Monday, February 17, I9I.
FACE TWO
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STRIPPING OFF THF. MASK.
Senator Cummins and other emi
nent republican!! who are progressive
just as far as they can see fat offices
by ao doing, have Wen strenuous in
the'r claims tint the six-year presi
dential tenure, with no second term,
amendment was not aimed at Tlieo
dorse RooseveU. The New York
Times, however, strips off the mask
in ihe following:
"Mr. Roosevelt may not be very
happy over it, but he has unques
tionably set or. foov a movement for
one of the most important cholines
ever proposed .in cur national con
stitution. The amendment approved
by the senate on Saturday limiting
the tenure of the presidency to one
term of six yenrs would in all like
lihood never hive got beyond the
stage of absiract discussion had not
the career of Mr. Roosevelt con
yinced a large number of his coun
trymen that a curb was needed for
the ambition or possible occupants
of the White House. "
The New York Times, bein the
official organ of high finance and
low morals, as exemplified by Wall
street and New York's smart pet, of
course favoro anything which would
debar such a thorn in the flo:;h of
these classes as Theodore Roosevelt
is and will be, whether the plan to
ligislate him out oi the 1916 cam
paign succeeds or not.
It is a strong indictment to place
against the American nation that it
is not sufficiently intelligent to know
whether or not it should elect any
ma.i to office.
The talk that it will prevent a
president using nia power during his
first or second term to secure an
other, is bor.h. In these days there
are other rewards In the gift of the
interests that nro worth much more
than the presidency, r.nd a president
can in one term of six years rope
and hog tie ihe American people so
as to deliver them and the machin
ery of governme.it to the interests
much more easily than ha can in
four.
The only legitimate reason for a
ix-year term is that there will not
be a'disturbance of business by n
campaign or change of administra
tion so often. BuL ihe change each
six years will b'e more absolute be
cause if there is not a change of par
ties there will be of presidents and
cabinets.
With the increasing of the pri
mary system and its application to
the presidency the attempts to con
trol the making of presidents by the
interests will become more and more
futi'e, and there will be little need
of safeguarding the country by de
claring that a fnithful servant can
not be returned by a. majority of the
voters.
Politicians of both old parties
united, not to put more power in the
hands of the people, but to deprive
thei.t of supporting a man whom the
interests hate and fear as they hate
and fear no man who has appeared
on the political horizon since the
interests existed.
JUST A SUGGESTION.
Governor Lister of Washington is
beginning to promulgate the idea
that the time has come when we
should begin to improve more at
home und advertise less abroad.
There is little doubt that this sort
of talk will find an echo in many
places. Indeed, it is quite well worth
while to give it K.erious considera
tion. We have here in the Pacific
northwest incomparably the finest
territory over which the American
flag floats. All it needs is to be dis
covered. We hive been trying fever
ishly for some years past to attract
people here. Wouldn't it be quite
as well to take things just a little
easier and let them work out in
their own way? Above all things,
wouldn't it be better nnd much more
pelf-respecting, if not actually hon
est ,if we were a little more care
ful about the sort of advertising mat
ter that we Issue and the unqualified
line of talk which we therein give?
We ask the questions. Isn't there
something in the;.i that is really
worth thinking over?
TOO MA VI' PLUMS.
' Evening Telegram: There'is some
hitch over the congressional appro
priation for the exposition at San
Francisco. When the matter came
up in the house of representatives
the other day there was no action;
nor will there be any until the next
congress convenes.
The bill in aid of the San Fran
cisco exposition calls for an appro-
i priation of $2,000,000, which sum
the federal government, perhaps ju
diciously, will spend at the Bay City,
but not under the provisions of the
bill itself. The difficulty lies in the
plums the bill provides. As an in
itial item there provision for seven
commissioners, each to draw an an
nual salary of $7,500 the salary to
begin as soon as the appropriation
is made and the commission appoint
ed, and to end when the accounts
of the exposition are closed. This,
as already stated, is initial. Subsid
iary to it, and probably of greater
moment, is the flock of official sine
cures in the form of clerkships, sec
retaryships and other and various
a vocational opportunities where the
service is negligible and the pay is
good. It is thought that possibly a
sixth to a quarter of the entire ap
propriation would eventually ripen
and be plucked into the plum basket.
It is not held at Washington that
San Francisco is responsible for this
arrangement, but it looks as if San
Francisco might suffer by reason of
it. Time was, immediately after the
Jamestown fiasco, that there was
quite emphatic declaration in con
gress that the day of the exposition
appropriation had passed.
There is exception in the case of
San Francisco because the San Fran
cisco event is to be extraordinary
and of unusual world significance.
But with all that the people of that
good city had hen try to have this
appropriation bill pruned down to its
legitimate proportions, or at least
have it stripped of its plum-picking
allurements. Uncle Sam should be
liberal with San Francisco, and prob
ably will be. if it can be shown that
the liberality will be converted into
a tangible asset at the exposition.
DECLINE OF THK HANDSHAKE.
Many simple-minded people find
nowadays that the handshake is
much out of fashion. '
President-elect Wilson, who is go
ing to cut out the presidential re
ceptions, may be justified for a dis
taste for the role of the human
pump. But the decline of the hand
shake is ordinarily brought about by
less practical reasons. A leading
fashionable club of St. Louis has de
creed that it must go, and it substi
tutes the formal bow. Unpreten
tious people find, that their extended
hand is view with considerable sur
prise, as a suggestion of rusticity.
One thing may he counted on, that
however unpopular it is in society,
the handshake won't go out of busi
ness. Any man with any skill in
salesmanship knows how a good,
generous hand clasp suggests cordi
ality and personal interest. When
did r. man ever sell a bill of goods
after greeting his "prospect" with a
formal bow?
No matter how gracefully you may
incline your head and bend your
body as prescribed by society, this
form of greeting is formal and arti
ficial. No degree of correctness can
ever put any humt'.n feeling into it.
It savors of the ballroom rather than
of the home circle.
And how much a good hearty
handshake does mean to the strang
er or the lonely! The writer attend
ed a church service in a strange city
a snort time ago, and after it was
over the clergyman stood at the door
shaking bands. His big fist had just
the right warmth of greeting. It
seemed to say, "Glad to see you!
Anything we can do for you? Ho
you want friends? If you do, come
around! "
The handshake may go out of style
amid the stiff and starched precincts
of the smart set, but everyday people
who have sentiments and emotions
to express will find that the press
tire of the hand tells a more effect
ive story than anything the blunder
ing lips can spell.
HOW'S BUSINESS?
"Business is poor," said the beggar.
Said the undertaker, "It's dead!"
'"Falling off," said the riding school
teacher.
The druggist, "O vial," he said.
"It's all write with nie," said the
author.
"Picking up!" said the man on the
dump.
"Business is sound," quoth the
bandsman.
Said the athlete, "I'm keeping on
the jump.
The bottler declared it was "Cork
ing!"
The parson, "It's good!" answered
he.
"Makes both ends meat," said the
butcher.
The tailor replied, "It suits me!"
THE WRONG WAV.
The philosophy of the World Peace
Foundation, as we glean it from the
circulars it has sent -broadcast,
amounts to this:
The way to get the better of w in
ter weather is to tear down the walls
ct your houses. Then the wintpr,
shamed and humbled, will go away
forever.
The cure for burglary is to take
your portable possessions out on the
sidewalk and go away. The house
breaker, moved profoundly by t!iis
trust in him, will quit his evil ways
and forever walk the paths of right
eousness. The method warranted to do away
with high finance, the get-Tich-quit k
industry and using a hole in the
ground as a basis for a stock issue
is to repeal all laws which in any
way would interfere with gentlemen
who engage in these affairs. Thus,
they will see a great light and go in
for rose culture as a sort of adver
tisement of their regeneration.
Any of these suggestions for deal
ing with unpleasant things and un
godly persons is no more ridiculous
than the recommendation that uni
versal peace can be brought about
by this nation disbanding its army
and discarding its navy. Nations, at
least in this stage of the world, are
without morals selfish because they
must be, greedy because they must
deal with greed. Remove your pro
tection against winter and you have
winter still. It is the same with
war. Cast away the national de
fenses and you but invite war to do
its worst.
No Cause for Worry.
A great number of nervous per
sons are worrying lest the operation
on the tariff is going to throw busi
ness entirely out of gear, close the
factories, shut up the bank vaults,
force the abandonment of cultivated
acres and bring on a ravishing
panic. Before this worry gets the
better of them, these folk ought to
contemplate the trade erports, which
show that:
The United States is doing the
greatest Import and export business
in the entire career of the nation.
The transportation lines are hav
ing extreme difficulty in meeting the
demand for cars.
The steel companies are several
months behind in filling their or
ders.
The industrial centers are report
ing a serious dearth of labor.
The building trades are busy in
every city.
The greatest crops ever raised in
this country have not all been moved
and paid for.
Before the general effect of all
these things can be overcome, the
tariff must virtually be butchered.
It is no part of the intention of the
democrats to do this. There are
two excellent reaso.ns why they will
not. One is that there are very
nearly as many protectionists among
democrats as there are among repub
licans! The other is that the demo
crats have no wish to sacrifice their
present power in order to test a free
trade theory.
There will be prosperity after the
tariff has come from the operating
room as there is now. This country
has passed the stage in which a few
hundred law makers can absolutely
halt the country's growth.
Where Discrimination Lies.
When Wilson said at Chicago,
"You must' put the credit of this
country at the disposal of everybody
on equal terms," he evidently meant
that the same test should be applied
in all cases. The Saturday Kvening
Post says that, where the collateral
and the standing of the borrower are
the same, credit is extended with
perfect equality. It should lie, but
it is not always. A man of the
highest standing may try to raise
money on unexceptionable collateral,
but if the enterprise in which he
wishes to invest the money would
compete with some enterprise in
which the banker is interested, can
he always raise ths capital? When
the greatest banks, which alone are
able to make loans of the largest
magnitude, are at; controlled by a
small coterie of men who also con
trol nearly all the railroads and big
industries, the chance of securing
from these banks the money to build
a competing railroad or factory is
extremely slim. Doubtless Wilson
had in mind such cases when he ut
tered the words quoted.
The crossing of the Delaware riv
er by Washington just before the
battle of Trenton, which was one of
the turning points of the revolution,
is to be commemorated by the pur
chase of the property on which the
landing was made, and its use as a
public .park.
One settlement worker in New
York city has made a specialty of
teaching boys how to make articles
of furniture out of old packing
boxes.
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
George Washington.
All over this broad land the 22nd
of February, Washington's birthday,
is celebrated.
How shall any man add aught to
the praise and eulogy of George
Washington? History and biogra
phy, eloquence and poetry have ex
hausted their combined efforts upon
the successful leader of the Ameri
can Revolution and the founder of
the American republic 'our first
grett national hero.
Every great crisis in the history of
the world has found its great man to
guide and control it. Call this provi
dence or accident, the American rev
olution was no exception to it. Be
fore the first murmurs of d'scontent
were heard in th, struggle the man
was being prepared for the crisis.
On the banks of the Potomac and
Rappahannock, thirty years before
Lexington and Bunker Hill, a truth
ful and manly boy was growing up
ripening into stalwart young man
hood. With only the common school
education of that day the young man
was soon being educated in the
broader school of nature and experi
ence, in the great forest, under the
open heavens, with his surveyor's
chain and his sword, in the Ijidian
wars, defending the frontier settle
ments from the savage incursions.
Growing still apace, the manly
young Virginian is soon the leading
spirit and military commander of all
Potomac region, and his skill, endur
ance and courage in those cam
paigns swell the measure of his fame.
Then with his peace the young com
mander lays aside the sword,- mar
ries and settles upon his inherited
country seat at Mt. Vernon and, like
his ancestors, is now a rich landed
proprietor, a farmor and planter and
gentleman. So he might have re
mained to the end had not the voice
of patriotism called him to take part
with his neighbors and the oppressed
people of the colonies against the
tyranny of the mother country.
Washington sat with Jefferson and
Richard Henry Lee and. Mason and
Pendleton, colleagues to that first
continental congress at Philadelphia
St. Valentine's Day.
Superstition is nearly as old as
man. and that it exists now quite as
strong though not as widespread as
in the early ages of our world is
proved by the various rites and cere
monies practiced on certain days
throughout the year. Even those
who ridicule them, yet participate in
them "just for fun," have a lingering
half suspicion in their minds that it
might come true; especially is this
the case when inclination paints the
way. St. Valentine is the acknowl
edged patron saint of lovers; and the
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peculiar customs connected with the
day were referred to by writers near
ly 500 years ago. The St. Valentine
who'suffered martyrdom on the 14th
of February was one of the fifty-two
saints of that name, but nothing has
ever been found in his life or in the
lives of any of them that would give
occasion for the singular observance
of the day. It has been maintained
that it was an ancient custom among
the Romans during the Lupercalia,
celebrated in the r.ionth of February,
for the men and toys to draw the
names of their future wives in honor
of their goddess, Februate Juno, and
that the Christian clergy finding it
absolutely impossibel to abolish this
heathen custom, changed it to a re
ligious ceremony by writing on the
slips of paper instead of the names
of women those af particular saints
whom they were to follow and imi
tate during the year.
If you have maJe up your mind to
live in a town, then stand up for it,
and if yon know positively no good,
then silence is golden. Do ail you
can to help along every man who. is
engaged in legitimate business. Do
not send away, for everything nice
you want and still expect the home
men to suit the whim of one or two
possible purchasers. The success of
your fellow townsmen will be your
Biiccess. Xo man liveth to fiimself
and no man does business indepen
dent of his fellow business men.
Take your .home paper. Do not im-
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If You're Shopping
" This Week
If you're "just looking,", or . if
you're buying, call at our garment
department andtcke a look at the
first arrivals of new Spring Coats
and Suits. We cannot say too much
concerning the style, refinement and
.... nie woia auu suns we re show
ing for women and misses. And it
takes just a littlo money to buy one
of our garments.
SEE WINDOW DISPLAY OF NEW
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'agine that the big dailies fill up a.!
this space. There are many little
crevices of good theer, social sun
shine, personal mention, in the honin
paper that the big dailies do no',
print. Then do not abuse you
neighbor. The main difference iu
the number of his faults and you:
own is that you see through a magni
fying glass as t critic. The ill
omened, the croaker, can do mor.
harm in a minute than two good cit
izens can repair in a month.
It is remarked that the mail order
I houses have not relaxed their effort
to get business just because a few
- dull months in the year appear.
They everlastingly keep a the adver
tising end of their business.
A man doesn't discover that there
is a boundary line between his own
lot and his neighbor's until the first
snow falls and he has to clean tht
walks. An exchange says that gossips haw
motor cars beaten to a frazzle when
it comes to runnh'g people down.
The parcels post will do most any-
I thing but darn socks and rock th
I baby.
A soft answer trrnest away wratN
but has no effect on a book agent -
The very time to be pleasant i
when the other people are cross.
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