The Oregon daily journal., May 21, 1909, Page 8, Image 8

wmmkw of wmxmm iiMS
?THE JOURNAL
t
4.
AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
M. JACKSON ...
. . PablUher
irnb!lshrl rrrrj efninit (except Sunday) ami
i Tfy Bandar moruine it The Journal Bul'J-
log Ftfti aod Yurahill strwta. Portland. Or.
Entered t the pn.iofflo at Portland. Or., for
W triBimiiuluu throufcb tho malla s srcond-ciasa
3 TELEPHONES MAIN 7173. HOME. A-WW1.
Tv All department re.uuiMl l,y ih.tf mirobera.
-" Tell the operator the dep-rtim-ut .too want.
.jFORElO.V AnVEKTlSlNU BKI'ltESKSTATIVE.
'Benjamin & Kentnor Co.. nrnnfrf1- RulMlng.
f 225 Fifth UTenue. New York; 1007 -OS I'ojce
Building. Chicago.
Tha Journal 1 on flip In London. England.
Vt the office of The Journals Knillsti rpp-
tentative. K. 1. Hardy & Co.. 30 Fleet
' I tret. There iitiscrlptiutu ud adTcrtlsementa
, Hill be recelred.
t .,
- Siibacrlptton Termn br mail or to any artdrem
la tne 'United Klutr-;. ( aiuaa or eu.
.
I. '
J One year.
One year.
On year.
IAH- X.
$n.0() ! One monih
Sl'NP Y,
f2 60 I One month
DAILY AND SUNnAV.
. .50
. .25
.......17.50 One month S .63
H
Subtract from a great man
all lie owes to opportunity,
and all that he owes to
chance, all that he has gained
by the wisdom of his friend9,
and by the follies of. his en
emies, and our Brobdingnag
will become a Lilliputian. I
think it is Voltaire who ob
serves that it. waB very for
tunate for Cromwell that he
appeared on the stage at the
precise moment when the
people were tired of kings;
and as unfortunate for his
son Richard that he had to
make good his pretensions
at a moment when the people
were equally tired of pro
tectors. Colton.
'
GETTIXG TOGETHER
t
(HERB WAS flow of soul and
warmth of blood at last night's
gathering at the Commercial
club. Portland business men
who recently ewotigHr0Tind The
' ; circle in Washington spoke in a gen
erous language of their northern
-, neighbors. If there was rivalry
fwith the business men of the north
it was the chivalrous, broadminded
. and generous rivalry of gentlemen
with gentlemen, and neighbors with
'neighbors. The spirit of interstate
fraternity was universally expressed,
'and with an emphasis horn of sin
cerity. The sequel to the mingling
iot Portland? with Washlngtonians
I is a dawning day of interstate unity
and a continued harmonious rela
tion infinitely beneficial to the so
ciarand material welfare of both.
. The story of man is a story of the
peace and unity that association be
gets. The Isolated primitive man
: was at war with every living creat
"ure until he fashioned a language
and began communication with oth
ers. Then he formed little groups
that through the influence of asso
ciation expanded into races. The
..early American Indians, shut in by
mountain ranges or other natural
barriers, were grouped into, small
tribes, each in perpetual war with
the other. Their sole,comraun.ica
'tlon with other tribes was with the
war whoop and scalping knife. The
'lack of a social relation was the in
spiration for intertribal wars and the
reign of the bow and arrow. There
.-was no peace because without inter
tribal association concord was im-
possible and feudism inevitable. In
the process of time an intertribal
language was fashioned; there was
Intertribal communication: the mo
tives and purposes of each baud were
better understood and even the un
tutored savage yielded to the soften
ing influence of association until a
nearer approach to peace was real
ized. Man is a gregarious animal, and
1o be at his best and broadest must
mix with his fellows. The uncial re
lation knits ties that the rivalries of
commercialism cannot sever. The
law that delivered the savage from
the intertrihal scalping knife ce
ments civilized nun together. We
get together as w know each other
better. The Ket-tnjrether spirit new
drawing Oregon am Wa-hliii;tori
commercial interests into harmony
as a result of the recent excursion,
evidences the effect of interst at u as
sociation, and it is well.
GIVE THE ROSES FIT SKTTINt;
IS PORTEAM' to l,o an;.y.d In
attire befitting the oca. -.ion?
Will the resid.-c-es. Iiitsitifss
houses and public ltiiklinps of
the city be so decorated as to frrni
a 'proper setting for the Rose Fes
tival? There will he a pageant of
'floats, roses, allegorical reprs-n a
. tlons and marching school children
that in beauty will transcend anv
tbing yet seen on the coast. For the
picture is there to be a frame of liare
buildings, bleak walls and inhar-
tnony? Is not the frame
a great ;
factor In the picture? How marred
' are the beauty lines on the canvas
If the edges are unfinished, the cor
r tiers ragged and the frame rude?
-It Is harmony that makes beauty.
Nature recognizes It and gives the
, rosebufr 'lt settiflg of green leaves
Jand graceful branch. Man recognizes
It. and the frame always matches
i the portrait. Will Portland draw in
i its streets a matchless painting and
Igive It an "unfit', setting? Will lit
execute a great ; beauty conception
and k.ave ft imperfect by refusing to
nviron it with phases and features
to harmoniie? . v
t It Is estimated that 200,000 peo
t l come" to the Ctryof Roses
JUDGE
r
T IS apparent that Mr. Simon is
to be the beneficiary of a di
vided opposition. The effort for
his defeat has to be made in dis
organization and by three leaders in
widely separated camps. The revolt
against him is .widespread and" the
demand for his defeat clamorous,
but the elements of this revolt can
not find a common road to travel.
It is not necessary to repeat here
The Journal's view of such a con
test. It is sufficient to say that a
prompt and effective coalition of the
forces opposed to Simon would hurl
him into a defeat from which pri
mary law haters would never resur
rect him.
In this contest The Journal will
unhesitatingly support Judge Munly.
He is the fair nominee of the pri
maries. He is by vote of the people
in the primaries the officially named
opponent of Mr. Simon. The cre
dentials of his candidacy are undis
puted, because they have the sanc
tion of- the law and the ballot box.
The right of the Independent candi
dates to run is not for one moment
questioned. Their candidacies like
wise arq within the purview of the
law. But, in the case of Judge
Munly, there is the regular and or
derly vote In the primaries, the
count of the ballot and the an
nouncement of the result.
What party affiliation Judge Mun
ly maintains is of absolutely no con
sequence to anybody. This Is a con
test In which a party label is the last
to see the rose spectacle. A group
of newspaper men is coming from
Chicago to tell to eastern readers the
story of Portland and the Rose Fes
tival. Shall the tale be told with
one of Its most necessary features
omitted? From every state In the
union visitors are expected. In
every state the . festival is talked
about and lauded, as we talk about
New Orleans and the Mardl Gras. It
is one of the notable festal occasions
in the United States. It is an occa
sion, that no other state can dupli
catebecause It cannot produce the
roses. - It Is a character of occasion
in the esthetic phase of life it ac
centuates, that cultured and emi
nent people the country over ap
prove and will patronize, and that
ought to be perpetuated and ex
panded. It is one of the lines on
which to bud for Portland's ex
pansion and glorification. It is
Portland's opportunity, and from
every viewpoint, not one feature
should be omitted that would add to
its perfect harmony. Such is the
sentiment of the Portland Retail
Merchants' association, which has
unanimously declared for decoration
of residences, business houses and
public buildings. It is the view of
all who have given the subject
proper consideration. It is senti
ment that ought to be crystallized
into a pronounced movement, joined
in by every individual and every or
ganization. It is worth the effort
and In the added success it will add
to the occasion, will .be bread upon
the waters that will return an hun
dred fold.
PROTECTION AXO THE REPUB
LICAN' PARTI"
T
HE ASTONISHING farce with
some elements of tragedy in it
goes on in the senate. A
noted and in many respects, an
admirable newspaper, the Philadel
phia North American, in the course
of a long editorial, says:
There is In Washington a Republican
president, a Republican majority in the
senate, a Republican majority In the
lion.se of representatives. Are they to
unite In providing a modern instance of
the truth of the ancient maxim that
"whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad';"
Aldrh h wins the adoption of a certain
tariff schedule framed to serve no pur
pose save to provide bigger profits than
its present 20 pe.r cent dividends fur
Guggenheim's lead trust. Do not he
and Cannon and their allies See that
their Booming success Is due only to a
survival of an old subservience with
which the country has lost patience?
Do they think that the protests from
Republican senators are merely the out
bursts of Impulsive young demagogues
seeking notoriety and local applause'.' Do
they think that Burkett was' speaking
nlv to soothe Nebraska when he said,
The country Is watching this bill. Ben
ito: may think the people are not
wutcMng It. Dot you cannot fool them
on these seh'-dules."
They seem indeed to be ''mad," to
he making the rope that will strangle
the "Craud Old Party" to death.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota in the
'nurse of a speech last week said:
It would be a ridiculous performance
tor iiv to tome here and reaffirm the
Dirgiev law. ... what wo are
now doing Is a mere farce, mere boy's
play if I thought there was not a re-
and home f.,'r n-, ,
a senator does not re. mire that I should
sta here and participate In a farce.'
The people, our platform, our speeches
and the speeches of President Taft con
tallied no suirestlon of a revision up
ward, and no sophistry can make it ap
pear otherwise.
It may be In your power to act con
trary to the wishes of the people, but so
sure as you do that two years from now
this tariff will be revise!, not by the
friends of protection, but by the enemies
of protection.
Here Is a man who dares to !'tell
the truth and shame the devil."
Dolllver, Cummins, Bristow, Bever
idge and others are laying similar
truths. The tariff should be re
vised by Its "enemies" not its
"friends." Would a burglar prop
MUNLY
thing in the world to be considered.
Something more vital than . mere,
party or mere man is involved. The
issue Is Slmonlsm, and Simonism, as
this city, county and stfte know to
their sorrow, is something from
which to flee as from contagion.
Judge Munly Is the complete anti
thesis of Simonism. His moral
standard is beyond suspicion or chal
lenge. His mental horizon Is broad
and comprehensive. His record as
a lawyer, a jurist and a citizen is
above reproach. Ills business and
social relation are such as would
quadrate with the office. He has" the
caliber and polish to adorn the may
oralty of Portland, no matter what
the public function or what the ad
ministrative exigency he might be
called upon to face. He Is a citizen
with a largeness of vision that would
comprehend Portland in Its every re
lation to its own people, and Port
land in her relations with other
cities, with Oregon and with the
world.
But, above all and best of all, he
is a loyal adherent and able expo
nent of the primary law in Its en
tirety, and that is the issue that ap
peals compellingly to this people at
this moment when the security and
survival of that law are menaced.
Any and every citizen of Portland
who shall become a supporter of
Judge Munly can look the world full
jn the face and have no occasion to
blush for the company he keeps.
erly reform the law against robbery?
There must be taxation, of course;
revenue must be obtained; but "pro
tection" is a synonym for graft, rob
bery and governmental iniquity. The
North American, alluding to Aid
rich's erplanation of his outrageous
bill, says:
And this is. the message flung by the
master of the Republican senate into
the faces of the farmers, the wage
workers, the merchantj. the clerks, the
doctors and druggists and ministers and
lawyers and the self-supporting women
of America!
No good will come of a conference
committee composed of Aldrich and
Burrows and Daliell and Payne. Nor
will good come to a party which sub
mits to the perpetration by false lead
ers of a cheat upon the country.
If Aldrich Is not reckoned with speed-ID-
In the senate there will be a day of
reckoning later at the polls, the profit
pect of which furnishes no pleasing aug
ury to the unselfish protectionists and
the sincere well wishers of the present
administration.
This is Interesting talk to be made
by a leading Republican paper to
tne leaders of its party. It. is true
stuff, too, as they will find out.
STEALING WATER POWERS
I
T WOULD be mighty interesting
to know the exact facts back of
a Washington dispatch printed
recently, wnicu announces a
disagreement between Chief Forester
Pinchot and Secretary Ballinger.
The dispatch refers briefly to the
secretary's attitude with reference to
water powers In forest reserves as
the occasion of the differences,
which are described as acute. The
secretary is reported as holding that
t here is no warrant of law for" the
policy of Pinchot and Roosevelt
with reference to water powers, and
that the vigorous defense of these
water powers from being gobbled up
by interests and syndicates is not to
be pursued by Ballinger.
Beneath all this superficial state
ment there is a possibility of "facts
of weighty concern to the American
people. It may show that influences
have arisen for overthrow of the
Pinchot policy and that the bars are
to be thrown down and the enor
mously valuable water powers of
the country are to be allowed to slip
from the hands of the people, just
as went the coal lands, the school
lands, the oil, the iron lands, the
forests and all the other items of
public heritage. If so, there should
be an awakening of the people from
limit to limit of the country, and the
saving of these water powers be de
manded, for of all the wealth stored
by nature for man's use the water
powers are the greatest. They are
a source of potential energy that will
last as long as the sun shines and
streams 'flow, that will through in
ventions constantly reduce the cost
of motive power, and that once mo
nopolized as oil, forests and iron
have been monopolized, will be an
omnipotent means of levying a con
Ftantly Increasing toll upon all the
people for the benefit of a few.
It is declared by John L. Mat
thews in Hampton's Magazine that
there is now forming In this coun
try a water power trust beside which
Standard Oil would be a puny affair.
He says that predatory corporations
are grasping at every available wa
ter site in the country without re
compense. Forty water power grab
bills are now pending in congress.
He says "a new monopoly more ter
rible than has ever threatened the
country, paying nothing, demanding
all, its members have gone into con-'
gresg and borne away perpetual !
franchises to the greatest of ouri
last remaining resources." All that
has stood between them and success
for their scheme has been the deter
mined opposition of Forester Pin
chot and President Roosevelt. The
enormous asset that these interests
are demanding is equal for potential
energy to 500,000,000 tons of coal
per year, which, expressed in dollars
is' a proposed gift to them by the
government of no less a sum thanj
.Vv":cv:'?',,Av
12, 000,000,000 per annum. It is
gift to them annually of a sum of
money equal to one twentieth of all
the wealth that France or Germany
has accumulated in alt time and one
fiftieth of all the. wealth amassed by
the United States from the day of
its settlement up to the present mo
ment. Will the people of the coun
try permit this tb,eft to go on, and
is the government at Washington, to
be a party to it? -
Running Shots
Written for Th Journal by Fred C.
Benton.
The celebrated' Spokane case seems to
be one of tneae arratrs wnere everyoooy
gets what he doesn't want, and the con
sumers pay tne costs,.
Extend your sympathies to the Brit
ish land owners, tor the tax gatherer
will be after them, to such an extent in
a few months that it will be impossible
for one of them to hold ovur a hundred
square miles out of use as a huntlns
ran ire or a sheen nasture. The lmDcria'
government Is going to assess the land
of England for the first time since 1860,
or thereabouts. The cruel necessity of
marrying American heiresses will be the
only alternative to cutting; up many
estate.
Come people would restrict and reg
ulate the recall ou,t of existence, or at
least Into paralysis. However, the Ini
tiative created the recall In Oregon, and
its creative powers are still active.
Portland may be rich and prosperous
enough to endure nearly any kind of a
mayor, but why should it take up the
load It once kicked off to Its profit and
delight?
www
The disposition of the courts of Ore
gon to stand by the rule of the people
and to liberally construe the' funda
mental provisions by which that rule is
assured, shows that the courts have
found that the will of the people has
come to stay, even if some mossbaek
journalists think we are going to be
trielitened at our own progress ana ko
back to political slavery.
Let us have the bridges, and If prop
erly constructed we will not have to
interfere with the passage of most ves
sels up and down the river.
Harriman will build a railroad to
Central Oregon. He will not. He will
build to Coos Bay. He will not. Thus
the news alternates, and thus the people
halt between hope and disgust. Oregon
producers are 'skinned enough every
year to build a railroad twice around
the state.
We are assured that the Initiative has
invaded the rights of property in Ore
gon. Bosh! The paople of Oregon have
not yet tanen any such step in any dl
rection whatever. They are provokingly
slow to even stop constant Invasions of
the right of the producers to what they
pronv.ee, ana it is tne aanger tnat tney
may wake up some day and use the bal
tot as they would any other useful
weapon placed in their hands to their
own just advancement that fills the
hearts of the grafters with fear.
e
Some working men are heard to say
that t,hey never have and never will pay
anv railroad fare. They justify this
attitude by the assertion that the rail
roads never pay living wages to their
section hands, always charge more than
-the service is worth and beat everybody
tney can. in making good on their at
titude toward the transportation com
panies they frequently yield up their
lives and otten occupy a bed In a char
ity ward, but the interstate commerce
laws have no terrors for them. . The
railroads curse them and pass them
pertorce.
The special session of eongreSs drags
Its weary way along through the farce
or revising tne tariff. Tne audience is
leaving and only the actors are blind,
King , down the curtain and call it a
frost.
Bailey was. right when he said that
imprisonment was the remedy for trust
managers a;1(i officials. However, Bai
ley is willing to give the steel trust a
little deeper grip with the tariff, and
while the doctors seem to disagree on
the proper remedy the healthy nnd lusty
patient yells for more nutriment.
The custom of officials answering In
public meetings questions concerning
their official actions has been started
in New York city. It Is likelv to spread
faster than the big hat fashion, last
longer and do more good.
m m
In nil countries there Is too much
overbearing and Ignorant supervision of
the actual postal workers. The politi
cian, grafter and relative of statesmen
In other countries than France look with
contempt on the skilled clerk or carrier
who does the work set him for low pay
while the men with pull get high sal
aries for looking wise and passing away
time.
The Primary law Will Stand.
From the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
The Portland morning paper chuckles
because It believes the election of Simon
will be a step towards the undoing of
the direct primary law. That the forces
barking Simon are opposed to the direct
primary seems plain, but even should
they succeed in electing him they will
fall In their main purpose if it Is the
overthrow of the primary law.
There are so many good features
about the direct primary and It has
wo'rked so successfully that Us over
throw will be a difficult task. The di
rect primary law has cleansed the po
litical life of Oregon In a maner that is
pleasing to the rank and file of the peo
ple. It has put political machines and
pary bosses out of business and placed
power directly In the hands of the peo
ple. It has done away, with senatorial
deadlocks. It has placed a better class
of men In public office and has caused
officials to become more watchful' of
the public Interest for the simple rea
son that officials now owe their posi
tions directly to the people and are re
sponsible to the people Instead of to po
litical leaders.
In Washington he same situation
exists. Under the direct primary law
the people of Washington have a new
United States senator of their own
choosing. He Is an afile senator and he
was elected without a long drawn legis
lative fight marked by the old time log
rolling, money-using methods. The state
of Washington has a strong, capable
business man for governor. He is now
cleansing the stables of the preceding
administration, that of Mead, a man
who while unknown was named for gov
ernor by a party convention dominated
by railroad influences and whose elec
tion to office the people of the Ever
green state now have good reasons to
regret. .4 '
Of course there are good, honorable
men who really doubt the efficacy of
the direct primary system. This is not
surprising because the old methods had
been used so long that many came to
regard them as necessary. But the
buik of the opposition to the direct pri
mary law comes from disgruntled poll,
ticians. Their motive In opposing the
system' Is plain- and the direct primary
law will- stand In spite of their Oppo
sition. , . ' .
Myrtle Point Knterprlse: May came
la with a temperature of IS irt Kansas
and Nebraska, That 1s as cold as the
weather got In Coos coonty at any time
during the winter. . Yet there are people
who will continue to live In Kansas snd
Nebraska and Insist that' ther enioy life.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
1 Baffles baffles. " :l ' ,'
'
, "Watch the roses." ,',
We're sorry for Africa.
: Can't we forget the tariff.
Aldrich will die after a while.
-,
Jos Cannon can not live forever.
i
Jim Hill Is an optimist. Hurrah!
: . ... ....
There's wealth in hogs,' or mules.
O, wsll hav plenty of roses, all right
"Thumbs up." is the sloran Of the cam
paign.
We heard that 'Raffles went down to
Scapooose, afoot.
m
8enator Beverldee Is also amonr the
Insurgents. He has learned.
TXrlwVM mawaamah. ik.
. -...... 1 .1 W, uonuiiiiaiB, to UIQ
fairest, richest land on earth.
Soeak to 'em the Immlrrant: sav
howdy, or good morning. It costs noth
ing. There Is one thin certatn: Portland
will grow and prosper whoever Is elect
ed mayor.
Our "contemrorarv" seems to be wor
ried. Good thing-. It seems to have a
journallstlo conscience, after all.
Those horrible burdocks: their leaves
are always spreading over thousands of
reet or sidewalks in the residence districts.
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
"Joan of Arc" By
(Delivered May 8,- 1899, In the ca -
thedral at Orleans, France, during the
celebration In honor of Joan of Arc, the
Maid of Orleans, born at Domremy.
January 18, 1412).
There are on the pages of humanity's
story glories so sublime that all peo
ples see them; Inspirations so potent
that all peoples thrill from them. Such
are the glories, ' Jeanne d'Arc, of thy
deeds; such the inspirations of thy vir
tues. Thou belongest, first, indeed, to
France; but thou belongest,, also, to hu
manity; and wherever celebration Is
made in thy honor citizens of all coun
tries may, without offense, be present
and unite with the people of thy own
land In offering to thee the tribute of
reverence and of love.
From afar, Jeanne d'Arc, from distant
America, I come to speak thy praises,
to speak the praises of thy France.
Jeanne d'Arc, I salute thee; France, I
salute thee.
The question was put to Jeanne by
the theologians of Poitiers: "Jeanne,
vu ask that soldiers be given" you,
and you say at the same time that It
is God's pleasure to drive the English
from the kingdom of France. If Biich
is God's pleasure, you do not need sol
diers, for alone God can defeat the Eng
lish and make them return to their
country." Jeanne answered: "In God's
name soldiers will do the fighting and
God will give the victory."
Jeanne's maxim was, "Let us work
and God will work." When, victory
was to be gained, this was her conduct:
"I said to my soldiers, 'Go, braves,
Into the ranks of the English,' and I
went myself."
Christians, be ours the maxim, the
conduct' of Jeanne. Work for country
and for church, work energetically and
perseveringly. work When others work
with you, when you are alone, work
as God desires. Where there Is no
work, there Is no life: where there Is
not life, there is death. As each one
Plan to Tax Billboards.
From the Seattle Post-Intelllgencer.
The billboard easily becomes a
nuisance. In most cities thera re no
limit to its size and its location Is any
where that human Ingenuity may reach
Sometimes a competition springs up for
the most conspicuous places, and the
billposter is yet to be found who allows
respect for the landscape 'or civic pride
to Interfere with his business.
Occasionally he goes entirely too far
and offends something besides good
taste. Then the value of the advertise
Ing la questionable. In Boston, several
years ago, an enterprising billposter
erected an enormous frame on top of a
building where It would dominate one
of the historic churches. Public senti
ment was so deeply stirred hat a com
pany which had bought the space can
celed the contract at its own loss and
no one else dared to advertise there.
This and other similar experiences
probably account for the bills before the
Massachusetts legislature providing a
tax on billboards. Two methods are
proposed. On fixes an excise tax of 10
cents a square foot on all outdoor ad
vertisements!' displayed for more than
seven consecutive days when the ad
vertisements do not pertain to the place
or property upon which they are lo
cated. The tax would be paid to the
state and the highway commission would
grant licenses for billboards, etc.
The other plan is to , tax. Diiinoaros
like real estate, basing the tax on their
advertising value. There would be spe
cial assesment commissions with "au
thority to regulate and control tha dls-1
play of any or all outdoor advertising as
public safety, morals or decent appear
ance may require."
A bill is before congress to levy a
federal tax on billboards used to adver
tise articles of Interstate commerce at
the rate of 2 cents a foot.
Seattle -and Tacoma ars taking steps
to get rid of some of the most offensive
advertisements, in preparation for the
throngs that will visit the sound during
the exposition season.
This Date in History.
1780 Johnstown. N. Y burned
by
the Tories. .
1782 General wayne aereatea by tne
British near Savannah.
1813 rltisn atiacKea eacaen n ar
bor.
1K22 First so-called Democratic con
vention met in Baltimore and nominated
Andrew Jackson for President.
1855 Shin canal completed arouna tne
falls of St. Mary's river. Michigan.
1861 Tennessee seceeea rrom tne
union. ......
1874 Marriage or jveuie urant- ana
Algernon Sartorls took place la the
White 'House.
1M4 flusnenslon bridee' across the
Ohio river at Portsmouth "fell.
1890 House of representatives, passed
the McKinley tariff bill. '
1895 Kxplosion of nitroglycerin in
Pinole, Cal. killed 14 tnert. J
lS9g The monitor Monterey ordered
to Manila to reen force Admiral Dewey.
1903 Cornerstone laid at Portland,
Or., for a monument to Lewis and
Clark. ,
The Serene Scorcher.
From the Washington Star.
"S that policeman held you up
again?' -
"Yes," answered Mr. Chuggtns, - "I
think it's a case rf professional Jeal
ousy. He's annoyed because mr auto
mobile can go faster than his bttcle."
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Albany Democrat: Portland -will have
35 things to vote on In June. Bet an
other asylum has to bo built in Balenu
The Harney Valley Jfews, Frank
Davey hold of the kevs, says: "Addison
Bennett, editor of The Dalles Optimist
and Irrlgon Irrigator, philosopher, poet
and all around good writer, has been in
Burns several days, but is so afraid of
Statement No. 1 that the writer has only
met him accidentally." '
Tha Burns Times-Herald remarks:
Tne afternoon raveling to the morning
dish rag In the "big tower at Portland
has broken Us long sphinx-like silence
and lias given central and eastern Ore
gon a good editorial writeup. What
prompted 'it is hard to tell, unless the
merger lnoulry made Its abject stupidity
so apparent that it had to wake up and.
get Into the processiorj
.
La Grande Star: William Hall, a
prominent Mount Park fruit raiser, was
in the city yesterday forenoon with a
load of cold storage apples, which he
has been keeping on his farm waiting
for the high prices of tha spring season.
The apples seemed to look good to the
frutt hungry people of La Grande, as
Mr. Hall was stopped several times be
fore arriving at his destination by per
sons wishing to-buy.
.The project to connect Corvallls with
the Alsea valley and Philomath country
by the construction ana operation or an
electrto line through Benton county has
at last taken definite shape and every
effort will be made to push It to com
pletion, - says the Gasette. An. Al
sea man states that there is the
greatest enthusiasm all ajong the pro
posed line over the project, as all the
country people feel ure that such a
road will be a wonderful factor in the
development of the cotmtry.
Arcb.bisb.op Ireland
1 works or does nothing, country and
church to a degree prosper or suffer.
Country and church: The one sym
bolizing the Interests of earth; the
other, the Interests of heaven : . country
preparing the way for church, church
blessing and ennobling country both
so beautiful and so sublime that a soul
capable of loving one must needs love
the other both from God, country
through the ordinary laws of nature,
church through an immediate dispensa
tion of divine mercy; both demanding
from us in the name of the most high,
tender affection and loyal service.
Only In aggregations of fellow-beings
do men grow Into full moral and
Intellectual stature and reach out to
the purposes of life. The aggregation
of the family Is too restricted; that
of humanity too large and too unde
fined. The country Is necessary. The
Lord directs the formations of coun
tries: geographical lines, historical
weldings of populations, similarities of
aspirations and of temper, reveal his
designs. The" country gathers Into Its
entity all that Is dearest and most valu
able to men. Instincts compel love of
country, religion commands and sancti
fies it. After love of God is love, of;
country, family and self yielding before
it their own claims. It was St, Louis
of France who marked me measure of
human affections: "God, France and
Margaret."
For my part, purified and strength
ened In my affection of country by
the enample of Jeanne d'Arc,.! go back
from Orleans to America, more Amerl
can than ever I have been, pledged,
America, with all the intensity of my
soul, to love and admire thee, my coun-
try-r-personlficatlon of liberty In au
thorlty and of authority in liberty to
battle for thy noble institutions, to la
bor until death, as citizen and as bishop.
for thy welfare and thy honor. Jeanne
d'Arc, for the good thou hast done my
American heart, I thank thee.
The Anti-Fly Movement.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
If warnings and the pleading of health
authorities count for anything this
ought to be a poor summer for the house
fly. There Is a nation-wide movement
aimed at the elimination of the pest
and, stsggering as such a task may ap
pear. It probably could reach approxi
mate accomplishment If everybody
turned in and worked in accordance with
expert direction.
But if it be too much to expect flies
to become extinct in the near future, ,1t
is well within the range of possibllltes
to prevent them from being a menace to
the extent they have been. By this time
the public has become well Informed as
to the disease-breeding qualities of the
common house fly and as to the import
ance, from a hygienic standpoint, of ar
resting fly propagation' and keeping the
pests out of doors, and especially away
from sick chambers. Disease-laden flies
carry germs from the sick to the
healthy; they ate i iotirce of danger
around the kitchens where food Is being
prepared as much as In the chamber or
the living room.
Now ts the time to prepare against the
summer fly Invasion. A few days of
hot - weather will bring the advance
swarms of the pest. Stray flies already
are In evidence and the ktiiing of every
early arrival will count considerably In
the general war plans, it being remem
bered that a single fly may bethe an
cestor of more than a million in a single
season. To keep files out of the house
as far as possible and slay the intruders
that defy defensive precautions Is a good
general rule.
Specific and simple rules for prevent
ing flies from breeding and for guard
ing against them within. doors are out
lined in a buleltln Just Issued by the
Chicago health department. Observance
of thees rules places It within the power
of all householders to perfbrm an im
portant service for the community as
well as to safeguard their own families
from the diseases spread by the pest.
Moses E. Clapp's Birthday.
Moses H. Clapp. United States sena
tor from ' Minnesota, was born May 2!.
1851, in Delphi, Ind. In 1857 his parents
removed to Hudson. Wis., and after a
vommon school education young Clapp
Graduated from the ,1a w school of the
nlversity of Wisconsin in 1873. In
1878 Senator Clapp was elected county
attorney of St Croix county. Wis. Three
years later he removed to Fergus Falls,
Minn., and in 1891 he took' up his resi
dence In St. Paul, where he soon es
tablished a reputation as one of the
leading lawyers of Minnesota. He was
made attorney general of Minnesota in
1887 and serveo; three terms. He was
first elected to the United States sen-!
ate in to nil tne vacancy caused
by the death of Senator Cushman K.
Davis. Jn 1905 he was reelected for
the full term of six years. ,
, The Mourner. .
From the Home Herald. -The
minister bad just been giving
the class a lesson on the prodigal son.
At the finish, to test what attention
had bean paid to his preaching, he
asked: "Who was sorry that tha prodi
gal had returned T The most forward
youngster In' the class- breathlessly
answered: "Te fatted calf'" f
The First National bank of Vale has
deposits amounting to $350,000.
1h REALM
FEMININE,
Educating Our Girls ' ' .
c
ERTAIN critics of modern educa
tion and wo are pretty much all
'at-us that now-a-days -prof est
to be much aisturbed because our
girls are being educated like our
boys, without making allowance for the
different phases of life which each will
have to meet They say that the
womanly knowledge that is of supremo
importance In maEing healthy ami well
??fcd Cmir?" tor .th vofla and the
training in the .useful domestic arts
Lt en,tlr,y neglected 1ft most of our
oSdYnaify' nd bft
And thne same critics feel that there
S!vat waste of mental force In
compel Ung girls to learn many things
for which, they will have milinmedlaL
una in order merely to attain credits
and to . '-'pass" with honors, while the
world so greatly needs attention given
ru.Fi)Odv.ntJ0k,:r3: and PJPrly educating
""children in com f og table homes.
There is nothing particularly new in
this outcry. It has been a steady accompaniment-
to the ever broadening
opportunities for. women In matters edu
cational, and it is likely that not un
til our whole System of education shall
have been refitted to the needs of hu
manity will the disparity cease to be
felt between what peopKe'learn at school
and what they need to know to be suc
cessful citizens.
VM. .i I- i ..
mis ib a targe question and one
which it is difficult to get perspective
enough to settle. By perspective may
be understood the seeing of results as
detached from our individual Interests,
the grouping of relations and the very
necessary elimination of the things
that are inessential.
But Is It by any means certain that
the swinging back of the pendulum to
the feminism in education that pre
vailed In the days of our- great-grandmothers
would be the Improvement for
which we are looking?
In the good old days when women
were highly educated In needlework,
cooking., and other phases ofhome mak
ing, when their education xwus most
closely related to the direct duties
which filled every woman's days In that
age, when the domestic and. feminine
In woman's life was at its greatest
exaltation, was the time when women
were narrowest In their thought most
petty in their Interests, least fitted to
be real companions to their husbands
or to enter into the mature lives of
their sons.
Along with tjle stress upon their
womanly accomplishment in keeping
tidy homes for their mule relatives,
came a certain scorn in which all
womankind were held by these sann;
men for their Inability to see large
Issues, their lack of Interest in the largo
problems affecting humanity and their
satisfaction In tha ncriv mnni r.r Haiiv
"housework and small gossip.
How could it be otherwise? If any
person Is educated only for the one
lino of business in which he is to en
gage must he not of necessity renin in
in ignorance of those things outsrdu
it? The old apprentice system by which
a boy was put Into the workroom of
ills master and taught a trade, and
that alone, undoubtedly produced care'
ful craftsmen, but it Is quite clear that
to go back to that system now would
be a mistake, because of Its narrow
ing influence and its prohibition of
general mental growth.
To Insist that the public school edu
cation that is civen a irlrl should h
directed to making her an accomplished
iivuikwur aim cook, snoiuu rii ner to
bo a wife and mother. Is like trying
to fit tjie apprentice system of special
education upon the boys of today.
Women have been steadily growing
away from the housewifely idea in their
education for the past half century,
and, many critics to the contrary not
withstanding, it is unlikely that anv
serious attempt will soon be made to
force them back into those lines of
specialization.
They are steadily coming on to take
a place side by side with their sons,
husbands and brothers. In the commer
cial world. In the- scholastic realm, and
In the professions. The housewifely
specialization may have suffered bv
the advance, but if so it was because
women were so busy growing to some
thing larger that It could be allowed
to diminish without any great harm.
The sweetly feminine creature, thi
"female" of a century ago. yeho squeezed
her waist into an 18 Inch corset in or
der to look ethereal, who wore sandals
and low necked dresses because it wan
more "attractive" than to be warmly
and sensibly dressed, the fainting:, lan
guishing, milk-and-water sort of female,
whose only hope was to be courted and
married, that she might have an ob
ject In life, has gone ner sweetly, gen
tle and feminine way from the pages of
history. In her place is the college
educated young woman of today, a
sound, ruddy, healthy girl, keen brained,
broad cheted, vigorous minded.
WHen she plays basketball she does
It with a zest that would have crippled
her little- great-grandmother for half a
week. When she studies or talks or
lectures or goes In for settlement work
or takes up a profession she Aoes It
with the same kind of intelligence and
vim that a man puts Into his occupa
tions. And when she takes up the prob
lems of a household and determines to
learn them she does so in a surprisingly
short space of time nnd with a thor
oughness that Is all the greater becA.11 so
there Is a well trained brain nnd a
vigorous constitution back of the de
termination. Really there Is nothing so terrifying
in the huslnena nf hoiiHt bonnln c Tf
calls for intelligent management, econ
omy 01 materials and innor, discrimina
tion and infinite attention to detail. So
docs any other business that is worth
conducting.
But if those critics of modern edu-
ration could really look closely into th
nomes or Tnen and now would th.i
modern home suffer In the comnari-
son? It seems not.
And why It should be anv more the
business of public school teachers to
train girls for wifehood nnd mother
hood than It Is their business to train
boys for their future lot as husbands
and fathers, it is difficult to see.
Spinach With IresslnR.
lOLD spinach may be well seasoned
beaten with the yolks of two egtrs
' and a little milk, Just enough to
moisten and heated to 'boiling point.
stirring to prevent burning, then turne.l
into cups ana cooled. Served w th
French dressing or mayonnaise It make
a pleasant relish.
Silver Tkreatla
(Contribnted to The Journal by Walt Maion.
the famoua Kanaaa poet. His Droae-Doema will
be a regular feature of thla column la The
Dally Journal.)
Sing a song of long ago, now the
weary day, is done,, and the breeze Is
sighing low dirges for , the vanished
sun.; sing a song of other days, ere our
hearts were tired and old; sing tha
sweetest of old lays: "Silver Threads
Among the.Gojd." We who feebly hold
the track in the gloaming of life's
day, love the songs that take us hack
to life's springtime, far away, when
our hope had airy wing, and our hearts
were strong and hold, and at eve ra
used to aing "Silver Threads Among
tha Gold." Then our hair no silver
knw, and These eyes, that shrunken
seem, were the brightest brown or blue,
afidT old aga was but' a dream; but the
years have -taken flight. and life's
evening bells are tolled; so, my children,
sing tonlghtV'Silver Threads Among the
old." .. i . . , : -, , . . .
(Copyright. 1609, by ftk .fft
Oeorga Mttbw AdaaH.)M3lVM
- 1 '- ' ... - - (-
... ... . . V . - -