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THE MORNING ASTOKIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1008. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. ' sttrsprtption RATES. By mail, per year... ....... .....$7.' By carrier, per mown......... .00 .60 wtTPlft.V ASTORIAN. iy mail, per year, in advance.... $1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 59, iwo, at tne postomce ai Asiona, Oregon, under the act of Congress of Msrcn o, ios. tr Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence w place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any irregularity m delivery should oe im mediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair and warmer. TAKE MORE TIME1 It behooves the councilmen of As toria. and the property-owners as well, to scrutinize the text of the proposed ordinance creating the fire ' limits of the city, and the fixing the character of the construction and re pairs incident to that district. The object of the bill is, of course, excel lent and wholly commendable .and emphasizes the necessity for the exact and safe framing of the law. The district is negligible to start with; it begins at the harbor line at the foot of Seventeenth, thence to Exchange, thence to Thirteenth thence to Duane, thence to Sixth, thence to the harbor line, and east wardly to the beginning. "It should take in Franklin avenue from Seven teenth to Seventh, and thence to Duane, Sixth and the harbor line, in order to comprehend the best build ing sites on the levels and the near- levels. The rules for construction and re pair are very full and exact (though carelessly framed), and would serve a high purpose in any city that did not have a period of tranistion from piling to terra firma ahead of it; as they read they are far too exacting and will work a hardship on every owner, at least, until the city is equipped with a new datum plane and a set of com mensurate grades, and until a sea-wall or other basic program for filling the tide levels has been designed and ac cepted by the people. It is positive folly and injustice to force measure of this kind, with the basic grades of Astoria at "sixes and sev ens" as they are now, and no deter mined project, or prospect, for future handling of the great work of meet ing those grades by reducing, filling and levelling, , the legitimate,, com mercial contours, existing, and de sired. commercial facilities on the Western hemisphere and is in direct line, for the best and last exploitation of those agencies. There is nothing we will hesitate, nor balk, at, if we are once assured that this is the ultimate for which' Portland and the State are striving. Portland cannot renounce its selfish policies any quicker than we can, and .we care not where the insti gation for such a "flop" shall come from. We are out for the good of the State and, being a commercial place, with an abundant share of na tural appointments at hand, nothing appeals to us so strongly as such a project as this..' r a, Hie initial phase of it all, is, of course, ample and permanent depth of channel-way across the Columbia bar; that gained and maintained, the rest is easy. The issue is an enormous one, and must comnjand the interest of the Government in the provision of those aids to navigation that will be absolutely and economically indis . M. pensaDie, once tne gate-way of an immense commerce is thrown open to the world. HIST!!. , Give ear, oh, ye people!. The Port land Oregonian is out baldly, boldly, naked and unashamed, for 40 feet of water on the Columbia bar!. it actually is urging the imme diate employment of the dredger Chinook, or some other machine of quality and capacity, upon the bar to eke out the fine work there and achieve the good "forty feet" that mean real commerce; unlimited and abundant and paying commerce. What? All the same we are glad to have the great paper take this matter up. It has been inspiringly silent on the proposition for years past, save an occasional declaration in favor of the general improvement there. And it is so thoroughly and heartily in line with all that Astoria has been praying and preaching for all these long months (especially in the matter of the dredge) that we are quite perkef 'up over Monday's clamorous editorial in that, paper. We want two dredgers, both of the biggest and best types; one for the bar and the other for the rivers, hence to Celilo and Portland. As the Ore gonian says, the commerce of the Columbia Valley is to grow immense ly in the next five years; and that period is to be the critical era during which all things that make for its permanence and v'olumne will be applied. And nothing under the canopy of Heaven will contribute so much, and instantly, to, that great program, as forty feet of water from the bar-crest to the gate-levels of the j locks at Celilo and Oregon City. Astoria will be no loser by such a consummation; but will, rather, be come an ardent, and we hope potent, factor in the ultimate demonstration that the Columbia affords the finest ADMONITORY HUNCHES. Whenever nature does one of her spectacular and hideous "stunts," such as forest-fires, land-slides, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, man, with coward ly knowledge of his real deserts, cringes and weakens and quakes, and does the bit of thinking he should do at less suggestive moments; not' that nature has any particular aim or relation to or with him in the matter, but upon the simple hypothesis that her untoward and frightful activity so transcends his paltry and restricted place and power, that he crumples in the contrast and turns instinctively to the cleaner and. dearer things of life, by way of propitiation and in voluntary penance, as it were. This is the lesson that is yielded by the tremendous visitations such as has swept the Southland during the past few days; it is the residium of every great holocaust; and perhaps it is well those disasters come as they do. Man needs some palpable rebuke every hour of his life for the mean ness and craft and weakness that he hides beneath the frippery of civiliza tion we are prone to harp on so much. There is but little ground for exalta tion, these hard, money-governed days and the call of "first principles" such as Nature frequently and terrifically presents, may move us to the assump tion and use of some of them, to our immense advantage. Arid s ee wit ai you'll izk Vt EDITORIAL SALAD . , All the world loves a lover, and all the world laughs at a fortune- hunting and title-hunting matrimonial dicker. Read It Before You Eat It Gold has begun to travel back to Europe. The flurry in confidence is hardly entitled to a jlace among the panics. The frequency with which large dams are carried away by floods sug gests that more risks are taken in their construction than is advisable or profitable. - If Congress will drop around at the governors conference in the White Hi-use next month, it will have the privilege of hearing an extra message before it adjourns. One-fourth of the work on the Pan ama Canal is said to have been com pleted. The experts trained there in digging dirt will come in handy for future river improvement. "Where is the most lonesome place on earth?" asks somebody, and the Boston Globe remarks, "Guam must be pretty near it." Ring up Lincoln, Neb., on the evening of November 3, next. TEA If the tea is good you ask for' a second cup; if not, you ask for the money. Tour grocer returns joat money U yo don't CU Schilling Beit; w. pay him. HIGGINS & WARREN FIRE INSURANCE ELEVEN STRONG COMPANIES New up-to-date maps of Astoria and vicinity for sale, 15 cent per. Savings Bank Bldg Ground Floor . PHONE 3631. 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