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PORTLASD. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1915,
A FEW WORDS TO SECRETARY LANE.
If Secretary of the Interior Lane
desires the passage of a workable
waterpower bill, he will find it neces
sary to bring forward a measure very
different from the Ferris bill, for it
has been abundantly proved by the
testimony of practical waterpower men
that that bill is not workable. He pro
fesses to have the assurances of such
men that the bill will attract capital,
but it is strange that no such men so
testified before the Senate com
mittee unless they were Government
employes.
He quotes John D. Ryan, of Mon
tana, and the men who built the
Keokuk .dam, to this effect. Mr.
Ryan's company derives its principal
power from Great Falls and its plants
are on deeded land. A few years ago
Mr. Ryan complained bitterly because
he was refused right of way for his
transmission line across a corner of
Government land unless he brought
his entire plant under Forest Service
regulations. His testimony before the
Senate committee did not show that he
considers the Ferris bill perfect by
any means. The Keokuk dam is not a
case in point, for that plant is built on
deeded land and cannot become sub
ject to the Ferris bill. We venture to
predict that if the Keokuk dam people
attempt to finance a power project on
the Pacific Coast requiring the use of
Government land, under the Ferris
bill, they will soon encounter impassa
ble obstacles.
Mr. Lane attempts to cow the "West
Jnto submission by saying: "No bill
proposing to transfer Government
power Bites to the states can pass Con
gress." The reply is that no bill trans
ferring control of state water to the
Government can come into practical
operation. It is unconstitutional, as
proved by a long line of decisions.
If any capitalists should have the
temerity to furnish money for con
struction of a power plant under such
a bill, which would give a clouded
title, conflict between National and
state authority would soon block ope
rations. Mr. Lahe's statement is
tantamount to a threat to hold up the
West until it surrenders its sovereign
powers" and accepts his guardianship.
He has lived long enough in the West
to know the Western people better
than to suppose they will submit to
domineering methods. While Con
gressmen from the East and South
may have been so imbued with
Pinchotism that they will not now
surrender the principle of Federal
control, they may come to a different
opinion when they find that the con
stitution stands squarely in the way of
the attainment of their desire. Dis
cussion of the subject in Congress has
shown that light is already breaking
In on the minds of some as to the true
nature of the modern Federalists'
designs.
An important point in the Western
case is conceded by Mr. Lane when
he calls the proposed rent of power
sites a tax. As a tax it is unequal,
discriminative and therefore uncon
stitutional. As to the rate of this tax
and the revenue it would yield, he
blows hot and cold. At one time he
holds it up as a tempting bait. To the
East it is a substantial addition to the
Government revenue, to the West an
equally substantial addition to the
reclamation fund. When the West
protests against this burden on its
industries, it is represented as a mere
bagatelle, the payment of which from
the torrent of wealth produced by
water power will not be felt.
In order to calm the well-grounded
fear of Oregon that the revenue de
rived from its water power would be
diverted to irrigation projects in other
states, Mr. Lane says he will make no
objection to a provision that receipts
shall be used in the states where they
are collected. Oregon people recollect
that there was a similar provision as
to public land receipts in the first rec
lamation act, but that it was repealed
by an enactment, which escaped the
eagle eyes of Oregon's ever watchful
Senators. What is to prevent a repe
tition of that experience?
But before there will be any net
revenue to apply to reclamation, the
Administration expenses must be paid.
Ex-Governor Ammons, of Colorado,
probably prophesied truly when he
told the Senate committee that the
entire receipts would be eaten up in
administration and that there would
be no net revenue. The Federal Gov
ernment shows an unbounded capacity
for Increasing expenses in proportion
to Increase in revenue. That capacity
is equaled by its Incapacity to reduce
expenses in proportion to the present
diminished revenue. It no sooner
finds more money coming in than it
seeks a way to spend .that money. The
Ferris bill would no sooner become
law than another big bureau would be
created another wheel added to the
cumbrous governmental machine, of
which the sluggish motive power
comes from Washington. We should
have a swarm of engineers, inspectors,
special agents, special attorneys, who
would Inspect, report and recommend
and then inspect, report and recom
mend again. The entire receipts from
water power would be devoured by the
hungry horde of Federal parasites.
The East in seaTch of added general
revenue and the West in search of
more reclamation money. would find
themselves gazing from opposite direc
tions into an empty bag.
Who with the scintilla of adventure
in his soul is not stirred by the tale
of Stefansson's journey into a newly
discovered region of the Far North?
His exploits are a refreshing relief
from the accounts of battlefield ac
tivities and are destined to draw
some of our more adventurous spirits
in his wake, particularly if he finds
"big game for hunters or a field for
new activity in scientific research. Of
course, should he find gold, people)
-1
enough to fill a state would go
floundering after him to dot the
frozen North with tombstones. But it
is doubtful if he will find gold. Men
of Stefansson's sort do not care
enough for gold to spend much time
looking for it. Life provides deeper
satisfactions for them.
SOUND THINKERS.
The perfect ease with which the
Jackson Club grasped the intricate
details of the Ferris bill is revealed
by the off-hand manner with which
it gave unanimous endorsement to the
measure.
A member who does more rat
smelling than sound thinking asserted
that the waterpower conference was
framed against the bill and the club
therefore knew instantly that it was
"a great constructive measure cal
culated to advance the interests of all
the people."
Purely intuitive knowledge of a
complex measure has its advantages.
Observe them in this case: The opin
ions of the Portland Jackson Club
no doubt have great weight with Con
gress. The Ferris bill, after having
passed the House, r has been so
changed by the Senate committee that
its author could hardly recognize It.
The Jackson Club's resolutions simply
Indorse the "Ferris bill." Congress is
thereby given a wldeness of latitude
that will doubtless greatly please
that august body,-and gains the im
pression that the Jackson Club is
conversant with the issues of the
day. Would that all could so easily
get a reputation.
It is somewhat a matter of pride
that Portland possesses an organiza
tion of Democrats always up and do
ing, but we have often wondered why
the organization called itself the Jack
son Club. Independence was one of
Andrew Jackson's striking character
istics. Subservience to the party whip
is the striking characteristic of the
Jackson Club. Andrew Jackson, In a
message to Congress in "1832, declared
against the policy of holding Govern
ment land as a source of Federal rev
enues. Yet that is what the Ferris
bill proposes to do, and President
Jackson's' namesake, in the form of a
party organization, approves it. The
club ought to change its name to
something appropriate.
TO WALLOW OR BE ROLLED.
Mr. Bryan Is quoted as saying that
"if any of the madmen of Europe
should challenge us., our Nation would
be justified in saying, 'No, we will not
battle with you; we have 100,000,000
of people to guard, we have countless
ideals to preserve, and we will not go
down and wallow in the mud of war
with you. "
But suppose these madmen should
undertake to roll us in "the mild of
war" regardless of our objection to
wallowing with them that is . the
question to consider. Shall we .pro
vide ourselves with a good, stout club
wherewith to fell the madmen and
give them a surfeit , of wallowing or
shall we meekly submit to beine
rolled? If Serbia had refused to wal
low, she would have been rolled; so
would Belgium.
If we have to choose, we would
risk having to wallow and give the
other fellow his full share of the mud
rather than be rolled and get it all
ourselves. But perhaps that is a base,
militarist view to take.
WHEV MAKY MEETS MARY.
Indiana has Just leaped into fresh
prominence by an innovation which
must have proved a delightful diver
gence from the dull Indiana routine
of producing eminent politicians and
writers of best sellers. Mary day has
recently been celebrated; likewise
John day. Therein lies a brand new
field of delight for our gregarious
Americans, for in them the primal im
pulses of tribal life appear to tiave
been preserved through centuries of
civilization with amazing strength.
Smith reunions have become common
place, although-never failing of popu
larity among the several people who
enjoy that euphonious surname. Like
wise family gatherings of the Joneses
and Wilsons and those who draw
smaller space allotments in our city
directories. ' When we run out of
names then we hold reunions by races
and sects, by neighborhoods and by
Vocations.
But what reunion can measure up
to the possibilities presented by the
newly developed field of Christian
names? Surely there is a bond of
sympathy that binds the Johns and
Marys and the Toms, Dicks and
Harrys. The fact that some two thou
sand Johns were on hand for John day
over in Indiana makes certain the
point. Mary day enjoyed a similar
popularity. And we can see them now,
every manner of John and Mary, every
shade and hue, Bhape, condition, tem
perament. Should some genius at organization
enroll them all those in Indiana and
elsewhere the allies would know ex
actly where to apply for that billion
dollar loan if the John and Mary So
ciety collected a dollar in annual dues
from every member.
A MAN'S JOB.
We are frequently reminded that
his is an old man's war so far as
leadership is concerned. Just as the
world had accepted the dictum that
the young man's age was at hand, this
greatest of struggles came to dispute
the conclusion. There is not a suc
cessful commander in any army who
has not lived his three-score years,
while some of the great Generals boast
three-score years and ten. Von Hin
denburg, Von Kluck, Von Buelow, Von
Mackenzen, Joffre all hover about
the seventy mark.
But one fact appears to have es
caped general attention. That is
the conspicuous leadership of one
young man. He is none other than
the German Crown Prince, and he
represents the leadership of youth
in the war. A great army has been
entrusted to his command and a great
mission the taking of Verdun. Sur
rounded by brilliant young staff offi
cers, given the pick of German troops,
backed with every advantage the
Kaiser has to offer, this dashing youth
has been conspicuous chiefly for his
failures. Another General would have
been removed summarily. More than
one Field Marshal has been broken for
lesser failures. But the Crown Prince
Is permitted to follow failure with fail
ure, possibly in the hope that success
may attend his efforts eventually and
make him the idol of Germany, with
Von Hindenburg and the Kaiser.
The suspicion grows that taking
Verdun is a "man's" job. We should
expect to see a Von Mackenzen meet
with better success. But think ofthe
humiliation to the imperial family
should another win where the Crown
Prince lost. The assaults on Verdun
under the Crown Prince's direction
have been In progress more than a
year,
Frontal attacks, bombardments.
great envelopment movements en
gaged in by hundreds of thousands of
men, aerial attacks every one of these
assaults has failed. The greatest and
strongest of French forts, guardian to
the central route into Paris, remains
intact. Its perimeter of thirty miles
has not been reduced. Its great balk
stands as a barrier in the way of Ger
man progress into the heart of France.
It remains the thorn in the side of
German strategy. It will be recalled
that the Germans utilized the Verdun
route in 1870 and the history of
1914-15 would bear a different tale
had the Crown Prince forced Verdun
at the outset and kept his sector in
the great strategy of 1914 abreast
that of Von Buelow and Von Kluck.
Just now the Germans do not appear
to be mainly concerned with the west
ern battle area. They are too busy
crushing the last of the Moujiks in
Russian Poland. But when the hour
arrives for renewing in earnest the
assault on Verdun the Kaiser might
do well to slip one of his grizzled old
leaders over from the East incog, long
enough, at least, to guide the- imma
ture hand of the young Crown Prince
past Verdun that is If it can be done
at this late date.
ASSAILING OCR CN WEDDED TEACHERS.
More or less from time to time has
been said on the gentle topic of mar
ried women in the schools. ' The ver
dict has varied with the viewpoint and
breadth of different school boards, the
married teacher apparently gaining
the wider sympathy and support; but
her latest champion goes to lengths
quite as extreme as those who would
bar her.
Professor Herbert P. Patterson of
Wesleyan has come forward to term
the unmarried woman a biological
failure and to raise the question, "Shall
biological failures be our teachers?"
He answers his own question with an
emphatic exclamation that they shall
not at least that they should not.
By way of supporting his view he re
sorts to figures which reveal that all
women over twenty-five in the coun
try are married, with the exception of
a trifling 13.2 per cent. Of those over
thirty-five only 9.1 have denied them
selves, or have been denied, the min
gled blessings of conjugal life. From
this the professor draws the deduction
that most women are married; that
those not married are biological
failures.
Many will marvel at the professor's
sublime courage, but few will accept
his conclusions. He fails to consider
the facts that many married women
too many are biological failures, and
that their failure bears an element of
wilfulness not pleasant to contemplate.
Nor does the failure of the small per
cent of women to place their lives on
a matrimonial basis indicate that they
lack the maternal instinct- Quite to
the contrary, this instinct may be even
stronger and finer ina woman who
has chosen a career instead of a hus
band. PeThaps this is not the rule;
certainly it is not the exception.
The professor's observations have
but one value and that idea he does
not emphasize. Biological laws should
not be struck in the face by our varie
gated school boards. Motherhood is
not incompatible with teaching as a
profession. The woman who has ful
filled her fundamental obligations to
the human family should not be denied
the satisfactions of a career. Her
splendid willingness to perform dual
service in the world should be ac
cepted gladly and at its true value.
SUPPLYING BELGIUM'S NEEDS.
The greatest business organization
in the world today is the Commission
for Relief in Belgium. It is conducted
without profit and by volunteers for
purely philanthropic purposes, yet it
buys and sells food, charters ships,
transports cargoes and deals in for
eign' exchange on a vast scale and
on business principles. It is provid
ing for about 7,000,000 people in
Belgium and 2,285,000 in Northern
France, who might otherwise have
starved. To the end of June it had
transported 195 cargoes from the
United States, Argentina, India and
Britain, consisting of over 600,000
tons to Belgium and over 40,000 tons
to Northern France. It has expended
$45,500,000 in Belgium and $4,192,000
in Northern France. That is a brief
summary of the work of this wonder
ful organization for the first eight
months.
The wonder consists not merely in
the successful performance of a task
that is staggering in its magnitude,
but "in the surmounting of obstacles
that seemed insuperable. The mutual
distist of exasperated belligerents
had to be overcome, a world-wide
organization perfected in incredibly
short time, a stream of food set 1n
motion from the ends of the earth to
a people on the verge of starvation
and a system of exchange provided,
where credit had been destroyed and
where commercial intercourse between
nations had been stopped. Most deli
cate diplomatic negotiations had to be
conducted without loss of time by an
organization having no official stand
ing. The facts stated as to what the
cpmmission has done, and which are
taken from its first official report.
show that it succeeded in all these
things. It has stepped between the
belligerents as a woman might step
between two duelists and has caused
them to drop their swords while it
rescued the prostrate nation over
which they, fought. Alone of all
flags, the flag of the commission, rep
resenting no nation but only the char
ity of the whole world, secures for
ships immunity from attack at sea.
Its agents go freely through the em
battled lines on their work of mercy.
The commission needs to work with
redoubled, not with slackened energy,
for its task grows in magnitude and
gifts must flow to It in a swelling
stream until the war-stricken country
is able to support itself and to import
its own food and clothing. Although
this year's crops have provided food
for the 1.250.000 people of the agri
cultural class, the surplus will relieve
imports by only 10 per cent, and
Chairman Hoover says in his report:
The growing and gloomy problem Is one
of unemployment, for month by month a
large proportion of the industrial mass of
our 3.500,000 people falls further and fur
ther into -'.tTi-'-n.
The $5,000,000 a month now being
sent to Belgium averages less than 5
cents a day for the unemployed and
destitute. Mr. Hoover says:
It can be said emphatically that no hu
man being can be kept alive, even In Bel
gium, with the most rudimentary food and
clothing at war prices on a Ies outlay by
somebody, somewhere than between two
and three times this amount.
The need in Northern France, too.
Is continuous and urgent. The com
mission estimates that it will amount
to $4,400,000 a month.
The world has given generously, the
Americans, British and other peoples
having contributed nearly $15,000,000
in various forms, but the stricken
Belgians themselves those of them
who still had means have given $16,
222,701 In cash alone. The resources
of the less well-to-do are becoming
depleted, and the demand upon the
world's charity will continue rn nn
expanding scale until Belgium and her
surrering neighbors in France are
again able to sustain themselves.
Viscount Bryce's plea to the United
States to stop the killing of Chris
tians in Armenia will arouse sym-
patny tor those unhappy people and
that is all it will do. His own coun
try is responsible to great extent, for
always it has upheld the Turk when
some nation would chastise him. If
Russia had long ago been allowed to
ciean up Turkey the Christian in
Armenia would have had a better
master, for the Russian, bad as he
is, cannot equal the Turk in de
pravity.
. There is pathos in the picture of
Dr. Hillis throwing himself ifi abject
nummty upon the mercy of his flock
following his deflection into the
realms of speculation. The question
Is, would "conscience have overtaken
him had his speculations been profit
able.' Favored with wealth and
power would Dr. Hillis have turned to
repentance and humility? We shall
attempt no answer. You may provide
your own decision.
Viscount Bn'Ce lirrcs Amot-la tn
stop Turkish slaughter of Armenian
urisuans. oureiy ine viscount must
be Jesting. Such an undertaking
would entail use of an nrm-jr w
haven't any such animal. Besides, we
nave yet adequately to protect our
own citizens in their nwn bime An
their own country, along the Mexican
border.
Lawyers down Texas wav are con
templating with much satisfaction a
contest for an estate worth $12,000,-
000, with several wills in existenoA
and thirty heirs wishing to break
them. Where there's a will, there's
a way, but where there are many.
ine way leaos to the attorney's bank
roll. If John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wishes
to learn how the miners live, it will
not suffice to spend a day among
them as an employer. If he were
to spend only one month among them
as one of them, doing their work and
living their lives, he would learn
their viewpoint and become able to
put himself in their place.
From the fact that Henry Ford is
to discuss submarines with Secretary
Daniels, it may be inferred that, he
has found a better use for that
$10,000,000 he was going to spend in
fighting what he calls militarism, but
what Is really provision to combat
militarism.
Stefansson's discovery of a new
Arctic land will be Teadily credited,
because he has not attempted to ex
ploit himself as an explorer. The
discoveries of a grandstand explorer
are .always looked upon with sus
picion. Victor Murdock says the rest of the
country will vote as New York does
on the Bull Moose issue. And New
York will -do the same as the rest
of the country on that issue. We all
know the answer far in advance.
Yes, Clarice, the Ferris wheel was
erected in what had been Jackson
Park. Your suspicion that the Jack
son Club thought the Ferris bill had
something to do therewith may be jus
tified. We are assured by the police that
ample protection from pickpockets
will be afforded us on Dollar day.
However, that will not prevent our
separation from one oj several simo
leons. Obregon is Wilson's latest choice for
President of Mexico. It must have
been purely by oversight that he over,
looked the watchful qualifications of
the esthetic W. Jennings Bryan.
While they ar bidding for recog
nition by the United States, Mexican
chieftains are very considerate to
Americans, but what will the rejected
do if one should be recognized?
A jitney ride is cheap only if you
reach your"" destination uninjured.
Often a doctor bill must be added to
the nickel fare and collection from
the jitney driver is impossible.
Henry Ford now has a plan for a
new submarine. The trouble 'with
Henry is, one never knows which side
of the preparedness question he is
going to break out on.
The leaders of the Progressive
party have been holding a conference.
At its present rate of shrinkage the
entire party will soon be able to meet
in a fair-sized hall.
Conditions affecting travel of bot
tles at sea are being studied. The
data should be of great value after
January 1 along the Oregon-Washington
coast.
If a man had an idea he would
be founci dead with a woman upon
whom he had no lawful claim, cir
cumspection would be his long suit.
No wonder Germany wants our cot
ton, since its supply of Jute is ex
haustive and silk and velvet are used
for sandbags for the trenches.
A Los Angeles Judge, who has lis
tened to the wall3 in 10,000 divorce
cases, Is ready to quit before he loses
entire faith in humanity.
Montana people this time mourn
the loss of five children, locked in
the house and burned to death, while
the parents were away.
An easy way to get money in
Gotham Is to hold up a bank mes
senger on the street and take away
thousands.
Short skirts and white hose are the
latest fashion note. Stiff necks will
prove the latest epidemic.
From willowy to. billowy Is but a
slight transformation for fashion to
make in woman.
As Letta says to Buck up at Pen
dleton it's pretty near time to start
something.
Woman's dress this season will be
billowy. So will the bills be.
What on earth has become of that
Italian army?
Why not have an inspector of the
popcorner?
European War Primer
By National Geograpklcal Society.
Dorpat is the threshold to Holy Rus
sia in the north. The character of
the town was for "a long time thor
oughly German, but determined efforts
nt russification have worked consider
able change in the ancient city, which
has been renamed Yurier, ana it now
marks the outpost line of Great Russia
toward the Baltic provinces. It is sit
uated on the river Embach, 140 miles
northeast of Riga. Yurief is famed for
its university, which has remained
among the best In the Czar's govern
ment. The setting of the town is most pic
turesque. It stands upon the hilly
banks for its river, which flows from
Lake Woertz-Jaerw to Lake Peipus. a
great inland sea 25 miles to the east of
Yurief. The principal buildings are
grouped around castle and cathedral
hills, though nothing remains of the
buildings which defined the eminence
but the ruins of the old cathedral.
which was burned in 1598. This part
of the town lies south of the river.
Yurief's renowned university was
founded by the headlong warrior, Gus-
tavus Adolphus, in 1633, the year of
his death. Attached to it are an ob
servatory, an anatomical theater, a mu
seum of natural history and one of the
finest botanical gardens in Europe,
whose collection contains more than
12,000 plants. Its- library. 250.000 vol
umes, is housed in a restored part of
the old cathedral. The university re
mained thoroughly German in spirit
and sentiment until the year 1895,
when it was thoroughly russified. A
long list of great German investigators,
who worked and taught at Yurief. as
sures the enduring name of the insti
tution. Yurief, until its nationaliza
tion, was the Intellectual center of tha
Czar's Teutonic subjects.
EARLY SERVICES IV PORTLAND.
Pioneer Reminlsres of Religions Meet
ing: Before Time of Father Flinn.
PORTLAND, Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) Far be It from me to say one
word to detract from the credit due the
late Father John Flinn. Rather let me
add my testimony as to the useful and
self-sacrificing life he led among us,
more particularly In the very early life
of Portland and all Oregon.
My aim now is to correct some mis
statements as to facts. An article in
The Oregonian says that "Father
Flinn" arranged the "first religious
meeting ever held in Portland."
I arrived with my parents in Fort-
land in 1847 and lived within what is
now the City of Portland until late in
the year 1849. During those two years
I attended numerous religious meetings
in Portland, all of which were held be
fore Father Flinn's arrival on this
coast in the year 1850.
In 1818 I heard the late Rev. II. II.
Spaulding, not long after the rescue of
himself and family and the other mis
sionaries of the interior and the sur
vivors of the Whitman massacre, preach
in what was then called Morrison's
store building, standing on the north
west corner of Front and Morrison
streets.
I shall never Sorget that sermon, for
in it Mr. Spaulding told in graphic
words the story of his escape from the
massacre and his subsequent flight
from the pursuit that dogged his steps
day and night for a week.
Again in the Summer of that year
I heard the Rev. John S. Griffin preach.
and after his sermon I heard him tell
how he had Just "been surrounded by
the fierce forest fire then raging on
the Portland mountain and what a
narrow escape he made from cremation
while coming from his home to deliver
that sermon.
But during these two years prior to
the arrival in Oregon of Father Flinn.
I also heard sermons by the Rev. J. O.
Raynor. Rev. Mr. Damon, Rev. William
Roberts. There was also Rev. John D.
Boone, of Salem. He had just arrived
from San Francisco on a sailing vessel.
I do not remember his sermon, but do
remember he wore a red flannel shirt.
I also recall that in the Summer of
1849 Rev. J. L. Parrish and two other
Methodist ministers came down from
Salem on horseback to what was later
called East Portland, where we then
lived on the Stephens rlace. left their
norses In our pasture, ferried over to
Portland and held a religious meeting
reaching over Sunday.
I heard none of the preaching, as I.
with a number of other boys, includ
ing John A , Cullen. now the Rev. John
W. Cullen. a-Methodist minister, put
in the whole of that blessed Sunday
forenoon trying to select a horee from
those in the pasture that could out
run Mr. Parrish's young chesnut. We
tried a dozen, but found no winner
the preacher's horse was always to the
front.
I would also mention that durinar the
Spring and Summer of 1849 there was
regular Methodist minister who
preached at stated times. I believe every
two weetcs. lucre was also a Sunday
scnooi in connection with his meetings.
He seemed to be the leader. 1 was an
inconspicioue member of the class.
This preacher was the Rev. J. S.
Smith. He was very tall and very
"cross-eyed," didn't stick to his job long
enougn to class with Lee. Roberts and
Pearson, but he did feather out into
one of Oregon's ablest lawyers and ren-
resented the state in Congress later on.
1 rememDer that at one of his services,
held in a private house, while we were
all knelt for prayer, Mr. Smith had just
opened up when the clock Just over his
neaa started in to toll tha noon hni.T-
It was very loud of voice and very
slow and deliberate of delivery.
wen, wnen it had snoken a dozen
times, it hesitated and then said thir
teen, Hesitated a little lonsrer. unH lr
just kept right on until it must have
struck forty then ran down and
stopped, but Mr. Smith, who had been
saving himself, finished strong.
in connection with this sn-raii
"first religious meeting" that Mr. Flinn
is said to have organized, it is stated
that he "attemoted to swim tha
on horseback" about where the Mor
rison bridge now stands.
let it be remembered that t y.t
time and for five years previous there
was a good ferrv at Stark stri
four blocks down the river.
Let it be further remembered that
this ferry always was, and always had
been, free to all preachers. One will
wonder why he should have preferred
a. wet swim to a dry passage. I do not
believe Father Flinn ever told that
atory. ED C. Rhss.
Verae Probably Eraeraon'.
PORTLAND. Sent. 21 (Tr, ,
Itor.) Will you kindly complete, and
place a verse that goes something like
iuia
He Is to be sa fe.
When for the truth he oucht to die
LOR A C. LITTLE.
Probably what you are seeking is
from Emerson's "Sacrifice":
Though love repine and reason chafe.
There came a voice without reply:
Tls man's perdition to be safe.
When for the truth he ought to die.
Rebuke by a Flichter.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
mistake to fltrht?" said the kltidlv
stranger. "Yea." replied one of the two
small boys. "That's what I've been
tellin' this feller for a long time, but
he won't be satisfied till I prove it to
him."
Truth About Klxhing Trip.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
'I sat and fished for four hours and
never got a bite." "Why mention It?"
That s the way it goes. If you tell the
simple truth about a fishing trip, no
body wants to hear you talk.
MARKET IS AID TO DEVELOPMENT
It la Inducing- Farmers to Go on Land,
Say a Producer.
HILLSBORO, Or., Sept. 20. (To the
Editor.) I see the Retail Grocers As
sociation is openly fighting the public
market. I respect them for making an
open fight rather than a secret one, as
some of the professed friends of the
market are doing, but let me tell the
grocers and also the business men of
Portland the truth once, and see how
it sounds.
I lived in Portland, near the "U" car
barn. We men or Bmall means traded
with our local grocer because it was
handy. We bought in small quantities
and, as we were personally acquainted
with the grocer, he would wait until
payday for his money. If I were in
Portland now. a mechanic of the build
ing trade, payday would never come.
If I got credit, the grocer would get
no pay; if he refused credit he would
get no trade; and as he Is no capital
ist, but only gets wages by handling
goods, at the best, he must lose his
Job when we lose ours.
Grocers have always told me that
they made no profit handling fruit and
vegetables because of the perishable
nature of such goods, but they handle
them merely to accommodate their
customers, thus holding their trade. I
do not believe it is to the interests of
you grocers to fisrht the miblie mar
ket. Someone, I fear, has been making
a "monkey" of you. Those of you
who adopted the slogan or carried "the
banner stating "Trade Is Good"
haven't any gray matter to spare, any
way. Now the Japanese do not benefit by
the market as much as we do. When
an effort was made to organize those
who sold on the public market for
the purpose of protecting themselves
against you grocers. Front Street &
Co., the Japanese- would not co-operate,
as they said that they did not
care much for our public market as the
white patrons favored the white sell
ers and that Front street was their
main dependence. They said they sold
ten times as much to Front street as
they did on the market; and these are
the goods and men you grocers ar
trying to protect. But I don't care
personally for that, as they have as
good a right to profit by their labor
as anyone.
Now for the business man. You went
out into the country and bought up
land; high, low, flat or hilly. Farm
land, timber land, logged-off land, and
sold it to us suckers at three times its
value, telling us that we could make
a living on It. For miles south and
also north of me the land was platted
and sold. I have been here five years
and not one of the original buyers of
these surrounding tracts (except my
self) Is now living 'on his acreage. I
was ready to desert my place when the
public market threw Its bow of hone
across my cloudy pathway. You agents
ana owners of land may waste a flood
of ink and hot air enough to dry it
trying to get Immigrants to buy your
holdings: but the stunted, wormy
trees, windowleas shacks and acres of
grassy wacds will offset all your work.
But a well-tilled garden and a pros
perous family will bring a demand for
land that will need no boosting.
For instance: Within sight of my
home a farmer from Nebraska and his
two sons are .building a new house on
a piece of deserted acreage which they
bought lately, and the sole or deciding
reason for their buying lay in the Jiope
of the Portland public market. Kill
the market and you kill their hopes
and in its stead another house will he
deserted and the warm seats in the
1'laza will probably have three more
occupants. T. H. BHOWX.
WHAT DOES IT COST TO LIVE I
Young Man Abont to Marry la Worried
PrtPTT Vn L7 . 1 . ywr, j. t . ....
tnr I Vrtt, V. -. . . .. . . r .. . . . ...
- " " a. Dv 1 1. oi UIS'
cussion" column on the editorial page.
Here is a good subject:
1 am a young man who has some
thoughts about getting married. Had
. v wii 1 im l , i-uuiu Keep a
wife and myself for about $123 per
monm ana live rainy well, in adding
UP the tieures the exnense Innli liu
this:
Per mo.
Apartment rent sir. n
Food u5D
,as ana wood 400
Klectrictly
Water ?!oo
Laundry (wife do som u.uo
Newspapers and magazines .1.00
Lodjco dues . 1.15
Insurance Uif?) lo!oo
Doctor, dentist and medicine 4.00
t'iothes (wife l'.T.O
Clothe (self! lo!f0
Miscellaneous 2o!u0
Total 173.65
I have an income of $175 per month.
The living expenses seem to be about
equal to the income. I expect to live
economically but fairly well, but did
not expect to have the living so ex
pensive. Other must get along very
well for less. How do they manage?
If any young married couples care
to give their cost of living experience
it might prove interestlnar to others as
well as myself. A. SINGLEMAN.
The "CroMaed Check."
PORTLAND, Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly explain the
meaning and object of a "crossed
check," and whether same is recognized
by Portland banks? A. G. MILLS.
A "crossed check" Is an English in
stitution. When the drawer makes out
the check he draws diagonally across
It two parallel lines and sometimes
writes in the word " bank" or
" Sc. Company," leaving the space
preceding the words to be filled in by
the one to whom it Is made out. The
"crossed check" is not payable in cash
over the counter in a bank on which
it is drawn. It was originated to insure
the right person getting the money or
credit. The sum is deposited to his
credit, but the cash is not paid over
the counter at the bank to which it is
presented. It is a safeguard. One with
a "crossed check" might cash it out
side the specific bank and get money
for it, but the man who cashed it would
have to pass it through the bank stip
ulated on the check, accepting deposit
credit and not cash. In turn, of course,
he could draw out the money on his
own check. The custom is still in use
in England, where the banks are not
held responsible for identification, but
is not employed in Canadian banking
nor recognized in American banks. In
fact, few American bankers are ac
quainted with the system.
Sensible Ennnles.
PORTLAND. Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) I would humbly ask: Why not
help the today baby? Would the eugenic
baby thrive in starvation and dirt? Its
first 20 years of environment means
everything to It. I have heard it said
that tramping came in after the Civil
War and that conditions favored less
capable children born of the genera
tions that followed. General Gorgas
now states that the people need better
wages, better food and better housing.
It is boldly said gather in the tramps
and unemployed in soldier camps, Mrs.
Rorer in her cooking lessons roasted
society folk, ignorance and incompe
tence as the causes of rheumatism,
cancers and otlier diseases. It would
seem that the medical fraternity are
changing, turning upside down. One
health lecturer declared "colds filthy
not from the outside, but the inside.
Newspapers and motion pictures are the
educational powers in our midst and
H. G. Wells is one of the most advanced
writers. His "Social Forces in England
and America" should make us consider
what is our civilization. A writer calls
profit tha devil. M. A. 3.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of September 22. 1890.
Carson City Charles Clark Steven
son, Governor of Nevada, died yester
day morning of typhoid fever.
Washington Senator Dolph has
Ingalls to make a Judicial circuit of
Washington, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gon. Senator Dolph proposes the cir
cuit shall include Washington, Cali
fornia and Oregon.
Baker City Mayor McCord has rec
ommended the removal of William
Harper as chief of police.
J. P. Wager has severed his connec
tion with the Pendleton East Orego
nian. He was editor-in-chief.
Cordray's Home Dramatic Company
leaves the city today for a week to
make room for Professor Gentry's dogi
and pony show. '.
J. Miller, who lives near St. Johns,
with Mrs. Miller started for the fair
at Salem last week. Shortly after he
reached Salem he found his pockets,
had been picked of $105. ('
Among the singers and comedians
who will appear In W. T. Carleton's
comic opera "Nanon." at the Marquam '
Grand tonight are: J. K. Murray. Miss
Clara Wisdom, Jeannie Wisdom. C. A.,'
BIgelow, Harriet Avery, Harold Blake
and Mr. Carleton. ;
London The first issue of Michael'
Davitt's weekly. "The Labor World."
has met with an astonishing sale.
The Knights of Pythias have about
decided to builr a fine temple In Port
land. The investment will represent ;
about $150,000.
The Oregonian this morninar nub
lishes a section devoted to Washington
ana uregon manufacturing industries.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oresonlan of September 22. IStlJ.
TheT telegraph line was not In work-
inc order vpRtprdav huni., xr a
without our usual news dispatches 1
tnis morning.
The season for snipe and mushrooms
has fully arrived and the admirers of
those epicurean dishes are actively en
gaged in prosecuting searches for such ;
"game." I?ob-ta.il shooting jackets I
with big lapels, and patent boots with i
large glazed loggings, spotted dogs, j
shotguns and baskets are In demand, i
Mushroom catsup isn't bad, and snipa
are excellent food.
Marshal Hoyt postponed the sale of
delinquent lands yesterday. until
Monday next, partly with the hope of
hearirg from Salem in relation to tho
pending cases before the Supremo
Court.
A young girl who has been employed
at the Fashion saloon in this city, last
evening wished to leave the place
when her trunk was held. Marshal
Hoyt helped her to the rightful pos
session of her property.
The Fall races over the Walla Walla
courso will conclude with a great
sweepstake race, on October 2S. free
for all horses In Oregon. Washington
and Idaho with one exception catch
weights.
The commandant at Fort Vancouver'
Is expecting a Government steamer at
that place within a few days. She will
probably leave San Francisco tomorrow
' bringing troops and stores for a cam
paign this Winter against the hostile
tribes east of the mountains.
The late rains throughout the Valley
are said to have damaged unthreshed
grain to quite an extent. In the upper
counties the crops were generally
pretty well secured before the rain be
gan, but in the lower counties, the har
vest being somewhat later, some farms
have suffered quite a loss.
The Jacksonville Sentinel says: The
sooner slavery Is abolished by the Con
stitution of the United States, the
sooner peace and order will be restored
throughout the Southern States. Gov
ernor GIbbs will call an extra session
of the Oregon Legislative Assembly for
the purpose of ratifying the amend
ment to the constitution as soon as a
vote of Oregon will make it a law of
the land.
LIKELY XOT PASSEXUEK IMliKONS
Writer Brllevrx Itlrda Reported In
Washington Are Band-Tailed Type.
TILLAMOOK, Or.. Sept. 20. (To the,
Editor.) I note that some person ir
Vancouver, In a letter to The Orego
nian, takes exception to Mr. Hornaday'.n
statement that the passenger pigeon Is
extinct, and claims to know where they
may be found In Washington. Is it
not quite possible that your correspond
ent mistakes the band-tailed pigeon
(columba fasciata) for the passenger
pigeon?
The band-tailed pigeon is found from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and
with the exception of the mourning
dove, a smaller species, is the only rep
resentative of this order of birds that
Is found In the Northwest.
Here on the coast (Tillamook County)
the band-tailed pigeons are common.
They feed mostly on berries, such as
the salmonberry. elderberry, bearberry,
etc. In the Willamette Valley they are
less common, and in places are rare.
In that locality they frequent oak
groves to a large extent. The range of
the passenger pigeon was eastern North
America, north to Hudsons Bay.
The most distinguishing feature of
the band-tailed pigeon Is its tail, which
is square, whereas that of the passen
ger pigeon is longer and pointed.
There are some 300 known species of
wild pigeons and doves, of which about
100 inhabit the New World. Of these
about a dozen species are found in
North America, principally from tho
gulf states southward, the three named
being the only ones found In our north
ern central states. ALEX WALKER.
Dividing Estate by Agreement,
SIFTON, Wash., Sept. 20. (To tho
Editor.) My father died In Oregon
leaving no will. He left a widow my
stepmother and two, children by his
first wife. There is no real estate, but
a bank balance and some personal prop
erty. If parties can make an agree
able settlement among themselves, is it
necessary to take it to court? What
share are the children allowed? How
shall we go about it for a quick set
tlement? One child is a minor.
AN INTERESTED READER.
There are a nuTnber of possible con
tingencies that make administration of
an estate advisable.
"700 Orders Behind'
"I am 700 orders beh.nd because
of newspaper advertising.
"I have : ever tried to reach cus
tomers by other mediums."
Thus writes an automobile manu
facturer in the presumably dull Au
gust of 1915.
He has found more business than
he can take care of In these dis
turbed times.
There are others like him and
their names will be found among
the newspaper advertisers.
Business comes to those who go
after it.