THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1903
small concern when weighed against
the superlative, and initial necessity
of doing away with it completely as
an administrative feature.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
Cloudy with probably showers.
OUR PRIME POSSESSION
Harking back to the first principles
of our Republican form of govern
ment we may find plenty of causes
for justification, if not of gratulation,
upon the tendency of the day to
carry the law-making function direct
to the people; for who has a better
right to it, conception, ordinance and
administration, than the people to
whom this government belongs, first
and absolutely. Its earlier manifest
ations may be charged with crudities,
blunders and irregularities; that goes
without saying because of the new
ness of the thing; but it does not fol
low that time and experience will not
qualify the people to ultimately em
ploy their better wisdom and faculties
and devise and execute their codes as
admirably as their alleged representa-
tives have ever done in the course of
history.
We are not a nation of fools how
soever the fools may berate us!
The political leaders of the past
have not absorbed, nor cornered, the
sum of all sagacity in the matter of
human government; or, if they have,
it has never been demonstrated with
any startling and convincing effect
during the last 45 years, except along
adverse lines and preparing and per
fecting the art of grafting and in
cinching up the interests of the "In
terests" until the ringing voice of a
real President called the halt and
gave the people the auspicious mo
ment in which to swing their sign of
authority on high.
The "masters" of political logic and
the high-caste "champions" of the
people sit insecurely in their saddles
of prestige; the men to whom the
commonalty has kow-towed for the
past half century are shaken with
fear and chagrin at the appalling fact
that they are about to be deposed;
that they may counsel, but not com
mand; that the people are to gradu
ally become a law into themselves
and take over the supreme right they
have always had, constitutionally, and
have used but tentatively all these
years; that they are awakening to the
travesty of the old system and are
going in for the real thing in the way
of popular government.
Who can blame them?.
They have seen the best and great
est of their country's resources de
liberately stolen from them by the
very men they have charged with the
task of saving and protecting them;;
they have seen the limitless and heart
less spoliation of their noblest and
amplest prerogatives, at the hands of
the servants that swore to defend
and cherish them; they have come to
know the shame and bitterness of a
treachery so universal and so organi
zed, that the marvel. of the day is that
the people will take so mild a means
to right the huge and vicious wrong,
and that revolution does not show its
drastic front; they have listened to
the lying voice of trusted leaders so
long that the lure of the falsehood
has worn itself out against the wound
ed patience of a people deceived and
denied and undone!
They may flounder and fail and fall
in their new effort to take up the reins
and drive the hard bargains of na
tional and communal control with
safety and success; but the germ has
innoculated the mentality of the race
and the impulses of civic redemption
are all at wdrk in the splendid task
against the forces of greed and mal
administration; and the carpings of
self-ordained critics and erstwhile
counselors, '(political and otherwise,
shall not prevail against the new
order of things.
WHISTLES AND BELLS
Civilization, and its handmaiden,
Electricity, are eliminating the pub
lic and private whistle and bell, and
it is to the abounding health and com
fort of humanity.
City, after city, is relegating its fire
alarm bells to oblivion; its port, and
plant, whistles to disuse and silence;
school and church boards of the land
are breaking from the old, traditional
rule of the bell, and though the
wrench is very severe, very shocking,
it is gradually being accepted if only,
as an overture to the good sense of
the families that have trained them
selves to the hour, instead of to the
boomy and scream, of tthe "call".
It is well to keep in touch with the
day we live in and let the "dead past
bury its dead". Tradition is but a
matter of ethics; there is always
time to abandon and forget them;
that time comes when something
better and safer may be substituted.
The substitution of perfect method,
and silence, is one of the blessings of
modernity and is an infinite relief
from the coarse and blatant relics to
which we have adhered with such
senseless devotion.
Every howling whistle and every
clanging bell that is stilled, is a trib
ute to the ailing, sick and weary, to
the nervous invalid, the delicate babe,
the very old, the worn wage-earner;
as well as to the practical wisdom of
the day and people that have made it
possible.
It is time Astoria was taking up the
crusade and curbing some of the need
less noises that range and rage over
her hills and levels and along her
waterfront. If there is no law avail
able to check the abuses that are be
coming intolerable, then it were well
to ordain some and press them at
those points, and upon those people,
where they will do the most good.
Time, and its spokesmen, the clock
and the watch, we have with us al
ways, (including the alarm-clock) and
there is no further use for the steam
begotten and fiared-metal, reverberat
ing outrages, 'to which we have sub
mitted with a patience as infinite as it
was unnecessary.
WIPE IT OUT.
There is one phase of the municipal
melange of this city that may, most
happily, be dispensed with whenever
the people get around to the point oT
ridding themselves of useless impedi
ments, and methodizing and mimit'y
ing their administrative program and
reducing it to a business proposition,
and that is the Astoria Police Com
mission, than which there is no plain
er instance of the "fifth wheel" in this
whole section.
It was, primarily, a political crea
tion, no matter who is responsible for
its existance; it was devised and in
stituted as a means to an end and
that end has been wrought abundant
ly and to the utter discredit of the
community; it is a block and barrier
and serves no practical purpose and
yields no advantage to the people;
it is a leverage for the perpetration of
purely personal politics, and an asy
lum for political indigents that cannot
be placed elsewhere; instead of con
tributing to the real police power, and
the dignity of that department, it is
a check to the actual force and ef
fectivness of that arm of the public
service, leaving the Chief and Patrol
men but mere figure-heads and agents
of arbitrary and dictatorial authority;
it is in constant conflict with the pol
icies and power of the Common
Council and dominates invariably;
in place of aiding, coalescing, and as
sisting in the full and proper exem
plification of the police function of
the City of Astoria, it has, almost in
fallibly, been found in array against
the best expression of that element of
government; and the only thing left
to do is to wipe it out of existance
and put the police department in a
position where the Chief and his men
will be prepared to A6 their whole
duty as it is made manifest under the
laws, and not have to await the dic
tum of an interested and intcfering
agency.
What processes may be substituted
for the commission is a matter of
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
. Norwegian-Danish M. E.
Services at 11 a. m. and 8 o'clock
p. m.; NiiKlay school nt Hi a. m. U.
T. Field, pastor.
First Norw. Ev. Lutheran.
Confirmation services, Pentecost
morning at 10:30. Communion serv
ice at 8 o'clock in the evening. The
following are to be confirmed: Clara
Bangsund, Johanna Louise Nielsen,
Harriet Pauline Pcderscn, Leif Hoi
san and Jacob Jorgenscn. A cordial
invitation is extended to the public
to attend our services. Theo. P.
Xcste, pastor.
Presbyterian.
Morning worship, 11 o'clock, "The
Worth of Experience"; Sabbath
school, 12:15; Y. P. S. C. E.. 7:00;
evening worship, 8:00, "The Treaty
With Gibeonitcs." Male chorus. All
are invited. Win. S. Gilbert, pastor.
Christian Science.
Services in I. O. O. F. building,
corner Tenth and Commercial streets,
rooms 5 and 6 at 10 a. m. Subject of
the lesson sermon, "God, the Only
Cause and Creator." AH are invited.
Sunday school at 11:30. Reading room
same address, hours from 2 to 5 daily
except Sttr.day.
Grace Episcopal.
Whitsunday. Litany and sermon,
holy communion, 11 a. m.; Junior
Auxilliary service, 4 p. m.
Baptist Church.
Sunday school. 11 a. m.; morning
worship, 11 a. m. "Christ, the Be
liever's Wisdom, Righteousness, San
tification, and Redemption." Violin
solo by Miss Esther Sundquist; B. Y.
P. U. at 7 p. m.; evening worship, 8
p. m., "What Think Ye of Christ?"
Vocal solo by Wiliam Gratke. Every
body invited to attend these meeting.
Conrad L. Owen, pastor.
First Methodist
Preaching services at 11 a. m. and
8 p. m.; class meeting at 10:15 a. m.;
Sunday school, 12:15; Epworth
League, 7 p. m.; mid-week service
Wednesday at 8 p. m. A cordial in
vitation is extended to the public to
attend. C. C. Rarick, pastor.
First Lutheran.
Whitsunday, confirmation. The. ser
vice begins at 10 o'clock a. m. and in
cludes catechisation, the rites of con
firmation, and holy communion
Fourteen young persons will thus be
received into full membership of the
church. The service will be in Eng
lish and the public is cordially invited.
Evening service with holy commun
ion in Swedish at 8 o'clock. Luther
League Circle meets at 7 o'clock p. m.
Gustaf E. Rydquist, pastor.
SOUND ADVICE
Anne Steesc Richardson give9 some
pertinent advice to girls looking for
employment, in the May Woman's
Home Companion. "Tell the cm-
plyer." she says, "what you think you
can do, not what you have done at
home or in school, not why you need
the position. He wants to know
whether you can write legibly, spell
correctly, figure accurately and arc
strong enough to serve him so many
hours a day, so many days a week.
If this man has his own and his em
ployer's interests at heart he will re
gard you as he does a bolt of fine
silk on the shelves outside his office.
This sounds almost brutal. It sounds
as if you were no better than the dry
goods upon the shelf. Well, when
you get right down to facts, that em
ployer is taking just as great a chance
in hiring you, an untrained girl whom
he must train at his firm's expense, as
he is buying a bolt of silk that may
or may not find favor with firms cust
omers. If you do the work, he is
glad to pay you the money you need.
If you cannot do the work, then per
haps for a second he feels sorry for
you, but he argues that a charity or
ganization to which his firm contri
butes should look after your case. A
store, factory or office is a beehive of
industry, not a refuge for incompe
tents in distress."
COFFEE
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a grocer, one way or the
other, than coffee. He
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sell it to you) it is good
tKt makes him.
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like Schilling'! Best; we par bim
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Luukinen& Harrison I
9TH
POSTER MAIDS AT NEWARK
Aldermen Insist That Billboard Girls
Shall Have Normal Sense of Decency.
NEWARK, N. J. June 6. 1908
Poster maids in Newark must have
at least a normal sense of modesty
and decency. And their companion
of the billboards, the "heroes" who
slay the "villains" while the "heroines"
faint, must quit it.
This is the decree of Common
Council, which has appointed a com
mittee of three aldermen to act as
censors of the morals of the posters
and billboards. Thus far the com
mittee's work has been limited to
passing upon theatre advertising, but
its scope will be extended to cover all
billboard advertising as well as that
displayed in saloon and other wind
ows.
Alderman Michael 1'. Mullen, chair
man of the advertising committee,
said that his committee proposed to
act in conjunction with Council's po
lice committee, and that there was no
question of the right to censor all
public advertising with a view to bar
ring such as was objectable. In this
class he placed chorus girls clad in
raiment usually worn only in a bath
room, and also such soul-thrillers as
"Dick, the Hero," drawing a bloody
knife from the villanous villain in the
presence of the weeping girl.
"With the co-operation of the
police committee," said Alderman
Mullen, "we will see that the will of
our committee is carried into effect.
We will make conditions more strict,
and it is proposed that all advertising
concerns shall submit to us all post
ers and advertisements before they
shall be displayed."
Indorsement of the aldermnnic
committee's campaign, which is based
upon one of the methods suggested
by the American Civic Association in
its fight against billboards, was given
by the Newark Star in these words:
"There has been ample reason for
the organization of this committee
and its work. Aside from their artis
tic lack of merit, many of the poster
on Newark's billboards have been o7
a character offensive to decency and
subversive of good morals. Intelli
gent judgement upon the part of the
censors and energetic work will be a
blessing to the city."
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