-sister vaudeville sketch. The Legislature is giving us excite ment enough to prevent our following the war as closely as of yore. The moujik is reported to be a great eater, and is well fed. Nicholas knows how to make a fighting man. West's portrait will grace the gal lery of Governors at the Capitol. It will be in good company. F.leetlon Olticer Wants Redress. PORTLAND, Jan. 29. (To the Edi tor.) The votes cast for Sheriff at the last election in precinct 11,1. City or Portland, having been recounted in the court of the Hon. Judge Kavanaugh, of our Circuit Court, and having been found that there were no errors com mitted by the officials of the said pre cinct in the counting thereof, and also that each vote was counted correctly; Now, tncrefore, I desire to state that there should be gome redress against candidates or ex-officials who willfully and erroneously accused election boards of improper conduct in their official duties- when there was no foundation therefor. The good name of men and women Is the immediate jewel of their soul. It ill becomes any defeated candidate or ex-omcial to make accusations against such good men and women without having positive evidence as a basis of said accusations. DAVID GROSS. The Pie I Didn't Get. Once, when I was young and verdant. At a wedding In our town, Pie was passed me at the dinner; Bashfully I turned It down. When too late, I tried to get some. Tried, alas. oh. vain regret: Every piece had then been taken Of ,that pie I didn t gel. Pies I've had that were delicious. Manv Dies I've had, you bet. But the pie that most I've longed for Is that pie I didn't get. Bovs, list to a word of caution. On that path you all must tread. Any chance you see before you Grab it; nail it on the head. As you travel down Life's highway. Leave no room for vain regret. Stub your toe, but come up smiling; Have no Pie you didn't get. Other men have missed their chnnces; Spent their lives in sighing since. Hoping for the pie that's passed them. Pumpkin, apple, squash or mince, Fate, 'tis said, mukes but one offer, Knocks no more when day has set. Take, oh tnke. when sho doth proffer Or 'tis pi you didn't get. Horace William MacNeal. It has been a long while since we've heard anything of Von Kluck, Von Buelow or General Pau. Again the canal parade has been put off by a slide. Maybe we have a canal and maybe we haven't. Just as though a Governor has to plot to control his own patronage. Begins to appear as if we weren't even going to have a silver thaw. The weather man has hard luck ith his snow predictions. The emergency board passed the mergency, Jitneys Should Be Taxed. PORTLAND, Jan. '29. (To the Edi tor.) The jitney buses are said to be making a good deal of money. Why not make them help to pay city ex penses and relieve the over-burdened taxpayer? In other cities this is done. It coats a good deal to run our city government. The man who owns prop erty knows this for on him falls the burden of paying taxes to meet the city's expenses. We make the public service compan ies and other kinds of business pay licenses and that helps some, but there Is no reason why the jitneys should not do their share too. TAXPAYER. Where Were tne Tearsf I was sick and sad and the night was long. But with the dawn came a robin's song; Then, gone was the sorrow, forgotten the pain. And I was a happy child again. I saw the gnarled old apple trees Hovering over the hives of bees. And I, with rdy pall, beside the spring Stood listening to the robin sing. But the robin flew, and with a start I took up my age and my aching heart. But I wonder much where the years were gone That I lost while I heard the robin's song? MAUD SPOFFORD F.CRLEV. Baby's Pall Ont of Bed. Exchange. When a baby .falls out of hed who rtoes the most screaming, the baby or lha mother! Residence of City Employes. PORTLAND. .Tan. 29. (To the Edi tor.) Can an employe of the city of Portland reside in another city and county and still work fur tbe city A KEADI.K. City Attorney T-a Roche has rulert that a city official must be resident of the city. A city employe does not necessarily have to be. Officials sre designated as heads of bureaus and de- Baa Influence of Holiday Pay. PORTLAND. Jan. 2$. (To tit Edi tor.) You suite In an editorial Janu ary 37,' "No able-bodied man should b given food, clothes or lodging unless ho renders an equivalent." I fully indorso that and go you on better that will not ba received so kindly, because It affects ntnro large ly our highly paid public servants or Job-chasers, who do not render an equivalent as things go when they are at work. My point Is that any subterfuge, for a holiday they take advantage of and always demand lull pay. t claim that when they accept pay therefor they put themselves on tho plu.no of Ihnkp paupers whoso chief purpose In Ills ia not to sell their labor, but to live without labor. Such rinployea are helping themselves downward on the road front, tho piano of a sclf-auppurt-Ing. sclf-respe ting rltlren. A. MAUMADUKK. Jltner Competition I nfnlr, PORTLAND, Jan. "!. To the I'.ilt tor.) 1 am financially unlntorcstol I- Jitney service or street railway i-i-h ice. but the competition of the former Is in my estimation deteriorating to the general advantage of the people of Portland. , The Jitney thrives on short hauls only, while the rallwnv gives good service to all alike. The Jitney thus becomes a parasite on f list-cluss rail way service. Tho economical result of nii com petition Is that on nil ruus oilier lliun short, the electric company wouM be forced to dimin-sh the number oi cuts hence crowded cars and long wall ing. Am I riKht? This Is only one ticwpolut of the question, to sjty nothing of the til-enter security afforded a passenger w hllu riding on a streetcar. KDW.'fiD JASI'KII. Saturday. COI5VAM.IS, Or.. .Ian. :.-iTu the Editor.) Will you inform nin pleitse on what diiy February 15. IMt'i. occurred? j partments. Exploits of Elaine in The Sunday Oregonian Sclilom lias a more ' thrilling story been written than this do . tective novel by Arthur B. Reeve, in which ho recounts the adven tures of Craitr Kennedy, whose scientific methods of detecting crime are familiar to American fiction readers. Read tho first installment of this novel tomor row and you will miss none of the succeeding chapters. OTHKIt FKATURL'S OF Till! BIC SUNDAY rAI'LR. Women of Russia. Much has been said and writ--ten coiiccrniiijr the part tho women of F,np;lund, France and Germany are pluyinjr in the) present war. This article tells how their sisters in the hind of the Czar, from royally to peas antry, are livinp; up to the tra ditions of pust centuries. Historic Surrenders. This article deals with famous occasions on which military lead ers have laid down their tswords in tho dying hour of a lost cause. It is illustrated with reproduc tions of famous jmintinps, in cluding the surrender of ihc Austrian General Mack to Na poleon, tho surrender of Trkin to tho allies in 1858, and the sur render of Lcc at Appomattox. Health for the Raby. Pointers on kecpinc the new est peneration in fino fettle. Science of raring: for baby is outlined by official CNpcrLs. Why Men and Corn Grow Tall. An absorbing discussion of the influence of heredity and en vironment on members of tho animal and vegetable kingdoms. F.vils of Child Labor. Kxhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition will present the subject of child labor as never before. How the future of thousunds of little ones is being blighted by untimely toil is viv idly described. In the Carpathian Mountains. How the Slavoc peasants live in ono of the most rugged and picturesque spots on tho globe. Tho story is accompanied by striking illustrations. Oregon in Retrospect. In tomorrow's issue will be published the first of a scries of historic Oregon pictures. This series will include views of peo ple und places in Portland and other parts of Oregon in tho early days. Other Features. There will be scores of other features, including F"H't Old Doc Yak and the other popular comics, a pnge of the latest, war photos. :i fuil pngo color draw ing by Matoniii. Dclly flip r.i the masquei'ini?, world events in pic tures und a full pnge c.f stories for the kiddies. Order Today. j