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A COINCIDENCE.
What a coincidence it is that as
some of the big lawyers of the na
tion were gathering in Montreal to
Tead papers about the uplift of jus
tice, others were flocking as buzzards
around the Thaw millions to share in
the fat pickings by striving to defeat
justice.
For seven years the Thaw money
has 'been a standing advertisement
of the fact that "justice" is for sale.
Conspicuous among many scandals of
its class, this one has emphasized the
lack of professional standards among
lawyers; the fact that our greatest
breeders of contempt for the courts
Are among the sworn savants of the
courts who make their living by per
verting its processes.
No poor devil in the ditch, goaded
to frenzy by the smart of wrongs for
which society as organized seems
without redress, was ever the men
ace to the existing order that these
well-fed, well-groomed, well-educat
ed lawyers are who prostitute their
brains and count it a privilege to be
hired to conspire to bringjustice to
a miscarriage.
The vice in the law is the same
that poisons so many other callings
greed. The laborer is worthy of
his hire, of course; but no man can
do clean work who thinks always of
his pay.
Suppose that the lawyer was like
the parson, employed on a salary;
and, since in theory he is a servant
of the state, employed by the state,
with no incentive to juggle but free
to give straightforward advice. Sup
pose that if you wanted to hire a
lawyer to get you out of a fix by
helping you to make a farce of the
law you would have difficulty in
finding one, because of a real code
of professional ethics which would
shame such a shyster out of the
Tanks. Wouldn't that be fine?
Revolutionary as it may seem,
there are some lawyers, more judges
and many laymen who think that in
no other way, If at all, can the law
yer's profession be reclaimed and
once more made respectable In pub
lic opinion.
History in the Making
WHAT DRESS IS PROPER?
We tire of the discussion of wom
an's dress. The question whether
the slit skirt and the X-ray gown are
proper is of little Importance. It
may shock some sensibilities and it
may do some good to state one eter
nal truth regarding woman's dress:
The woman who appears on the
street with her face free from paint
and her dress cut on moderate lines
is assumed by every man to be re
Bpectable, while the woman who ap
pears wearing the extreme of fash
ion, whether that be hat or gown,
is looked upon with questionable
eyes by the average man. The wear
er of an extreme style is frequently
a good woman, but her dress places
the burden of proof on her.
THE TOMMERCK COURT.
People who have followed closely
the work of the interstate commerce
commission during the last two years
and have witnessed how that body
has been hampered and harassed by
the commerce court, will be glad to
Vnow that the general deficiency bill
abolishes the ourt. The last con
gress voted to abolish the court, but
President Taft vetoed the bill.
The last cry to come up against
tariff revision came from diamond
merchants. They object to having
the duty on precious stones ad
vanced. Of course, diamonds are .
necessity with some people and It is
a crime to put the duty more than
that provided for In the Payne-Ald-rich
bill. The argument of the Jew
elers Is that advancing the tariff on
such articles is productive of smug
gling. It seems to us as if there Is
smuggling euough practiced by the
very rich who go to Europe In order
that they may load themselves up
with all 6orts of vulgar things.
Australia raises nearly 10,000,000
.acres of wheat a year.
Canada's Views on Mexico.
While negotiations with Mexico
are proceeding slowly, and though
the impatient regard them as unsat
isfactory, it is interesting to note an
unexpected result in their effect
upon Canadian estimates of the mo
tives actuating the United States. It
may be difficult for people in this
country to understand what justifica
tion there is for the suspicion that
we are desirous of annexing the Do
minion, but until the Mexican situa
tion it has been an ever-present fear
in Canada. In the days when Brit
ish and American relations were
strained that fear was naturally ac
tive, but it reached its height during
the war with Mexico, the misinter
pretation of which has kept it alive
ever since. Despite the facts too ob
vious to need recital Canada took
the view that the United States de
liberately provoked a war with the
Mexicans to secure a pretext for an
nexing Texas, and believed that the
next step would be to seize the Do
minion. Many years have inter
vened with nothing more threatening
than an occasional and wholly irre
sponsible indiscretion on the part of
some United States politician
Champ Clark, for instance, said some
foolish things about annexation dur
ing the course of the reciprocity de
bate and yet the fear's had not been
allayed in Canada until this coun
try, under what the rest of the
world admits to be the utmost provo
cation, showed both its forbearance
and magrfanimity toward Mexico.
Canadian papers, many of which
have harped upon the bogy that the
United States was only waiting for
an opportunity to "gobble Canada,"
are now busy in pointing out that
we are quite reasonable people, who
though insatiable in the matter of
commercial expansion have no de
sire for territorial aggression.
Anti-Strike Ijaw Proves Success.
There Is also interesting reading
in Canadian papers which are con
gratulating the country on the suc
cess of the law designed to abolish
Industrial warfare. The arbitration
measure has now been working for
a little over six years, and as many
of its provisions are copied in the
law which has just been adopted in
this country, Its success is reassur
ing. In Canada, whenever a strike
or lockout is threatened, the parties,
if unable to adjust their differences,
refer them to a board for settlement
before such a strike or lockout can
legally take place. Both sides name
a representative and these two select
a third or umpire. If the two dele
gates are unable to agree as to the
third man within a reasonable per
iod the minister of labor himself ap
points a chairman. After the con
ference is a settlement has been ef
fected it is reported to the govern
ment. If no solution of the diffi
culty has been found the board pub
lishes a report which is furnished
to the press, and becomes the basis
of a more enlightened public opinion
as to the merits of the dispute. The
department of labor has just fur
nished an account of all such trans
actions since the inception of the law
six years ago. In all there have
been 145 applications for boards. Of
these 40 had to do with coal mining,
11 with metal mining, 61 with rail
roads, 13 with street railroads and
seven with shipping. Strikes were
averted or ended in all cases save
18, which is to say that the Do
minion had an average of only three
strikes per year.
Startling Plans at The Hague.
If arbitration in industrial dis
putes becomes equally successful in
the United States it is estimated that
it will effect a saving greater than
our present annual outlay on arma
ments, which, despite the statements
of certain enthusiasts at The Hague
conference, is, relatively to European
countries, very small. There were
some unlooked for, curious and al
most amusing results at that confer
ence. It was seriously proposed that
there should be "an international
police organized for the peaceful en
forcement of arbitral decisions." As
to the details of the strength and
financing of such police little was
said, but It is curious as an admis
sion that mere arbitration is not of
itself sufficient, and that it will still
be necessary to have an army to en
force decisions. As it would have
to be a standing army of considerable
numbers to compel submission It Is
difficult to see wherein it would dif
fer from those now maintained on
the principle that preparation for
war Is the best guarantee of peace.
The suggestion recalls the occasion
when a Chinese, representative asked
the conference what should be done
If one party to a dispute wanted to
go to war and the other didn't.
KiigeniNts Make Odd Admissions.
Another great International con
ference which has Just been brought
to a close without accomplishing any
thing very definite was that on. eu
genics. It was called a conference
on school hygiene, but the eugenists
monopolized the deliberations.
Strangely enough, they, also, were
forced into admissions somewhat
damaging to their theories. Dr. Eliot
of Harvard, who made some alarmist
statements about the white race dy
ing of civilization, is a noted eugen
ist champion, yet he confessed that
"it is not yet clear how good breed
ing can be promoted among free men
and women." For all that the eu
genic party continues its agitation
for the regulation of matters that
from the dawn of history and before
have managed to regulate themselves
to the end that we are here a much
more vital and healthy race, as a
whole, than at many a previous
period. Dr. Eliot simply follows in
the wake of Professor Benson, who
in the course of a rebuke to the eu
genists said nothing as yet ascer
tained by genetic science justifies
wholesale tampering with the popu
lation. "Legislative tyranny and its
handmaiden brutality," he declared,
"are increasingly holding sway under
the guise of applied eugenics and
we may well wonder how genius and
the arts will fare in a community
constructed according to the ideas
of, say, Pennsylvania politicians."
Schools Run at Small Expense.
Leaving the theorists on eugenics
and school hygiene for the more
profitable study of practical results,
it is gratifying' to note that educa
tional history is being made in Mich
igan by schools which have solved
the problem of becoming self-supporting.
The inspector of the United
States Bureau of Education reports
that in Ishpeming schools have been
kept in repair, new buildings have
been planned and constructed en
tirely by student labor. In the past
six years high school students from
the manual training department
have been employed to repair the
various buildings. The boys have re
paired roofs, laid cement floors,
built brick walls and installed
plumbing fixtures. In addition, co
operative farming has proved to be
a source of profit for public school
students and "has served to keep
growing boys from drifting by giving
them an interest in agriculture."
This certainly looks like a realiza
tion of the ideal of so many noted
educationalists who long since de
clared that until scholars cease to
be trained at the public expense
solely and are taught to pay in work
at least the greater portion of the
cost of their training, they will never
be truly educated for the necessities
of a commercial era.
Xew York for Women on Farms.
Another distinctive form of educa
tion is seen in North Carolina, where
the women hold farm Institutes in
very much the same way as men.
Recognizing that the home is the
foundation of the farm, these women
attend conferences solely for the pur
pose of better instruction in matters
of health, house sanitation, cooking,
bread making, time-saving appli
ances, insect pests and every other
matter pertaining to the betterment
farm home life. The theory is that
the best way to keep men and boys
on the farm, and prevent the drain
to the cities, is to make the home
life so full of attractions and advan
tages it will contrast more than fa
vorably with life in the congested
centers. Beginning in 1906 with 21
institutes held in 19 counties, they
have grown to 231 institutes in 99
counties. It may not be amiss to
mention that politics of any kind is
not allowed, a fact which is set down
as responsible for the rapid growth
and continuous concord of the gatherings.
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The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Pass On the Praise.
"You're a great little wife and I
don't know what I would do without
you." And as he spoke he put his
arms about her, and she forgot all
the care in that moment. And for
getting all, she sang as she washed
the dishes and sang on as she made
the beds, and the song was heard
next door, and a woman there caught
the refrain and sang also, and two
houses were happier because he had
told her that sweet old story of the
love of a husband for a wife. As
she sang the butcher boy who had
called for the order heard it, and
went out whistling on his journey,
and the world heard the whistle, and
one man hearing it thought here is
a lad who loves his work, a lad
happy and contented.
And' because she sang her heart
was mellowed, and as she swept
around the back door, the cool air
kissed her cheeks, and she thought
of a poor old woman she knew, and
a little basket went over to that
home quith a quarter for a crate or
two of wood.
So because he kissed and praised
her the song came, and the influ
ence went out! and out.
Pass on the praise.
A word and you may make a rift
in the cloud, a smile and you create
a new resolve, a grasp of the hand
and you may repress a soul from
hell.
Pass on the praise.
Does your clerk do well?
Pass on the praise.
Tell him that you are pleased, and
if he is a good clerk he will appre
ciate it more than a raise. A good
clerk does not work for his salary
alone.
Teacher, If the child Is good, tell
him about it; If he is better, tell him
again. Thus you see, good, better,
best.
Pass on the praise now. Pass it
on in the home. Don't go to the
grave and "mother." Don't plead,
"Hear me, mother; you were a kind
mother, and smoothed away many a
rugged path for me."
Those ears cannot near that glad
admission. Those eyes cannot see
the light of earnestness in yours.
WHEN yon think o! "First National" yon think of
"banking." Why not, when yon think of "bank
ing," think of "First National?" II We grant every ac
commodation consistent with a safe and conservative
yet progressive business policy.
Firs! National Bank
Oldest National Bank in Jackson County
Depository of the United States, State of Oregon, Coun
ty of Jackson and City of Ashland.
Those hands may not return the em
brace yon wish to give.
Why call so late? Pass on the
j praise today.
What We Owe Mother.
How much we owe to the mothers
of the world all biography teaches
us. In the memoirs of every great
and good man the first figure which
rises before us is that of the mother.
We see her watching by the sick
bed, listening to the childish prayer,
assisting in the childish games, en
couraging the childish studies, mod
erating youthful ardor by the coun
sels of experience, inspiring hope and
energy in the hour of depression,
and ever maintaining
The constant flow of love that knows
' no fail.
It is the mother of the family who
warns and comforts and commands.
It is she whose resources should be
equal to any emergency, whose sym
pathy should unlock the sympathies
of every heart. It is she whose self
abnegation must always be forthcom
ing, whose wathfulness must never
fail, whose affection must triumph
over every discouragement, and
whose patience must be as inexhaust
ible as her affection. Her character,
in a word, must combine all these
qualities which the poet attributes
to the perfect woman
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, Btrength, and
skill.
How little we know of life! The
dirt under our feet, which we think
of with scorn if we think of it at all,
to it we owe our life and the joy
that comes when we contemplate the
beautiful in nature. The bird on
the wing, the blade of grass, the
worm that crawls across our path
way, each has a knowledge of nature
that we can never possess. Exalted
as man is, the ruler of all thing of
the earth, his ignorance of the varied
forms of life is enormous. The far
ther he gets from nature the more
stupid he becomes. His joys lessen
daily. Are not the joys of life made
tip of the simple, natural things?"
Health and love and a clear con
science these cannot be bought.
Without them the world is a prison
and life a burden. In the rush and
struggle of a large city, in the fierce
fight for place and wealth, it is dif
ficult to keep the conscience untaint
ed, and there is little time for love.
And for health, do we not need the
pure, invigorating air that blows
across open fields and through pine
forests, the quiet, the purity, and the
serenity of country life? .
Nothing Impresses us more than
the lack of enjoyment some parents
have during the children's happiest
days. , Either conscience so tyran
nizes over them that they have no
real pleasure, or they are haunted
by a fear that some evil will befall
their darlings, or the cares of life
are so clamorous and incessant that
they have no respite from their stress
and strain. While the children are
young and we are young with them,
let us take the sweetness which be
longs to us.
Missouri holds fifth place In the
United States in cement output.
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