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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. JANUARY SO. 1913.
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; 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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