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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1904)
PAGE TWO. THE - MORNING ASTORIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12tjj frff j t MorninAstpriaii ' Established 1873.' - DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY. RATES. . 4 . t .. -i .... . , y man, rw. year ........ By .mail, jht month . By vcrriers, per month .... , ..10 00 .. 50 60 utiou ami its improvements should be of a ptr,na nent character. Till; SEMl-WKKKLY ASTOltl AX. By mail, j er year, in advance ". fl 00 ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. HAVE SOME SENSE, GENTLEMEN. Mayor Suprenant has returned without his ap-j proval the ordinance passed at the last session of the council authorizing the committee on public property t advertise fos bids for the present city hall and the site upon which it stands. The mayor says in his! reto message that he believes the price fixed upon the property, $15,000, is too low1, and that there is a geu eral demand for a more costly building than has here tofore been contemplated by the council He sug gests thai action be Referred until such time as the city is financially able to erect a suitable building The common council is rapidly making no progress. During the past four or five months it has undertak en several proposals, and in almost every instance it has failed miserably to accomplish the ends sought The greatest fiasco was the city hall inud- ' die,'. which has made the council ridiculous in the eyes ot the community, me mayor s veio ot me or dinance will stand, for the reason that three members of the council will unquestionably vote to sustain it The killing of this measure will settle the city hall proposal for some time. So it has been with the gen eral demand for a dumping ground. The committee ' on public property selected a tract belonging to the cityj but upon the filing of a remonstrance the pro posal was dropped. Of course, the dumping ground proposal is off in a thousand places. Even so inconsequential a matter as purchase of a typewriter, it will be recalled, proved entirely be yond the administrative capacity of our municipal guardians, who were compelled to abandon the pro ject. Provision for heating the office of the chief of police was so stupendously bewildering that the e ouncflmen deliberately side-stepped it, preferring . to have the city pay $:W or, $40 a month , for gas heat rather than tackle the proposition. ; , The present council is making for itself a record n' which flip mpiiilors will have scant reason to feel proud when they retire again to the modest life of private citizens. In years to come they will look! back over the records of the municipality and con template the many things they have not accomplish ed and the very few proposals which they have car ried to a successful issue. They have wasted weeks in their persistent pursuit of phantoms, and it is about time they ceased this kill-o'-the-wisp legisla tion. MenuVrs of the city council my attribute their failures to several factors. In the first place, they fail to get together. New proposals are unexpectedly sprung at council meetings and opposition develops that engenders more or less hard feeling. One of the elements in the council is numerically strong enough to pass such measures as it deems necessary, but it not infrequently occurs that even the majority goes to pieces. The minority, which supports the course . of the mayor, is strong enough to sustain vetoes and thus thwart the will of the majority. The contention in the council results from the abuse of the power delegated one member to defeat prompt action through suspension of the rules. Seven of the eight members at present in the council fre . Tn4lir f.iTrci tfyvn viiiAT.n-.nl i'Viw.T- !- --i - 4- it4-Ti LATIN AS AN All) TO EXOLISU.V"" The English, hs a rule employVords ' with a finer feeling for the nicities of meaning than do the Amer icans, as a people, and the explanation of this lit probably in the fact that all English schools ami uni versities, until very recent years, insisted on the setudy.of Latin and Greek. Whether the institution of "modern sides" in most of the 'English public schools will effect precision of speech in England is a problem that must wait for an answer. 'American schools have never made so much of "the classics" as have the English schools, and this policy may In1 defended by many sound, strong arguments. Hut it is indisputable that a man who possesses a fair knowledge of Latin aud Greek especially Latin- will use English more accurately -other things le ing equal than a man who lacks that .knowledge. Of course, there are a number of writers who, though totally ignorant of those dead tongues, use English with exquisite precision. The rule is subject to many exceptions. And there are many who have Iteen put through a course of Latin and Greek with no per- ceptable gain in the art of using English words. Some people are born without a sense for perceiving lin guistic nicities, just as others are born, without a sense for gpotl music. ',; ! Some writers affect the "good old Saxon simplic ity m words, but in this, if extremists, they are quite as far in error as any imitator of the Johnsonese dialect, the San Francisco Bulletin Ixlicves. Eng lish is neither pure Saxon nor pure Latin and Greek. It is a thorough blend and mixture of the tvo. The Norman word has" become as English as the Norman baron. It has as much right in our English tongue as any word of pure Saxon derivation. In fact. without the Latin and Greek, derivatives English would be a bare, poor speech, inadequate for the converse of civilized people. And yet, since there are two sides to every argu ment, it is also the fact that knowledge of other tongues sometimes impares the idiomatie raciness of a man's own. native speech. William Matthews quotes Schiller as saying that he read no more than was necessary in" foreign languages because it was his business to write German, and he thought that by reading other languages he should lose his nicer perceptions of what belonged to his own. But Ger man is not so composit a language as English. Many writers from the time of Cicero, have remarked that women speak their native tongue most purely because they know no other. "A man who thinks a knowl edge of Latin essential to the purity of English dic tion." said Macaulay, "either' has never conversed with an accomplished woman or does not deserve to have conversed with her." Bunyan wrote racier, finer prose that the pedantic Milton. "Gulliver's Travels" is a better book than "Rasselas." Scientists are the worst offenders against Saxon simplicity. They persist upon falling back upon the dead languages for scientific terms, for the reason that these terms will thus be identical in all languages an intelligible to all learned men. Many words, once confined exclusively to scientific jargon, an1 now in ordinary circulation. Ancnt the adoption of scien tific expressions into the common 'speech Punch once established a clever bit of verse whose merit, more than its pertinency here, is an excuse for reprinting it : - ' 'I love thee, Mary, and thou lovest ine. Our mutual flame is like the affinity That doth exist between two simple bodies. I am Potassium to thine Oxygen. Sweet, thy name is Briggs, And mine is Johnson. Wherefore should not we Agree to form a Johnsonate of Brigggs! We will The day, the happy day is nigh, When Johnson shall with beautious Bgiggs combine." "CO TO 8SATTLE TO Oil. it liiHnjr5 that they will not mA bM J . ; , vuf thlr bunlnesa to the Montana Unique Rate War lends Inducement hi,.. The latter declart that they to ba Buried, 'net the buciiieaa In time any how. ! ftmttl rVb. tO.-Now w a cheap ! ira.nw who are burying their .im- .iu I., K.u.i.1 Thnr. I mi relatives will contract for tneir niicw .. ...- .h s MttWa-'dlracI from tha at able Inetead of go- uu nln mihI mithta hncka for funeral! ta undartukara. Th.. ..n.i..n..kra of th .Itv i.r? Iii on' l th iianllma tha public la wall- lha cut. . ... " aiixoUHly to aea the outooma of the Th II rat of th wnr lh leiullnir aln-1 unlqua war, blea HliJ ululfrtnkot'i of lhi city formt'di h combln wheivby Ihi'y iel to mlw )iliia for ivnl of hack for funarab. Th ilia nit lo tlKu:' whereby thv wr ehwhll;int. For liiMlanotM Waga Inortaia Not Pepuar, Nv York. JVb. 10. A pronoaHlon lo rnl" tha union rata of waa for i null-in niMvlna' at auniinar raaorta IS.K0 wiia vvfi lur .i n.KK io w.r gJ5 k f() wtm View wmairy. the na.iwat burlul pine- uf or,.hM(rM w, comt up jfora to tha city, i Th umlortikrra r loj ,n,,tMg of th, Mualcal Mutual lurnimi in uumnrw.wi i .l(,,,.Mve Union uaxt Tlturauay avan- ami th Httr In return for th ftivor wer to jy th umli'ilukora 20 wi ml of tlw Hiuounl' Ihi'y melvetl. Yetrdiy iift'initn the uwrlntiiil ent of Ihe Montunii atublca jH.ttil a notice Ihnt hla ciniNty would .with draw from the combine, and Ihul In th future he would rhai'K but V for hiu'kH. . . , ' i , ?. That notice has ktarted u war where by It l hWleved that In time th hack men will be making rlt no low that It will be an Inducement M com to Seattle to die. The underlakera renent the cut by Ihk- Many of tha union numbers op iMJKe the nuvgaatlon aa thy ara of tha opinion that many p'oprletor of aum mer rorta would try to t non-union playera If tha plan altould go Into af feet. other propoaala ara to Increaaa th pay of walking delgnte from 1500 to liooo ah for Ihe aeaaon. and to de mand hnU py for union muUlana In cnaa where thay ara unabla to" play on account of rain. The Itiat proposal la l.M.kl on with' favor by the membera. but the attempt to Increase tha pay Of walking dleatea la not popular. .Kverv dollar sent away from Astoria is a dollar lost. The trade-at-home spirit is what makes com munities. Patriotic Astorians, besides getting the greatest value for their money, Will likewise advance the interests of their own city by supporting The Astorian's 1904 directory. Local men are employed in its publication and their salaries are spent at hoim The merchant who invests in The Astorian directory the approval of the'' remaining member; who .blocks affords himself an opportunity of getting back some .action by refusing to agree to suspension. In excep-j0f his investment, whereas the merchant who gives tional. eases this sort of thing maybe entirely proper,) ,; eoin to outsiders sends that much money out of r but as a. rule it indicates remarkably poor judgment; the eitv. Tr, nnvs to he nntriotie on the part of the solitary member casting the nega- tive vote. Naturally some feeling follows, and nieni "hers of the council drift hopelessly apart, with the inevitable result that nothing is accomplished. In view of the fact that councilmen are merely agents of the city, it would seem that they should get onto themselves. So far as the city hall proposition is concerned th maWw ouite right. To build another barn such as we have now would be deliberate waste of, the people's moneys Astoria needs a new city hall, bt it cannot afford to erect a structure such as that recently proposed. The city is a permanent instt All we ever claimed for Wfexford Jones is that he is a good newspaper man. That residence in Asto ria should have made him proficient is merely incidental. Jefferson Myers has sprung IT.W.Scott's name for the vice-presidency. Wonder if Jeff is lately in receipt of a now-is-the-time telegram ? Every time the Japs sink a Russian vessel the 'av erage American feels like exclaiming:. " Welldone- ski ! Do it somemorevitch I" . St. Louis World's Fair News rROM HEADQUARTERS A Great Combination Offer We will furniHh the Ta kt-a- Week imueoftbe St. Louis Globe-Democrat WITH TIIK Twice-a-Week ' ,ht Astorian KOU Both Papers ONE YEAR THE ST. LOUIS UJjOKK.DKAIOCKAT Is inllued !eral-Weekly, eiK'ht page or more, every Toeaday and Friday. 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Flione Black 2085 673 Commercial St Astoria Ore, JAY TITTLE, U. D. PHYSICIAN AND 8UKGEON Acting AasiRtant Surijoon U. K. Marine , Hospital Service. Ofll.le hours: 10 to 12 A. M., 1 to 4) P. M. 477 Commercial Street, 2nd Foor. PRAEL & COOK TRAN5FER COMPANY. Telephone SO. DRAYING AND EXPRESSING AU ffooda abipped ta oar w Will reoelTa special aMentloo. No. (it fiaaae St. W. J. CQOX. Mgr. RELIANCE ' Electrical Works 428 BOND ST, We are thoroughly prepared (or maklnj eatlmatea and executing orders for all kinds of electrical. Installing and Repairing . Suppllea In atock. We aell tha celebrated 8HELBT LAMP. Call up Phone 11 CL H. W. CYRUS, - Mgr 'Tlsn't aafo to be a day without Elec trie OH in tha heaae. Never can 'tell what moment an' accident Is' joint ta bapsea. : 15 ami Baaalde for War-ll:Mpm :S0am renton. Flavel.l 7:20 pa 1:80 p ml lUmmond. 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