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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER R C COLLINS. Edttw r N IIAYDEN, Msuagu- TOLEDO. .OREGON German wants to uorrow $250,000,000, but neglects to state whether It wants It in bills or small change. Anthony Comstock has put his foot down on the dlrectolre gown. We may expect to- hear something rip presently. cutting, and the Industry In replanting It Is by no means certain that Japan's forests are holding their own. If the preservation of the forests is doubtful there, it Is evident that depletion must be alarmingly rapid In other countries which cut unsparingly and plant very little. On the other hand, it is encour aging to see what can be done witn rough, steep and poor land. The United States has enough of that kind, with out touching the rich agricultural acres, to grow billions of feet of lumber. It must sometimes seem strange to David Bennett Hill that absolutely no body Is endeavoring to drag him back Into the political arena. Some of these secrets of long life would be more popular if they didn't begin with the advice to cut out nine tenths of the pleasures. The explosion of an automobile tire resulted In knocking the owner down. It is a treacherous machine that smites the hand that feeds it gasoline. One hundred and sixty out of 200 seniors nt Frlnceton admit that they have kissed girls. The other forty are irobably giving evasive answers. In order to simplify matters and save time will those portions of the country In which Mrs. Gunness has not been seen please place themselves on rec ord? A new play Is called "Stubborn On derella." Probably,' like most women, she declared she could wear the glass slipper, although It was three sizes too small. One Russian citizen accused of being a revolutionist was acquitted In St. Pet erslmrg yesterday. Hut we know one judge who Is going to lose his Job when the Czar hears of It. An Ohio man claims to have Invented an airship that "will stay up for months." It will doubtless make a hit with men who occasionally find It neces eary to dodge their creditors. Vu Ting-fang visited the Gunness farm nt Laporte. Probably some of the mandarins at home wished pointers on how to dispose of troublesome Individ uals who have been relieved of their money. To an audience of women Miss Ida Tarbell spoke of "our common enemy man." Now, that Is the sort of reason ablcness thnt puts the matter on n high plane and Is sure to convert the "com mon enemy." Great Britain also has Its railroad problem. A London financial magazine asserts that "It costs more to transport n pound of butter to London from Ire land than from Victoria, Australia, and meat reaches us from Argentina nt a lower rate thaii from ' the Scottish Highlands." They have a way of looking on the bright side of things in Oklahoma When a citizen in the arid district lost a valuable colt by drowning a while ago, the local newspaper commented that It was "a fine thing to have water enough out on the Staked Plain to lrown a horse." The progress of International peace In Central America is marked. Guate mala and Honduras are now trying to adjudicate land dispute that a few years ago would have been certain cause for war. If they fnll to agree on a settlement the matter is to be re ferred to the Joint court of the re public recently established. Nicaragua Is preparing to beat her swords Into plow-shares and her spears Into prun ing hooks. Three out of the five ships In her navy nre to be disarmed and leased to a commercial company for the transfer of passengers and freight. If the problems of International peace can be thus worked out by these na tions, why not by the larger peoples of he world? in tnese times or great drains on the timber supply, caused by the hepvy demand for forest products of all kinds, Americans may see In Japan an exaiu pie of what can be done in growing wimxI on small plots. That country eon tains twenty-one million wood lots, about three-fourths of which belong to prlvnte persons and one-fourth to com munes. The average size of the plots Is less than nine-tenths of an acre. They usually occupy the steepest roughest, poorest ground. In this way land Is put to use which would other wise go to waste, and If unwooded would lose Its soil by the wash of the dashing rnlns. From Japan's wood lots, the yearly yield of lumler is about eighty-eight feet, board measure, per acre, and three-fourths of a cord of fire wood. In many cases the yield Is inuc higher. More thnn half a billion trees nre planted yenrly to make up what Is cut for hnnlier and fuel. Assessment for taxation Is low, averaging for the twenty-one minion lots less than a dol Jar an acre. With all the care In The success . of Governor Hughes' campaign for the repeal and amend ment of statutes under which betting within race track Inclosures was an act without criminal penalties In New York State probably means the end of the "racing game" as It has been here tofore played In the United States. An end has beeu put to a real and strong effort to make the sport of horse racing socially respectable to ameliorate the known evils connected with it to make It a decent amuse ment for those who felt that they cojld afford to Indulge in it. Very large property values have been nffect ea. It is estimated that horseflesh which for the purposes of the game was worth $20,0(10,000 may now be worth from one-fifth to one-tenth of that amount. O titer uses will have to be found for lands occupied by tracks and for buildings on them valued for their recent uses at $27,000,000 and Immediately worth for other purposes very much less. The owners of this property have, of course, no right to complain. This was a chance they took when they put their money Into It. It Is a well established principle of American law thut when the sovereign people become of the opinion thnt an occupation or amusement is dangerous to public health or morals they may by due process of law put an end to It. The people of the State of New York would seem to have become of that opinion with respect to a form of sport which, , Its advocates have contended, cannot exist unless people are permit ted to make wagers over it. The ap peal was made directly to them by Governor Hughes. Whether or not the law should be changed was made the Issue In a district where a special elec tion was necessary. And every mem ber of the Legislature was virtually forced to Inquire and decide how his constituents wished him to vote. The, was no "referendum" In legal form, but there was one In moral fact. Horse men all over the United States have received a heavy blow In the New York law. Kentucky, for example, has millions of dollars invested in breed- ng farms for the production and train ing of thoroughbreds. The New York lnw strikes this industry directly, and owners and breeders estimate that they face tremendous losses in the depre ciation of their holdings. For with no racing In New York their principal WEST WANTS MORE CABINET MEMBERS. By J. B. Case. There are certain big things to which I be lieve the great trans-Mississippi section is Justly entitled, regardless of party or partisan politics. It should have either the President or the Vice President of the United States. The Secretary of the Interior, whose pur pose is to deal with the States lying almost wholly west of the Mississippi river, should be a resident there, and thus be practically and personally familiar with the conditions of that sec tion. . The Secretary of Agriculture, now a resident of Iowa, who has' most to do with the country west of the Mis sissippi river, should continue to be a resident thereof. Then the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Treasury or the Postmaster General should also be a resident of the trans-Mlsslssippl country. One cabinet ofllcer should be taken from a Southern State. This, Instead of making the President's cabinet larje ly a group of gentlemen' whose homes have been since youth along the Atlantic coast and whose deepest In terests are there, would give us In that cabinet practical men with a thorough knowledge of the conditions and necessities of the West and South. Such a cabinet would cany with It the very Influence that we need before the national Congress, and would enable us to stand on a level with the rich and powerful East in obtaining these things that make for real prosimi-Ity and advancement. FEDERAL REGULATION NOT NEEDED. By Ex-Attorney General Harmon. Two excuses are advanced for federal Intru sion into State affairs. One is that the States do too little and the other is that some of them do too much In the way of railroad and cor porate regulation and other corrective meas ures. These are not contradictory, as they might at first appear, because there may be both too little usid too much public Interfer ence with the conduct of business,' and both are harmful, though my inherited and acquired ideas both lead me to fear the too much more than I fear the too little. It is often hard to draw the line between useful regu lation and harmful meddling, and harder still to have that line respected wheu politics unfortunately becomes Involved with questions relating to business, and public feeling is aroused. A great many tilings are none the less home affairs because they may be or become re motely related to commerce among the States, the regu lation of which Is granted exclusively to Congress. If the federal authority should be extended over all of these the States would soon become mere regions. The pretext for such extension of power is that rail roads, telegraphs, etc., have brought about the commer cial unity of the States. Hut this Is no reason at all, because such commercial unity was the very object in view In framing the clause which gives to Congress the exclusive power to regulate commerce among the States; and as the clause accomplishes the purpose Intended, why should anybody seek to twist it out of shape by forced construction? , '. . N PROBLEM FOR THE BOY'S FATHER. By John A. Howland. That father who at the present time looks about the prospective fields of specialization li'. behalf of his young son confronts a situa tion which is perplexing. Long ago the world began to prepare for specializing In human occupations. As the sum of human knowledge grew the fact obtruded that for one man to learn and execute a one man's work to the best advantage he should master a specialty which would be a linking part in a whole structure in which many specialists each had a builder's place. Whatever that arbitrary subdividing may be, how ever, It will be accepted as economic lnw. To-day no farmer within reach of markets would depend upon the old general farming for profit, no matter how his father may have scorned the introduction of the agricultural school twenty years ago. In the same manner the doctor who to-day specializes In diseases of the "eye. ear and throat" may live to see the Impossibility of his young son's embracing half so much as a profession. Nor can this same specialist say with certainty that In the next Utsuly-flve yearn such illscuoe groups may not disappear altogether. These are suggestions only. They have a rightful bearing upon the family and community life as subjects for thought. AMERICA NEVER BETTER OFF THAN NOW. By Former Gov. Odell of Pew York. Our government, which has ex isted for over a century and a quar ter, is Just as good to-day hs it was in the beginning. Our people are as patriotic and as capable of government as ever in cur history, but we have a genu which induces men not to commit murder exactly, but to wallow In a trough of blasted reputations. Too much credence Is given rumors and too little to facts. It requfred great courage to build railroads through an unpeopled country; it required all Hamilton's geulus to devise laws for the encouragement of industries; It re quired liberal Interpretations of our constitution to make our country great, and nothing has been accomplished without abuse and criticism; ami yet, as history makes heroes of our forefathers, so will the future give to our capable captains of Industry other titles than "robber barons." EX-GOV. ODELL. CHICAGO'3 COLISEUM. Taft tlon obtains wherever race horses are bred. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Unlucky Bnlldlns in Which Wax Nominated. Chicago's Coliseum, at Wabnsh ave nue and 15th street, the building In which the Republican national con- vention was held, has been an 111- "ated structure. FAULTY. On Auc. 28. 180!). two davs nfter ihe last of the enormous arched gird That the general educational system ers of iron had been put into place, in use in the United States Is faulty"11 of tnei. 12 in number, fell like a is the belief of President Arthur H.row f 10 P'"s. crushing out the lives Hadley of Yale University. His posi-of nl,1 workmen and causing property tion is tlmt the idea of giving all stu-1"""1 of $30,000. The girders, dents the same kind of Instruction Is which rench from one side of the build altogether wrong. ln8 to the other and which constitute "Different men need different meth tne sole support of the vaulted roof. ods of instruction," says President hnd beon Placed, but not securely fas- Ilodley. "I would like to see courses Commissioner Williams ordered the Coliseum closed on the theory that It was, at least technically, unsafe. It did not have frontage on three streets or alleys, as provided for buildings of that class. This objection was over come and the building reopened. Since thnt time It has been used as the Madi son Square Garden of Chicago. Three years before the collapst of the present Coliseum a high wind blew down the framework of one that was being built in GM street to serve the same purpose. When this first Coli seum was demolished there was no loss of life. some time. We all think' she's Improv ing.' "I Just meant I hoped she'd drop Iti some time when there were folks here, and we were having music. But she took it that I meant I was sorry she couldn't hear. Did you ever? "Well, she up and remarked, verj loftily indeed, 'I think she's improving, too, Mrs. Kussell. I was going by this morning, and heard her plavlng way out on the sidewalk, and she seemed to have real touch real touch!" A Delicate Tonch. Old Miss Burbee was very deaf, and very sensitive about .her infirmity. , r , , JLJh CHICAGO'S GHEAT COLISEUM. PRESIDENT HADLEY OF YALE. tened. While the entire forec of men were nt work nt 4 o'clock In the after noon the most northerly girder fell to- ; ward the south. It carried the next of study divided into three groups. I one, and all 12 went down with a crash would make u scientific, a literary and 't was heard throughout the central a practical group and assign pupils to business section of the city. them as their talents suggest." No adequate reason for the fall of Hadley Is one of the foremost edu t,1(! R'nrs and Its consequent loss of cators of the country. He Is not ofllfo was given further than the the the general type of college presidents. orJ' that a traveling crune used for He Is a small, bearded man, and hasllfllllS ,ron l,,''s hod become loosen the smile of the good fellow and the e(1 "nrt allowed to pull against the handshake of the politician. When fll-Ht Brder- Attr the accident the Hadley begins to talk things education- (filers were replaced and the building al you see at once why and through was completed s rapidly as possible, what he achieved distinction. He gets Attcr tlle Irwiuois Theater disaster, away from beaten paths. He has Ideas tlmt C0Rt ,i0 llveg. In Janunry. I004 of his own, and he Is neither afraid U ',ml "roused the Chicago building olll express them uor put thein to work. clal t0 unwonted activity, Building Such was her natural cleverness and Ingenuity, however, that she usually escaped from serious embarrassment; und she always so. vehemently scorned ear trumpets and devices of mechanical nature that her friends no longer dared to suggest them to her. But on one occasion things went not according to schedule. v "She came In to borrow some mag nzines yesterday," said Mrs. Kussell, who lived next door, "Just after the piano tuner had gone. He'd been here all the morning, making such an out rageous racket that I felt sure even Miss BuglxK! would be annoyed. But she hadn't been, not a mite. "I said to her, 'Miss Bugbee, I wish you could hear my daughter Sarah play Poet, Not Knrtner. The Farfleld Grange was holding its midwinter meeting, the topic for dis cussion being poultry. The president of the society had prided himself on having arranged for a large variety of papers, which, taken together, would completely exhaust the information of the community regarding hens. Ques tions of food, of iortable houses, of packing eggs and of Incubators had all been adequately treated. At last the president announced, "Mr. Ethan Noble will read a paper entitled, 'An Even ing in the Poultry Yard.' " He was a slight young man, ana there was n little stir of amusement among the farmers as he rose, for Ethan's trials with chickens were fast becoming village tradition. "There Is no place In the world," be gan the reoder, "more poetic, and I may say inspiring, to thoughts that a poultry yard lu the evening. It Is nfter the sun has set and the roosters and hens are all sitting on their nests. The evening air is deeply scented with dew. From the river winding in silvery curves ndown the vlen comes the sug gestion of repose, of quiet, of the in finite restlessness of the universe. Now and then are heard the squeaking of the chicks In their nests or the scratch ing of some little one trying to break forth from her shell. As I lean on the parapet I reflect on the young, fresh life about me " When the rending was over, a sturdy citizen leaned forward in his seat. "Ethan," he said, confidentially, hut loud enough for nil to hear, "I never knew before why you bought eggs, but I do now-" Anatomy. The Professor Some of you geitle men are not giving me your closest at tention. Mr. Biggs, what do you find under the kidneys? Future M. D. Toast, sir. Puck. Some men make both ends meet by dining on oxtail soup and beef tongue
