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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX.. PORTLAND. DECEMBER" 21, 1913. 12 "THE CHRIST OF CHRISTMAS 99 Sermon Preached From the Pulpit of White Temple by Rev. W. B. Hinson. BT REV. W. B. HIXSOX. GREAT is the mystery of godliness God manifest in the flesh. 1 Timothy iii:l. Great is the mystery of anything! Take the world of Nature in which we live, as an example. Is there anything more common than a sea shell? But is there aught more mysterious? S what s, lovely r.he!l. 2-mall. and pura as pearl. LyhiC clo to my foot: Krail. but a work divine. MbU so fairi.y veil, With de'.nato spir &D(1 nilori. HiiT exquisitely minute, A miracle of desiRn. " And one of our singers, in "The Chambered Nautilus," draws a moral from the shell that touches God. the soul, and the eternities, as he says: Build theo raore stalely mansions. O my soul. . As the swift seasons ro.l: Ijeave thy low vaulted past, lettins; each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. Till tbou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's on resting sea. Or is there anything- more common than a flower? Yet when Jesus walked Palestine and had the weight of the world's salvation upon him, he found time to stop in his journeying and pick up the fair little lily, and say to men who were to be commissioned to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, "Halt long enough to consider the lilies how they grow." For well he knew that if they considered the marvelous shaping and coloring and , fragrance of the lily they would soon have God suggested to their souls. The long centuries passed away, and one day an English poet pulled a plant out of the crevice of a wall, and look ing at It with his clear gaze, ex claimed: v Flower in the crannied wall. I pluck you oat of the crannies: Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower: but if I could understand ' What yon are, root and ail, and all In all, 1 should know what God and man la. Jesus Christ was once talking with a ruler of the Jews about the supreme things of the souL And as he talked, the night wind went moaning and sighing around the city buildings: and the great teacher paused in his lesson, and with finger uplifted and listening ear. he gently said: "Nicodemus. hear the wind." And he taught how the mystery of the wind was illustrative of the mysterious movements of the Holy Ghost. Heard is the sound, but mortal minds Are Impotent to tell. The mystery of the rushing wind Alternate fall and swell. What knowcFt thou of the sights It has seen As the world it goes rushing around. Where it Is goinx or where It has been Only thoc nearest the sound. Jesus loved to contemplate the seeds, and he talked one day about a field where a man was scattering seed, and he said: "I saw some seeds on the hard path where they had no chance for life, and some I saw on the rocks where the fowls of the air would speedily pick them up: and some I noticed on the shallow soil where they would quickly sprout and as quickly die; and some fell among the brambles to be speedily choked by -the weeds: and some were rightly adjusted in the good soil, and they produced the har vest." And then another day he took a mustard seed, and holding it on the palm of his hand, said: "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, small when sown, but so wonder- ful is its growth that - upon the branches of the mustard tree birds of the air rest and sing." And so myster ious is the seed that If you put a thousand different seeds together, the one sure method of separating them is to plant them. For God makes no mis take, and the pansy seed will produce the pansy, and the poppy seed will pro duce the poppy. So that we see how the great mystery of Nature is such that if only we opened our eyes and unstopped our ears we should be lifted up from Nature to Nature's God. Great la Mystery. Great is ' the mystery of anything! Take human nature! Men are thinking all the world over today about the birth of a child. A child! One little year ago it was not; but now it will live when the stars grow old, and the sun grows cold, and the leaves of the judgment book unfold; and it will sur vive mountains, and seas, and constel lations, and Time itself. It is no -wonder that at the birth of his child. Ten nyson solemnly chanted: Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep. Where all that was to be, in all that was Whirled for a million aeons through the vat Waste dawn of multitudinous eddying lisht! Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep. The mystery of human nature! The mystery of an appearing life; of an other creative act of God. For not in utter nakedness; nor in complete for getfulnes; but trailing clouds of glory do we come, from God who is our home. And as Wordsworth said, "Heaven lies about us in our infancy." And that mystery attends us even as we move along the pilgrimage of life. Ana es cape from it we may not. we cannot. Strange the world about me lies Never yet- familiar grown: Still disturbs me with surprise. Haunts me like a face half known. Oar Exit From the World. And then the mystery of our exit from the world! Who has sounded that? "To be or not to be, that Is the question. Whether It is nobler in the mind to suffer the Bllngs and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to - take arms against a sea of troubles, and by op posing end them. To die, to sleep, no more: and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand nat ural shocks that flesh Is heir to; 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, perchance to dream! Ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal "coil, must give us pause." O the mystery of human nature! The roysteriousness of the great fact that I can say to memory concerning aught I place in its keep ing, "Do you hold that ready for my use." 'And the long years go by till I say, "Memory, produce for my use that fact I gave you a scpre of years ago." And memory obeys. And then the fac ulty of judgment immediately gives balance and adjustment to that fact, and imagination moves In to give color and emotional life. Ver ily, the mystery that every one of t - r v cv.f; X ' ;: ' Rev. W. B. Rlnsosu i e us is carrying about with him is such that were it only rightly considered, it would be sufficient to lead us to God. This wonderful mortal we call man, who can sweep the sky and re duce Its shining orbs to a science; who can dig In the earth and lay bare the secrets of the primal world; who can look up into the face of the omnipotent God until a system of theology is formed and classified: and who in Imagination can walk the golden streets, and who can picture hell and hear the awful moan of those for whom no sun will evermore rise; O the -massive and mysterious heights of this hu man nature; how they suggest relation ship to the Eternal God. Great is the mystery of anything! Of the divine nature! The uncaused cause of everything! For every effect moves backward to its cause forever, until you touch God, but God is not an ef fect; He is the causeless cause of all that is. What a mystery! The un created creator of everything! For if we go back far enough, we can fix a date for the appearance of anything and for the appearance of every one until we touch God, and then we say: The throne eternal ages stood Ere seas or stars were made; Thou art the ever-living God Were all the nations dead. The everlasting One! We can imag ine when Portland was not; and when Oregon was not; and when America was not: and when the world was not: and when the stars were not; and when an gels were not; but God is the ever-living One. We can bound the greatness of the things we see; and we can define the limits of every kind of strength we know: and we can compute the square miles of the mighty sea; and we can tell how far away is the orb of day; and we can weigh the moon; and we can tell when the disappearing comet will reappear, when the millenniums have passed away; and we can imagine the wreck of the universe. But up above and beyond all human computa tion stands God the Eternal. The mystery of the Divine nature. God! God! God! Like flames in skies That soar and rise. And lose themselves in these Years on years And naught appears Save God to be. Manifestation of Divinity. Great is the mystery of anything even the manifestation of the divine nature. God at sundry times, and in diverse manner, spake in old time to the world; and for the men of the long ago. as for us, there was a strange significance in the murmuring of the wind In the pine tops at the twilight hour; and for these men long centu ries dead, as for us, there was solemn significance in the rhythmic beat of the advancing waves of the tide; and men looked at the migrating bird tnousanas of years ago, and wondered if when the soul migrated there awaited it a home in some distant clime; and men read the heavens and hoped there was a place for them beyond the starry sky; and so they slowly discovered the great facts of the - eternal power and god head of the One who made this uni verse. But their hearts ached, and were empty, for the manifestation was insufficient And God manifested him self through great and good man in the olden time as he does still. And Abraham moved across the desert places with a calm dignity that made men think of God; and Moses appeared as the man of massive silent strength, and as men studied Moses they mar velled as to what Jehovah must be like, whose creatures arid subject Moses was; and David sang sweet strains of melody that refreshed the hearts of men until they thought of the angelic choirs; and John the Baptist stormed and thun dered, until men shudderingly asked what would the great judgment be like. But still the revelation was insuffi cient And though ten thousand altars reeked with blood; and the death cries of a million victims of sacrifice went out on the air; yet was the manifesta tion insufficient. But then there came a night; an ever memorable night, when the Mother of Sorrows in her hour of anguish sought the stable; a night when the ancient heaven could no longer contain its holy ecstasy of joy, but over the far battlements of the golden city the sweetest music went rippling like murmuring waves of lis, until the shepherds listening, forgot their flocks as they heard the angels singing. "Peace on earth, and good will to men." And the mystery of the In carnation, and the great manifestation of the mystery became a glad fact And so divinely instructed men sought the God who had coj-ie down within the poor confines of human flesh. And in the little town of Bethlehem, where the sweet-breathed oxen were resting, was found the woman whose eyes were wells of adoring- worship; Joseph, the silent man of justice and rectitude: and the Holy Child peacefully breathing in His quiet sleep within the poor boards of a manger. And that was the revela tion: the manifestation of the Divine mystery. For when they tell you He was born as others are born, they lie. or. else the Book lies; for the Book says, "This holy thing that shall be born of thee, was begotten of the Holy Ghost." O He breaks the history of the race in twain: for he alone of all since Adam was born of but one human parent; and whoso denies the incarna tion is a perjurer to the revelation that God has given in the Scripture, be he cowled priest or be he scientist: cull he himself infidel, or call he himself Christian. . ' But what is it, this wondrous'reveln tion? Why, it is the divine come down into the human. That is the mystery, and that is the manifestation of the mystery. And when that child grows up, he shall pick tho flowers and hurry home with them and give them to Mary his mother, and receive for them her loving kiss; and yet he shall say one day: "Wist ye not that I. must be about my Father's business?" And that man shall lie all worn out and soundly sleeping on the tossing deck of a storm-driven boat en Galilee's Lake; but when they arouse him, he shall stand -up and say: "Be quiet. O wind"; and "Lie down. O turbulent wave." He shall stand in Bethany by the little cave in the rock, and he shall weep ' human tears and sigh and sob: and then he shall say "Lazarus come forth," . and the dead shall live. It is tho union of the divine and the human. That is the solution of the age-long mystery. And so he shall become flesh, bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh; and he .shall walk the earth, and be hungry, and thirsty, and weary, and misrepresented, and slandered, and struck, and thorn-crowned, and nailed to wood; and he shall hang up there against the horizon like some awful blurr on God's blue; and he shall say "I thirst": but then he shall say "It is finished," and move grandly and god like into his eternal triumph, having consummated the union of the divine with the human. O this is the grand glad meaning of Christmas; that God in Christ has come down to men pro claiming that all reasons for despair are removed, and all approaches of good will have been opened by the nall-pierced hand, and henceforth there is peace on earth and good will to men. FIGHT ON IMPURE TEXTILE FABRICS URGED IN PLACE OF TARIFF STUDY Mrs. Sarah A. Evans Discusses Doings of Women's Clnb3, Calls Attention to Issue of Year Book and Approach ing Time for Payment of Federation Dues. BT SARAH A. EVANS. President Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs. WOMEN would be a little more than human and a little less than divine if they could solve the problems of the new tariff regula tions or the old ones, for that mat ter. They are as complllcated as sin gle tax and as intricate as the cur rency bill. They are so local in thi'r significance that to one section of t e country they bring joy, to another sor row, and not even the wisest lawmaker knows, though they all pretend to. just what the effetts will be upon the eco nomic conditions of the country. But one thing is certain, and that Is the effect upon the Individual family will be too insignificant to be worth the serious study of a busy woman. This is a question she can safely leave to the lawmakers in high places at least for a while, for big business will as sume the responsibility, whether she wills it or not. and she is not equipped to contend with them, no matter how well read or how well she may think she understands the subject But being a buyer of 90 per cent or wording secretary. Mrs. H. F. Davidson, Hood River. Much annoyance and some expense is always Incurred when the dues are sent to the wrong officer. The secre tary requests in her report that when possible a draft or check ' be sent. Through misdirections last year sev eral money orders were lost and, while the Government is a safe custodian. Its red tape supply seems never to be ex hausted when It cooies to recovering a lost postofflce order. The red-letter pages of the year book should impress themselves upon every club officer. Two copies of the book have been sent to the president of each club for herself and her secretary and one to each committee member and several to each chairman. Last year the supply of books was exhausted be for the year was well along, but this year more have been ordered and may be had by applying to the correspond ing secretary, Mrs. Dunbar. To par tially cover the expense those who want extra copies are requested to inclose 15 cents with the order, as that is just about half their cost to the federation. There are still a nnmber of copies of the last report of the San Francisco the clothing worn, she does know and I convention in the hands of the state has a right to assert herself when It president, which should be disposed of comes to having these things genuine during the Winter. These reports con- and what they pretend to be. Some years ago the women of the country were aroused against the pur veyors of colored and adulterated iooas. With a protest that swept from ocean to ocean and deluged Congress, they forced through, against one of the strongest lobbies ever sent to Con gress. a pure food bllL The same - resentment that was aroused against impure foods is now brewing against impure fabrics, and if Representative IJndquist's bill falls to pass at this session of Congress history will repeat itself, for club women do not Intend, much longer, to stand the impositions of adulterated fabrics. It Is one of the measures now being taken ud actively by the General Fed eration and much literature Is being oirculated with the intention of edu cating the club women of the country to the necessity lor action in tno matter. ' A few weeks ago Charles Coopey, one of the most active men In the country for the promotion of a pure textiles law, gave an able address before the Portland Woman's Club on the subject Among other things he said: "The whole wool clip of the world would provide each person, outside of those living in the tropics, witn aDout 13 ounces of woolen cloth, or about one vsrd of 54-inch-wlde lightweight clotn. As it takes four or five yards to make a suit for one of you ladies, you can get an idea as to what many of you get when you buy some of those all wool suitings, or suits, as well as other woolen clothing, both outer and under garments. "We are Informed that all the wool goods made in the United States and sold as wool about 25 to 30 per cent la virgin or sheep's wool. The other 70 to 75 ier cent is compose! oi snoaoies. mangoes and cottons. These shoddies and munsroes are made from the old rags gathered chiefly from the ash bar. Tels and gutters of large cities, but modern Ingenuity has given this stuff a new name they call It "wool extract. to give It somewhat of a respectable aonearance.' Throughout the paper was so in structive and Illuminating that Mr. Coopey was Induced to place a copy of It in the hands or tne state president, that any club which is Interested in the subject and can find time on the pro gramme may have It Already several clubs have asked for it and others can have It by applying to the president. Pure textiles is one of the most im portant subjects clubwomen have en countered for some time and as there mill be a contest over It. In which club women will play an important part. It behooves them to Inform themselves on the subject. A competent Index to th growth of me Oreson Federation or r, omen 8 Clubs may be found in the year book, which left the printer's hands a few days ago. It Is, by a dozen pages at least, larger than any vt its predecessors. which the growth or tne ciud directory the increased number of committees and the enlargement of committee work made necessary. The book contains the names of the officers of the National and state fed erations, necessary dates for reference or Information, the president's address and the reports of all the officers, with the full report from all the committees. Including the report of the trustees of the scholarship loan fund. These committee reports, no doubt will be carefully read, as they should be. at a meeting of every club in the state. They are most Interesting and instructive and should be a wonderful source of Inspiration to the clubs. Two reminders are inserted In flam ing red. namely, that the last "Wednes day of January is scholarship loan fund day and that the dues are payable Jan uary 1 and should be sent to the re- tain all the proceedings of that won derful convention and all the ad dresses of that notable gathering of distinguished men and women. Every address' is given by someone who is an expert upon that particular line and every branch of club work or club ac tivity is represented. New clubs or those engaged in other club activities than study would derive special benefit from the report though the splendid literary work of Mrs. Potter and others will be found in it These reports are 50 cents and are sold, as the state year book, at a price that only partially covers the cost see Mrs. H. F. Davidson, of Hood River, recording secretary of the Oregon Fed eration, who is in New York for several months, has written the fol lowing interesting letter to the state president who feels she must share with the clubwomen of the state the pleasure she had in reading it Mrs. Davidson is a keen observer and It will be noted that her observations of New York, cover many fields, from home economics to politics. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are comfort ably ensconced in a rosy little apart ment at 165 West Third street She says: "New York. Dec IS. I received a copy of The Oregon La n of Sun day today. This Is the second I have had since I left home. Of course. i went right to the woman's page for club items, and I tell you It seemed good to see some familiar names. I see you are having monthly meetings, which I think is a fine thing, for it will bring out a good many things for the good of the federation as well as for the Individual clujj. I do not know whether I will be home for the one In February or not Miss Davidson is taking care of my mail for me, so any thing of a club nature will be forward ed to me at once. I have not received any dues yet, but they seldom begin to come before January 1. I am ready for them, as I have my receipt books and ledger with me. and will take care of them as I did last Winter, which was done without any trouble. "I notice at the meeting the moving pictures were mentioned as being shown outside of Portland after the censors had passed on them. If you remember. the one Mr. Winstock showed us at Portland when the fed eration met there, which he said was bad. was shown at Hood River soon afterward. It was the one which had a kidnaping scene, then the woman. who was a cigarette-smoker and the keeper of a dive, killed the kidnaper and then committed suicide. I have failed to see Miss Mary Hay yet I went there several times, but she was either out or too busy, and then she set an hour just before she left for Washington, but I was moving and I could not go. I will go as soon as she gets back, for I think she is still over there. I just missed Mrs. Pank- hurst by about an hour. I went down to see Mrs. Hughes, who bas charge of the woman's floor at the Hotel McAl pin. and is the lady mentioned In the Federation Bulletin on the little card sent out by It this Fall. Mrs. Waters. the editor of the Bulletin, lives on this floor at the hotel, but I failed to see her. I am going to look Miss Boswell up soon and try to get to some club meetings. "So far I have had a very pleasant time. Several evenings we have been out to dinner and had some auto rides and have another one promised for to morrow night with a supper at the end of it We were to go last Sunday, but it rained hard all day, just like Portland. I went to church In the morning at First Church, and heard that beautiful echo organ. "It seems so hopeless here for suf frage. The way the women work at it I went down to the office to meet Mr. Davidson yesterday and something came up about suffrage, and I told them I voted in Oregon, and they looked at me perfectly amazed. I told them I found instead of 1: degrading the women, it elevated the men. I told them of our election at Hood River, when the men put bouquets of flowers on the table and took off their hats and left their cigars outside, and fur thermore I had found the men In Portland more gentlemanly in regard to their treatment of women than I had found In New York or places where women dia not vote. 1 told them I went to church with the men, I walked down the street with them, I went Into the stores where they were, and to the postoffiee, and went up and paid my taxes, and why should I not go to the booth and vote. They did not see why either, when I got through with them. I told them that I believed I had a higher opinion of the men than they had, for I had always found them very nice to me, and especially so at the polls. Mr. Davidson then gave them a broadside. They content! we will vote as our husbands 3o. and then I told them how I had changed my husband's vote on two questions last Fall at our called election. I told them he was usually so busy he did not take the time to read the questions, and I did, and then when we got into an ar gument I would get the little pamphlet and read to him. I think they had a little better Idea of suffrage when I got through with them. "The weather has been very pleasant here with the exception of one or two days. Yesterday was very cold, but to day . Is nice and warm again. It changes so fast I cannot keep up changing clothes to suit the weather. We are on the fourth floor of the house, so get all the sunshine there is to be had. Our little apartment is very comfortable and cosy. I have gas and electric lights, - and it is fun to go shopping. I went- out the other day to buy some spinach and the man said 10 cents a quart. I smiled and said I would take a quart, and I know it amounted to nearer a half bushel. Ap ples by the quart and sweet potatoes by the quart I am getting good fresh eggs for 35 cents a dozen, but the fresh New York state eggs are 57 cents. These I am buying are shipped from Michigan and are very fine. I find things even more reasonable here than In Portland and I believe we are living a great deal cheaper than in Hood River. Where I went to buy my vege tables this morning I found a lot of big flies sitting in the sun on them. I Immediately went to the other side of the street It might be as bad there some other time in the day, but I did not see it. They are not very careful here, and I have had quite a time look, ing around for the best place to trade." A Few Definitions. ' Trial marriage Any marriage. Chauffeur A man . who takes life easily. . Bachelor maid A spinster wno nas given up hope. ' Heroine A woman wno can taiK back, but doesn't Pull The resource of those wh have no push. Salad days Those in wnicn tne long green Is plentiful. - CALIFORNIA CITRUS GROWERS RAISE $3,500,000 FUND TO FIGHT FROSTS Mammoth Sum Is Paid Up in Cash and Is Indication That Fruit Raisers Are Not Suffering From "Hard Times" Los Angeles Investment Company Weathering Storm Highway System Seems to Be Dying. Q3 9 &n Carlp CJrfetmas Carol By BEN H. LAMPMAN in Cold Hill JOr.J Newt fc fc God rest you. Merry Gentlemen! For Christmas draws anigh. The very Btars its portent fling Across the happy sky. The wind, that's whirled around the, world. Bears mumbled bits of prayer From girls and boys who ask for toys, , Here, there and everywhere. In every Christian land that lies , Beneath the star-strewn night There are a million childish eyes Aglow with wistful light. . ' And there are many little lips That "whisper gentle pleas For dolls and drums and sugar-plums And candled Christmas trees. I guess, at such an hour as this, Within this very town, ' -A score or more of little knees Beside their beds are down. That, ere the coverlets are smooth. When darkness comes with dreams. The Keeper of the Scroll has smiled Above his written reams. For Christmas time is very near, And very dear, to them, And they are very like, indeed. The Boy of Bethlehem! God rest you. Merry Gentlemen! I would not break -your peace, But that you are the stewards of The happiness of these. For well you know, that high pr low, " Upon the Christmas morn, v Tls meet that childish Joy should greet The day when Christ was born. Sure, there is not a one of you Has grown so bald and dour. But that he does not call to mind The Christmas morning hour. I guess that every one of you Would rather sponsor joy Than mock the faith and merriment Of any girl or boy; 7 - Than hear one lone, unanswered plea Go down to childish grief; Than know the wise old world had grown ... Another disbelief. For Christmas time is very near ( And very dear, to them. And they are very like. Indeed, The Boy of Bethlehem! LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 20. (Spe cial.) Under Its new management of directors, -the Los Angeles In vestment Company,-which last month was investigated by the Government and its officials Indicted, seems to be slowly weathering the storm. Judge Wellborn, in the United States District Court, has refused a petition to appoint a receiver, believing . that the present board of directors are capable of di recting its affairs and again putting the company upon a sound financial basis. The. future of the company will de pend to a great extent on the outcome of the annual .election, which will take place at the stockholders' meeting to be held January 10, 1914. Those now in control cannot plan ahead with surety until the personnel of the board, after the election, is as sured. A committee selected at a meeting of a portion of the stockholders held on November 22 to investigate existing conditions, have sent a letter to the stockholders asking for proxies to re tain the present board of directors In power. The board is now composed of D. A. Hamburger. Stoddard Jess, R. A. Rowan, W. H. O'Melveny, J. E. Fish burn, W. H. Allen, Jr., and Harry Chandler. That a stubborn fight over the selec tion of the board of directors will be waged in the stockholders' meeting is indicated by the fact that a number of the complaining stockholders met Friday night and organized "The Los Angeles Investment Company Stock holders' Protective Association." : The purpose of this organization Is announced as being To conduct a care fully planned campaign to secure prox les to make a fight on the floor of the stockholders' meeting to put in a board of directors who are interested finan daily In the company and who will give all their time to the affairs of the company. Final Tunnel Measure Passes. The final ordinance for the lowering of the grade of the North Broadway tunnel, to cost about $150,000, which will increase property values sur rounding the tunnel hundreds of thou sands of dollars, was passed by the City Council last week with, the dissenting vote only of Councilman Betkouske. Adoption of the ordinance was urged by scores of prominent Broadway 'mer chants and hundreds of property own ers in the assessment district, who will be called on to pay for the work. The general scheme for the lowering of the tunnel grade contemplates the first step to be taken by the city for the entire rearrangement of traffic conditions north of First street. John Wolfskill, owner of the famous Wolfskin ranch, lying west of the city and one of the last of the argo nauts, died at his beautiful home in Pasadena from infirmities incident to old age. the possessor of an estate which . Drobably will total" J2.000.000. He was 77 years old and had lived in Southern California for b3 years. Mr. Wolfskill early became con vinced that the way to wealth lay the pastoral resources of the state rather than in the gold diggings and came to Southern California. In 1S6S, In partnership with the late Edward McGary, of San Francisco, he bought the Escondido ranch, near San Diego, and ran sheep and cattle on its 13,000 acres. He sold his holding for $100,- 060 and bought the Los Angeles County ranch. Onlv once venturing Into politics, ha represented San Diego and San Ber nardino County in the State .Senate during the term of Governor Stone man. Much of the Wolfskill ranch land is now under lease for oil development Jack Frost to Be Fought. Three and one-half millions of dol lars to fight frost! This, according to Manager Hutchens, of the Fruitgrow ers' Supply Company, is the expendi ture California's citrus growers have made to date on the premise that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As the value of the citrus crop is estimated conservatively at S28.000.000, the expenditures made to extract j.he sting from old Jack Frost are comparatively small particularly as $3,000,000 of the total represents permanent not ephemeral, expenditures In the frost-prevention line. Figures furnished by Hutchens show that all told tbe citrus growers have SDent $2,500,000 this year in precaution ary measures against the frost. Inci dentally this outlay is spot cash, evi dence that last year's freeze did not by one whit decrease the growers' confi dence that the future of the citrus in terests in the state is embellished with assured dividends. It also shows. which is more to the point that the pessimists' howl of "tight money" in the citrus belt is mere vaporing, noth ing more. " m Another evidence of confidence Is ad duced by Secretary Wallschlaeger, of the Citrus Protective League, He nas been busy lately collecting data, on the new citrus plantings in the state, bo far Ventura County is the only one to furnish him with up-to-date informa tion. In Ventura County there was an increase In lemon acreage from 273R in 1912 to 55S0 acres this year, with the orange plantings in the same time in creased by 528 acres. Though Wall schlaeger frankly admits that Ventura County will probably show the greatest percentage of increase, preliminary re ports from other counties show that many trees have been planted, adding up a large total for increased plantings this year. Relief of traffic congestion in the business district of this city was fore cast recently when the Los Angeles Railway Corporation and the City Rail way of Los Angeles filed articles of incorporation here and with the sec retary of State at Sacramento provid ing for consolidation under the name of the Los Angeles Railway. Under the reorganization, with W E. Dunn, C. A. Henderson, G. E. Ward, S. M. Haskins, J. E. Brown, Frank Griffith and Albert Crutcher as in corporators, the $5,000,000 of the stock of the two former companies will be wiped out and the capital of the new company set at $20,000,000, fully sub scribed. According to ' Dunn, who returned last week from a conference in New York with H. E. Huntington, the new company will issue bonds to cover the $23,500,000 indebtedness of the two old companies and will authorize an additional issue of $26,500,000 in bonds to build tunnels and otherwise care for such improvements as are necessi tated by the growth of the city. The issue of these bonds will be sub ject, however, to the sanction of the State Railroad Commission. One of the greatest attractions that California might offer to the millions of her guests In 1915 Is seriously threatened with failure, and that is the state highway along the coast Long ago far-sighted men with the interests of the state at heart were convinced that one - of the most im pressive .showings during exposition year would be the two great state highway trunk lines extending from San Francisco down the coast to San -Diego, one near the coast and the other farther inland. Now because the people most in-1 terested, county officers, chambers of commerce, boosting clubs and other organizations have shown an apathetic lack of interest there appears prac tically no hope that even one of the lines can be built When the people of the state voted to spend $18,000,000 on a system of state highways they did so with the realization that the roads would be a tremendously valuable asset to Cali fornia and a good investment Coun ties at once undertook plans for lat eral or connecting highways aggre gating even more. A great plan for a $40,000,000 highway system to sup plement the good roads already con structed was auspiciously launched with an able board of State Highway Commissioners to direct it The Commission then adopted a policy of building highway sections In those counties or communities that were able and willing to float some of the bonds. This policy has been main tained and the amount derived from the sale of each block of bonds has been apportioned according to the de sires of the communities buying or arranging for the purchase of those bonds. Of the $18,000,000 issue about $5,000, 000 has been sold. Most of this. In cluding the amount on hand, has been apportioned according to the Commis sion's rule. All unpledged funds were used long ago. Public spirited bankers of this city arranged for the purchase of $670,000 worth of bonds and pocketed the loss, the market value being 96 or a trifle less, although a recent bid by one of the leading bond houses on the Coast was only 93. The state law prohibits the sale of any of the bonds at less than par. The problem, therefore. Is to arrange for the sale of the bonds at the loss of the difference between par and market and find some practicable method In which the loss can be ab sorbed without working undue hard ship. - It is possible, tne commissioners say, to complete both lines, even at this late date, so they can be used early in 1915. provided the funds can b3 secured. But there is no more mn to be lost. DEATH OF W.W. FINLEY BREAKS "12 GREATEST" Late President of Southern Eailroad Belonged to Modern School and Public Was Well Informed of Development Going Ahead. T THE death a few days ago of W. W. Finley, president of the Southern Railway, the combina tion of "the 12 greatest railroad men in the United States" is broken up. Mr. Finley was the first of the group of 12 which was selected oy exj-'erLa, including bankers, engineers and rail road directors in all parts of the coun try to die. wneiner anoiner yuio w be taken to fill his place is problemati cal. The combination of the "12 great est" exists only In fancy anyhow, but It represents the composite opinion or tha mn who orobably are the best judges of railroad men in the country. One of the men who received com plimentary votes when the original list was made up probably would be nameu. C. E. Schaff. of the Missouri, Kansas Texas, doubtless would be a favorite. as would B. F. Bush, of the reorgan lzed Gould system, although he has yet to prove his capability In holding the lines under him together. Miod Is Mentioned. There is a chance now for W. C. Nixon, the new president of the Frisco system, to make himself, one or tne "dozen." If he can get the road out of the receivership and make it a use ful agency for the development of the territory that it serves he will De count ed among the, near-great. If not the really creat The late Mr. Finley was one or mat modern school of railroad presidents who believed In acquainting the public with what the corporations are doing. He succeeded Samuel Spencer, who was killed in an accident on his own road. Contrary to Spencer's methods, which provided for expansion and extensive development, he adopted a more con servative course. Under his direction the Southern has become a powerful factor in the rejuvenation of the South. Like nearly all present-day railroad heads, he began work at the foot of the roverbial ladder. His nrst job was that of stenographer and he advanced gradually. Death Comes at 60. A few months aeo rumor connected him with a proposed reorganization- of the Harriman lines and It was reported, for a time that his energy and his I -v .'I? ! rSf fell ! "Jr.i! i W. W. Finley, Prrxldent of tile Southern Hallway. Whose Death Breaks Up Oroup of . "Twelve Greatest" Hallrond Men. X i t . knowledge of transportation afTairs would be given lo the further develop- ei't of the Coast, but ne denied having designs or. any position other than ins own, saying that there was so much work to do in the South that he wanted to pass the remainder of his active days there. He was not an old man only 60. Those In the group of the "12 great est" besides Mr. Finley are: James J. Hill, "the Empire Builder." who was unanimously selected to head the list; Marvin Hughitt. of the Chicago & Northwestern: Frederick D. Underwood, of tbe Erie; Jul. as Kruttschnltt of the Southern Pacific; E. P. Ripley, of the Santa Fe; Howard Elliott, of the New York. .New Haven & Hartford; Frank Trumbull, of the Chesapeake & Ohio; W. C. Brown, who has just retired as president of the New York Central sys tem: Samuel Rea, of the Pennsylvania; Milton H. Smith, of the Louisville A Nashville, and Daniel Wixlard, of tha Baltimore & Obit.
