THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TRANSPORTATION. The "K" Line Conditions Justify Some Increases In Freight Rates. PASSENGERS FREIGHT Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. QTtlEEl'S j SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrie', per month .$7.00 .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $1-50 Entered aa second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. k&M&&A$t I ,the:weather Oregon Fair, not so warm in the interior west portion. Washington Fair, probably slight ly cooler. Idaho Fair and continued warm. PERSONAL CONCERN NEEDED. What is needed here, as well as elsewhere, is more personal interest, individual concern, in public matters, especially with regard to street work. There is no use saying "it is none of jped for the correct, adequate our business'; it is altogether our business. It is public money that is being spent and public interest be ing served, and we are the Public. There are excellent people in charge of these things, but the best of them grow careless, at times, high, and low; those who ordain things and those who do them as they are ordained, or as nearly as they can or will; and whatever to support them and make every time the private citizen butts! them something more than cheap and SPECIALIZED AND MINIMIZED. City, after city, all over the United Slates, is abandoning the. old ami cumbersome councilmanic system of government that for years has, in nearly every instance, demonstrated its aptitude for graft and inerticacy, and is taking on the newer, safer, more direct, and centralized, scheme of departmental commissions, where by each element of municipal admin istration is given into the hands of a small group of men, especially emiip- and economic handling of that separate interest, elected, paid, bonded, and held accountable, first and last, for the honest dispensing of the public trust confided to them. The curse of the old vogue is the almost universal absence of all pay and emolument; the rule that thrusts honors upon a man without anything By MARTl A. KNAPP, Chntrmna InurttnU Commrc CommUnlmi. 1 J in to have something amended he does a distinct favor and service to his fellow-taxpayer. It is not always ; pleasant, of course, but it is timely, essential, public-spirited, and it pays. SPRINGFIELDS CONTRIBUTION Springfield, the place that holds the sacred bones of our own Lin coln; the place, of all others in these United States, that should have known what to do, and where to stop, in the crisis that has swept her, has "outHeroded Herod" in her demonstration of mob-law and com munal vengeance. Down South, where these things are more frequent, and where we di rect our especial anathema and hot criticism, they have the deeency to trail their guns and go home after they have killed the unnameable beast that invites their vengance; but Springfield, probably being new to the cult, goes on for days with the exercise of its senseless reprisals, and half the -military strength of the State is invoked to subdue the people who started out to subdue and for got to quit. White, or black, the man guilty of and restore them to her, expanded, fictitious dignities. To this we owe the threadbare respect now attaching to the municipal ofhcial quality, at least so far as the councils are con cerned. And, in many a case, their faces are saved by the courage, .-.kill and honesty of some well paid officer who intervenes at the propitious mo ment ot doubt, hazard or worse crisis. Portland is looking to the change and studying it carefully with a view to putting it in practical use, and husbanding the wealth and attributes of the city, instead, of frittering them away through reckless and shameful channels ot divided authority, per sonal ineptitude, multiple functions stupidity, inefficiency, indifference, and deliberate theft, the latter-day es sentials of the municipal administra tive code. Uf course, Astoria has none ot these disagreeable things to worry about, but, all the same, it will pay her (to save her acknowledged im mtinity), to take up the issue and never lay it down until she has put her civic responsibilities in hands, non-political hands, that will special ize, minimize, conserve, administer. what the wretch at .Springfield was guilty, should die quickly (legally, if possible), in order that society and its dearest charge, the young woman hood of the land, may be the safer by that death, and this having been wrought, those who have assumed to execute the law, written, or unwrit ten, have no call to go farther and expend their accumulated rage and Her jolly hand is full of glorious righteous wrath on all the suspects j sunshine, cool ocean breezes, warm improved, with public costs invari ably reduced. Look it up, Gentlemen of the Electorate! OUR GLAD HAND OUT! Astoria has her glad hand out! It is her especial season for the demonstration, her Regatta season! of the community. There is a good deal in knowing where to begin, and where to stop! OREGON'S OWN, AND BEST. hospitality, endless entertainments, magnificent scenery delightfully di vided between land and water scapes; flyless days and mosquitoless sleepful nights; all the home-comforts, and the charms of a resort season special ized and accentuated; rational rates, and plenty of time for everthing! There may be fuller hands than this Besides the large exhibit that the Oregon Agricultural College will make at the Oregon State Fair at Salem, September 14-19, next, the, kicking out from favored localities officers of that institution have ar- over Oregon, but none friendlier; ranged to give the fair visitors some tnat) we'll swear to. special entertainment each day. Each The three-day regatta season fits in afternoon the commodious auditorium admirably just between the carking adjoining the main pavilion will be Uurri,ner j-,eat of the interior and the darkened and from its platform dif- j royal fall weather of the coast, than ferent members of the faculty will wj,k-h there is nothing more perfect give lecture" illustrated by stereopti- jn tlc way 0f temperature and tern con views pertaining to their respec- peramcntal requisites; ideal condi- tive departments at the college, all ot tions amplified by enjoyable pro which have a bearing on the agricul tural industries of the state. Friday, the fifth day of the fair, has been set aside as "Agricultural College" day and special efforts will be made to have this the most important occa sion of the entire week. The Oregon Agricultural College has the reputa tion of being one of the leading edu cational institutions on the Pacific Coast and its participation in the pro gram of the fair shows that its presi dent and his co-workers fully appre ciate that the fair is a worthy cause which has been a great factor in the state's development. -Sl!ij'IlFICATI()X for increase in freight rates, if there f mm 4 ' it . !it..W,..icrt )m fmiml if nt nil rml v in tho fact that ium-nse-d cost of operation and mainte nance of railroad's lias renched a point where reason able profit on money invested in them is not possiblo from tho revenue they now receive. The country does not stand still. Each year marks nn increase in effort and output and therefore an increased demand for transportation facilities. If tho highest point of capacity was reached, then it stands to reason that to meet tho increased demand for tho years that follow thero must bo an increase in those facilities eommen.su rato at least with j the demand for them. To provide new facilities takes money. IN ORDER TO INVITE THE INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL A RAIL ROAD MUST BE ABLE TO SHOW THAT IT8 REVENUES PAY COST3 OF OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, COSTS OF NEW FACILITIES AS NEEDED AND A FAIR CERTAIN PROFIT ON MONEY INVESTED. THE CAPITALIST IS NOT SATISFIED TO KNOW THAT IT IS POS SIBLE FOR A ROAD TO DO THIS. HE MUST 3E ASSURED THAT IT IS CERTAIN TO DO IT AT ALL TIMES. ' Wages have been increased a number of times by the railroads in recent years, while FEEIGIIT KATKS HAVE PRACTICALLY REMAINED UNCHANGED. Tho cost of operation and mainte nance of a railroad approximately, as last year, is 70 per cent of its gross receipts. Out of this 70 per cent about two-thirds it paid in wages. Now, it stands to reason that if wages arc increased 6 to 10 per cent thero is a big increase in tho cost of maintenance and opera tion of the road. ' In just the degreo that this cost is increased is lessened the opportunity of the road to provido new facilities and to bring the old facilities np to a fixed satisfactory standard. IT IS A MATTER OF PUBLIC INTEREST, FIRST, THAT OOOO WAGES BE PAID RAILROAD EMPLOYEES! SECOND, THAT PRES ENT TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES BE KEPT UP TO A SATISFAC TORY STANDARD AND, THIRD, THAT NEW FACILITIES BE PRO VIDED TO MEET THE EVER INCREASING DEMAND FOR THEM. Inasmuch as the cost of wages has been raised considerably in many instances during the last year or so, and inasmuch as tho cost of equipment has also increased, while the rates are practically now what they were beforo these increases occurred, it is not unlikely that soiuo roads may have to increase not all, perhaps, but Bomo their freight rates. i jpfn mm Steamer Lurline Night Boat for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Astoria dally except Sunday at 7 p. m. Leaves Portland Dally Except Sunday at 7 a. m. aollOR. (liyiiumu fnliit nnun and r. 1 hlbiU an abnormal deposition to Quitk Servlce Excellent Meala Bleep; dislikes the aocioty of other' Good Bertha girls j then tho mother should come ! to her aid promptly, for ahe pos-; Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf esses information of vital Import- Landing Portland Foot T.vW t tnce to the young daughter. ' wnoing Portland Foot Taylor St. At such a time the srreatest aid to mmm nature is Lydia K. llnkham'sVege- J- J- DAY- An table Comjxmnd. 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Tammany will select the Demo cratic candidate for governor of New York this year and the Republicans fif the state will renominate llnolii-s .,. , , - , . . Ifor the American Athletes to appeal with the approval of independent , . . , . 11 IOI I MK I IV.. Ill Illll'S illll-I IMMCIIUU 1111- SPORTING CODE NEXT. LONDON', AugugM 17.-Theodorc Cook, a member of the British Olym pic council, has sent a long communi cation to the newspapers of London, stating that as the criticisms from Americans on the four hundred me tres race at the Olvmnic names an pear to be based on an ignorance oi tacts, he has deemed it advisable to give the exact facts on which the dc-ci-ion was based. He then gives the statements of the various officials of the American Athletic Association who acted as starters, umpires, etc., and the evidence presented at the in quiry after the race showing that all starters in the race were warned at the start that watchers had been plac ed around the track and that any wil ful jostling would result in the race being declared void. Mr. Cook, com menting on this official view, says; "The only question that can be rais ed is whether the Olympic games should have been held under American or l.'.nglish rules. It was not open voters. Tammany s prospect of cap turing Albany in 1908 is poor. London papers are discussing the comparative merits of American and English orators. Has England any master of eloquence who can elicit a yell an hour and a half long, at a distance of several hundred miles, lifter he has been licked twice? grams, day and night, and the glad hand of Astoria over it all, to smooth and soften and make all COFFEE Why Schilling's Best? 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Commenting on Mr. Cook's .state ment, Sporting Life insists that it is necessary to compile fur future Olym pics a complete detailed code of reg ulations covering every branch of sports after consulting all constitu ent countries that are to send conten ders, fn stating many points where the rules failed and where they could be improved or modified, Sporting Life urges the British Olympic conn cil to initiate a movement for inter national rules by frank and free dis cussion with foreign committees and with an absence of desire to press the English rules on foreigners, Miss Ellen M. Olson, of 417 North Eaat Street, Kevaneo,IlL,lnak)ttcr to Mrs. 1 'ink hum nays: " Lydia K. rinkhatu'a VejreUMa Com pound cured me of Imckftche, lleachc, and t-Rtnbllt.hcd niv periods after the bent physician In Kcwunve hud failed to help mc, unvlng that an operation wan iiccf&sary. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. 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