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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1904.
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ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
HOW MUCH HASH IS TOO MUCH!
Forty one employes of the bar dredge Chinook
have quit their jobs because of an over-supply of A" with the provision of this section.
rerning the legality of withdrawing public lands
from settlement ' 1 ':
, The director of the United States treologienl sur
vey hasreeoinmeuded that all latds .within half a
mile on each side of the cent er lino of Salmon river,
Okaiuwtu i county, Wash., together with the water
flowing on them; be withdrawn from further dispo
sition, as they are requiml for engineering works
contemplated under the provisions of the act for
the reclamation of arid lands. Mr, Campbell de
clared, however, that there is no authority to make
such executive withdrawal of. public, lands within
a state as will reserve the waters of a stream flowing
over them from appropriation under the laws of
the state, or will in any manner interfere with its
laws relating to the control, appropriation, use, or
distribution of water. ,
He based his opinion upon section H of the re
clamation act, which states that in carrying out
the provisions of the act there. shall be no inter
ference "with the laws of any state or territory
relating to its control, appropriation, use,' or dis
tribution of water used in irrigation, 6r any vested
right acquired thereunder," but that the procedure
shall be in "conformity with such laws." A with
drawal of V waters from appropriation under
state and territorial laws would be in direct con-
that sacred American dish, hash They have not
been content to quit, to strike and leave the ship,
but they have seen fit as-well to 'abuse an article of
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diet that has heretofore been almost as much rever
enced as old glory itself. Their attitude in this partic
ular respect, will get for them mighty little public
sympathy, for there is no American citizen who has
the right, under the constitution or otherwise, to
speak ill of hash. '
Christopher Columbus discovered America, but,
compared with the man (!) who discovered hash,r
he was a rank lobster. It will be perceived that Co
lumbus could be referred to as a lobster only under
very great provocation. Should he rise from his
- grave and seek to overshadow in importance the
person who discovered hash, he would be cried down
i it. a : i- " i.. i i l j
uy me Ajueneau. peopie as uiuugu av mm uuirageu coucern cm
- the flag. The discovery of America was n great and
crowning stunt, but it took some one of greater re
sources than an Italian to discover hash. With all
due credit to our departed friend Columbus, his ac
complishment sinks into insignificance compared
with that of the person who added hash to the list
of great culinary achievements. . " '
We all of us. entertain the kindliest of feeling
for the father of his country.. He took us awav
from England and made it possible for us to dis
corer Oregon and hold the ,1905 fair. But who
amongst us licks his chops when he thinks of Wash
ington ? The first president released us from bond
age and all that sort of thing, but we couldn't eat
him. Hash is greater than Washington ever dared
be and we're not belittling Washington, either,
when we say so. ,
We might go on and compare all our great inen
Jackson, Lincoln, McKinley, C. J. Curtis and all
the rest with hash; but it would only be waste of
mt. iampoeu auvises, nevenneiess, inai ine lanu
be withdrawn, so that the rights of the United States
as proprietor of the land moy lie protected so far
as the reservation of land will protect and preserve
such rights. ,
THE ASTORIA 1904 DIRECTORY.
The interests of 'the Astorian Publishing Com
pany in the directory business have been transfer
red to the R. L." Polk Company. While it is true
that the local company was first to commence work
on a directory this year, it is also true that the R.
L. Polk Company has no suierior in the business
in which it is engaged all over the United States,
and that it is better equipped by reason of long
experience to accomplish .perfect results than any
words. None compares with hash. Men grow old
and feeble, but who ever heard "of feeble hash?
Eventually they peter out and die, but hash sur
vives. None is too young uor none too old to par
take of it. Of what other article of diet can this
be truthfully said Mush, you sav! But what's
mush? merely crushed oats or mangled wheat, a
poor, shriveling dish with which everybody's famil
iar, 'absolutely lacking in those mysteries so essen
tial to greatness. Hash stands out in bold relief on
our national horizon like a Japanese battleship on
the Yellow sea, and all else pales beside it.
For a century or more none has dared traduce
hash, yet away off in this remote corner of the globe
41 men, with shocking lese majeste, have had the
temerity to quit their jobs because of the quantities
with which they have been provided at their meals,
We had hash tor breakfast for seven days," they
whimper "for seven consecutive days." "Too
much hash!" What a paradox ! There are millions
of persons in this old world, but who ever before
heard of too much hash? It's ridiculous; there's
no such thing as too much hash. Every man with
an ounce of brains fecLs toward hash as he feels
toward money the more he gets the more he wants.
' Those men from the Chinook may offer the hash
complaint in explanation of their action, .but we
don t Relieve it. There must be something else be
hind this strike, for too much hash is an impossibility.
"While it would have been a matter of pride to
have published a creditable directory, yet we are
assured that the work now being compiled by the
R, L. Polk Company will be a volume of which its
patrons and the city may well be proud.
The Astorian Publishing Company is grateful
for the liberal patronage offered, and for the manyj
expressions of loyalty to the home institution which
haVe been made, and, while making a retiring bow,
begs to recommend the directory company to the
good graces of the public. ' "
The compiling, editing, printing and binding of
a work of this nature is an undertaking of much
greater magnitude than most people imagine, and
as all the work is being done and will lie done in
this city, it will be in reality an Astoria directory.
Meanwhile The Astorian will continue to be the
newsiest nevspaer outside of Portland published
in the state, and its production demands nil the
energies of its. force.
Perhaps it was to be expected that the 'French
cabinent would be astonished, even pained, over the
great lack of politeness on the part of Japan in
striking a deadly blow without first giving notice of
her intention. But apart from Franee the opinion
of the world is with Japan in carrying on war ac
cording to the rules of war, and not according to the
latest rules on etiquette. Japan saw Tier opportunity
and empraced it. She caught Admiral Alexietf
napping, and if his rousing from slumbers was pain
fully strenuous, the fault is, or was, his own. It
was his business to know that war is just what Gen
eral Sherman described it to be in only three terse
words, but expressive of the whole subject. '
UNIFORM WATER LAWS.
An interesting instance of the wav in which the
operations of the reclamation service may assist in
securing uniform state laws is contained in the fact
that Governor Chamberlain has recently appointed
a commission to draft a bill which will modify the
existing water laws of this state in such a way as
to make .them harmonize with the provisions of the
lwlnmation act
Need for similar revision of water laws is felt in
other states, and it is hoped that Oregon's example
will be followed in all the states affected by the r
reclamation act. That such revision would simplify
the problems of the recdamation service is a fact
accentuated by an opinion recently delivered by
Mr. Fred Campbell, assistant attorney general, con-
The Portland Journal is in error in accusing the
Oregonian of stealing President Cleveland's article
from the Saturday Evening Post. The article was
sent out by the Associated Press from Philadelphia
and was received over the wires by The Astorian
as well as by the Oregonian and all other Associated
Press newspapers. The Journal has made a bad
guess.
The annual number of the West Coast and Pnget
Sound Lumberman is just out. It is complete in
every detail and its , advertising columns denote
that it is appreciated by the lumbering interests of
the east as well as of the coast. It is a most credit
able. edition and its publisher, Frank B. Cole, is
deserving of commendation.
Now that we can read about a real war, the ac
count of the proceedings of the St. Louis convention
will not be as interesting.
Bourke Cockran begins his second jwlitical career
by calling Uncle Sam "the hoodlum of nations."
'.
Mr. Gaines did not tell how long it took to count
those 13,000,0(X) microbes on that dollar bill. .
Russia should hurry to get in her Avar loan be
fore Japan does any more work.
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