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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, '.PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 13. 1910.
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Ode to Hue Wilson."
navmg secured enough he care
nothing for opposition speeches. He
yields enough to carry his main
points, as he did to Taft, Though
coldblooded as a clam, he is person
ally mildly popular In the senate. Ills
ability Is respected. He trades fair,
from a high protection standpoint.
He is always ready with counsel for
less experienced senators. His dig
nity Is not exclusive and 'repellant.
He Is not r great statesman, from
a high point of view, but he is a
very Interesting and Important fig
ure in our national affairs.
HOV.N AMI VOl'NU MKX
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AMUCK II
America
clear nu
WRITKR In the
magazine gives so
analytical a description of Sen
ator Aldrlch that the reade
becomes almost personally acquaint
eajwlth the senate leader. Aldrlch
M brought up to and developed In
ojijiiness and has lived in a tnanu
fjturlng environment, and he is al
nlost totally devoid of sentiment. HI
rf&id. works persistently, clearly and
accurately. He is one of the men
Who actually love hard mental work
f&r its own sake; difficulties In
a ro his only real diversion or in
efease of enjoyment. He often an
sfcer's one's questions before they
are fully asked, because he knows
the working of the questioner's mind
anc, '"meets you at your destination
before you can tell him that you
have arrived." He admits haying
made some mistakes, but for them
he. has neither excuse nor regret, be
cause both are-useless. But he never
makes a like mistake twice. The ex
perience 'becomes a part of him, ever
i after -operating automatically. He
thinks - in mathematically straight
lines, and is blind to all Inessentials,
so never needs to bother about them.
He sees things as If he were look
, ing at a tree In the bright sunlight
through a tunnel; he visualizes the
tree exactly., completely, but sees
nothing else. The personal equation
never intrudes or interferes. He has
no irrelevant thoughts. He grasps'
all details easily, but they are made
without effort to serve the main pur
pose.,' He rules the senate majority,
not only because of superior knowl
edge of certain things and ability of
a certain kind, but because he is to
the last degree . a business man. He
knows that to get he must give. He
recognizes the value of quid pro quo.
He never "hogs it," with people who
help him play the game. He is a
eonsuniate trader; he is the sublima
tion of intelligent legislative trading.
'""Aldrlch masters any subject pre
sented to him by Btudy of it, which
is a delight rather than a task, and
he leads because he has mastered It
better than others. He learned the
political game from the ground up -'
as ftmncilnian, member of th& legis
lature and representative in congress
. and he has been a senator fo"
years. He has "played fair" with
; business people with whom he dealt,
hag" been personally honest, but has
missed no opportunities offered in
the way of getting valuable fran
chlses for little or nothing, and, in
a word, taking every advantage the
law allowed to "work" the people.
ATffrfch has said that he works for
the wage earner. But he dos so,
according to his light, via the man
ufacturers and other great industrial
concerns. He takes care of these,
which give many men a chance to
'work. That the -manufacturer may
become a millionaire and the wage
earner may not be able to save a
dollar is a result that makes no
appeal 1o Aldrlch. His experience
has strengthened and sharpened his
jnfnd, but he has made no intellec
tual growth. His early environment
cooled and hardened his vision and
conception "like molten iron in a
mptd." His soul could acquire no
wfaga with which to soar; it always
wked. But. he observes, on the
ground, clearly, comprehensively, ac
curately. He said: "Success is gained
by-: knowledge of human nature and
knowledge of conditions." Human
ity is colorless to him; he has neither
open contempt nor admiration for
mankind. He does not either worry
or rejoice at their condition.. He
knows them as they are, and cares
not, to have them different. He is
equally indifferent to the corruption
Ist and the reformer. Ho takes men
a be finds them, and uses such as
he needs, as much as possible. If he
falls, he feels no enmity, no regret;
hft' did his best and the "incident is
crosea. trie experience may come
lno play when needed later. He
studies conditions as a chemist ana
lyses a compound. He never makes
the common .mistake of seeing what
he desires if it Isn't there; he sees
only what is. and exactly as it is.
He wastes no energy on wishes. He
has no Imagination; and no love for
anything or anybody, except a for
mal sort of love for his family.
Aldrich cares nothing for newspa
per criticism, so that he gets desired
results. He holds no grudge against
opponents in me senate. They are
simply material that he cannot use,
and he recognizes that, and is coolly
cordial with them. He knows that
h.3 can only pass a high protection
tariff bill by appealing to the self
interest of enough senators from dif
ferent sections; he gives enough of
them whatever they want in return
for their votes for all he wants, and
ARFIELD said that he always
felt like taking off his hat to
a boy. He' meant that he
thought of the possibilities of
accomplishment, of Influence, of
growth, lying latent, unseen, but
vaguely Imagined, if at all, by the
boy. He was himself a poor widow's
son, who had to work for his living
and help her, when n half grown boy,
and he knew what such a boy might
do.
As one observes a group of boys
wilh whom he Is individually unac
quainted, it is pretty much a guess
In the dark as to what they will be
come, which will develop into highly
successful men and which Into sad
failures. They are largely mysteries
as yet, these young boys; Just what
directions they will take when they
are grown, and how far they will go
up or down, or if they will be en
tlrely commonplace and quietly fol
low humble, unnoticed paths, no one
can tell. But let It not be forgotten
that the training and Impulses given
now, when they are mentally and
morally pliable, flexible, impression
able, are In many cases of the utmost
Importance. Often parents are care
ful and diligent about their land,
their business, their money, and
careless about their boys, the boys
that ought to be to them of greater
Importance than all these other
things.
But pretty soon the boys become
young men; then the Observer can
make a pretty good guess concern
ing their future. One may see any
day old. wrecked, wretched men of
40. 60. 60 or more, with despondent
look and hopeless mien, men broken
physically, morally, mentally and
financially; men all over whom fail
ure is written large. So one may
also see other men old in years, yet
young: clean, serene, untroubled, re
spected, lovable old men, who in
their long lives lying beliind have
little to regret, who are approaching
the end In comfort and without re
morse or fear; men who have Ju
diciously both conserved and used
thAr resources during life and have
made it a moderate success.
One can pretty surely point out
some young men wno win De oiu
men of the former type old re
pulsively and Bhamefuty long before
they are really old m years, rou
can see these young men on street
corners, hanging around cigar
stands, poolrooms and saloons, smok
ing cigarettes and exchanging ob
scene jts that they basely imagine
to be humorous. You may find some
candidate for this sort of old age,
too, among the young men who shirk
their work, keep their eyes on the
clork and do as little as possible to
draw their pay. There Is always a
iat either of these young
men may take a turn for the better,
but unless he does he will never
amount to anything good, he will be
an Increasing failure and nuisance
until, unhonored and unwept, he
passes off the stage.
But you can also find types of
a young man pieasanter 10 coniem-
nlght, when about one half the
guests hurried In their waiting autos
to the Calico Ball atSherry'a where
after showing themselves, they has
tened -back to the colonel's palace at
Sixty-fifth street and Fifth avenue.
Then the supper was served, and af
ter that two personages of social re
nown, led the cotillion and ll was
far Into the morning when the part
ing guests sped away from the fes
tivities that emphasised the gallant
colonel's return to single blessed
ness. The favbrs were 50 parasols
and rich mirrors of rare design that
cost the generous host a round $18,-
traatlng It with the record of other
boom tlmea In Nevada, the New York
World says "Its hotels are swamped,
the spare cottages occupied, and by
another year solid property holders
look for a keen speculation In de
sirable lots In the foothills command
ing a view of the courthouse."
It recalls that tho history of Ne
vada Is a succession of spuria and
collapses. State life rose to great
heights of affluence and Importance
In the bonanza days, and when the
senatorial microbe got Into rival sli
ver kings, money flowed like water.
It was a harvest time for the na-
000. The unanimous verdict of theitives, but in an evil hour the Cora-
assembled company is that the gay stock lodes played out and plunged
and festive colonel has hit upon a
new plan by which high "sasslety,"
when time hangs heavy, can chase
away dull ennui and Improve the
stupid hours.
With the present ratio of one dl
vorco for every 12 marriages, which
threatens at, any time to advance to
two or three to 12, it will be seen
that Colonel Astor's invention fills a
long felt want and that the Inventor
Is entitled to a high place among
the noble men of this time. Newton
gave us the law of gravitation, Morse
the electric telegraph, Edison and
Cray the telephone, Whitney the cot
ton gin, Marconi the wireless, the
Wrights the aeroplane and, in the
midst of our felicity along comes
Colonef John Jacob 'Astor of New
York and, for the sake of the socially
exclusive, gives us the divorce sup
per. Wonderful and Incomprehensi
ble is man!
THE HUMAN ENGINE
T
HE AVERAGE man Inhales 24
cubic Inches of air 24 times
each minute, or 26 cubic feet
an hour, and exhales an equal
amount. The exhalation is a mix
ture of air, gas. Impure water va
por, decayed mpleeular and cellular
animal matter, disease germs and
other impurities. In a tightly closed
room occupied by many persons this 1
exhalation Is a constantly flowing
stream of contamination, poison and
Impurities. If fresh air supply is
not admitted, these impurities are in
haled and exhaled repeatedly with a
constantly increasing effect on the
atmosphere until in the occupants of
the room there appears drowsiness,
weakness, a feeling of stupidity and
a tendency to headaches. The con
dition is detrimental to health and
strength, and Is a generous medium
for the- spread of infection. It makes
the liouseH and public edifices we
have reared elements both of civili
zation and sickness.
We pay too little heed to this Im
portant subject.
We often find ourselves in crowded
theatres and public meetings, where
we sit. for two or three hours inhal
ing over and over again the con
stantly lowering standard of atmos
phere. We patronize stores crowded
with customers, each exhaling 20
cubic feet of impurities per hour and
crowd into moving picture places
where the ntmosphere fs thick with
contamination. At a recent test of
the air In Chicago theatres during
performances, but two of the many
examined showed conditions charac
terized as only fair. We have many
school and offige buildings of an
cient design in which the science of
ventilation is little if at all applied
and were human beings sit for
hours and suffer for lack of nature's
Invaluable and essential fresh air. It
Is one of the tragedies of civiliza
tion that it took mankind so long
to discover that the savage in his
wigwam was In some respects better
situated than we In such of our man
sions and palaces as are Imperfect
the state Into the vicissitudes of an
Innocuous desuetude.
But a brief revival came when In
1897 the Corbett-Fltzslmroons fight
again placed Nevada on the map and
once more lifted the population Into
the heyday of prosperity. The sage
brush hills echoed and reechoed to
the clink of money changing and the
alkali dust swept over the fiery pral
rles 'unnoted and uncondemned by
the thrifty citizenry. But the genius
of California was covetous, and while
Nevada lulled herself to sleep lnher
supposed security, San Francisco and
Los Angeles reached over the moun
tains, robbed Reno of her prize and
became the sanctuaries of pugilism.
AaJn hard times fell upon Ne
vada, but In due season Tonopah
rose on the ruins and once more
there were funds and feasting In Ne
vada. Towns sprang up over night,
the sagebrush swayed under the
breath of activity, the Jack rabbit
fled to the mountain fastnesses and
Nevada was again In the midst of one
of her traditional spurts. But, alas
and alack, the proverbial hoodoo
again fell, the Tonopah boom ex
ploded and hard times again settled
over this commonwealth of check
ered chapters and fluctuating fortunes.
The retrospect makes the cheering j
news from Reno more than welcome.
The divorce colony is a lead that
will never peter out, and unless Cal
ifornia, once more in a spirit of
covetousness, shall reach out and
rob her of her new activity, Reno
will henceforth revel in a precious
and permanent prosperity.
lible gulde, counselor and great and
good friend must conclude, that Den
mark Is peopled by fools, -theorists
and doctrinaires, notwithstanding he
fact that they are the best farmers
In the world and secure the best re
sults. What a glorious opportunity
awaits the Oregonlan to move to Co
penhagen and there enter Into a cam
patgn for the saving of this poor
people from their folly. If this move
were made, it would be a great bene
fit to Denmark and a profound relief
to the people of this state.
County Judge Cleeton sentenced a
man who failed to support his young
wife, soon to become a mother, to
one year's work on the rock pile, the
wife to be paid $1.60 a day that a
new law provides may be paid on ac
count of a prisoner'! work to sup
port his family. With the exercise
of good Judgment and due discrim-''
(nation on the part, of the court, It. Is
a good law. This good for nothing
fellow or worse would not provide
for his wife, but he can be made to
do ' work that Is of value to. the
county and payment of the money to
his needy wife will keep her from
becoming a county charge, and will
probably not lessen his deserved punishment.
has done nothing for' his Tiumbl
companion, 'and has seemed not even
to remember his existence any more.
Henson Is on a "lecturing tour," 1ut
the general public never hears of
him. 'He stuck to Peary for many
years, rendering him valuable serv
ices, and was tha only man to go to
the Pole with the explorer, and, is
certainly entitled to a modest share
of the credit, lame and emoluments
resulting from that Jourtfey.
Uho IlEALM
FEMININE
Both . Scientist and Woman.
W
HEN a woman accomplishes
something wonderful In any of
the sciences, the world marvels
and exclaims, but It Is never
particularly touched In Its af
fection), because It usually pictures the
scientific female as bespectacled, un
lovely, unwifely and lacking- fn those
prettr lltle traces of manner and of
dress.
Yet there' seems no doubt that Mme.
the arestast woman In the
theory that mental accomplishment 1
above the ordinary detract from natural
feminine charm.
A magazine article calls attention
to the deterioration of fruit In east
ern states during recent years, and
gives the destruction of birds s the
cause. Since birds have decreased
In number. It is claimed, the yield
of frnlt has not only been less, but
what has grown has-been of poorer
quality. Orchardists no doubt gain
much more than they lose by the
birds.
Mrs. Matt Henson. wife of the ne
gro who accompanied Peary to the
Pole, or as far north as he went,
says that since their return Peary
Governor Marshall of. Indiana, re
sponding to a request fof an opinion
as to what that state moat needs, Curie.
aa 14 ft was frin t An i mlint. ernlalnln I world," as her admirers Insist on calllns
.. . . ... . , . oui I her, has found time both for lovs and
that by this he meant A body olcitl- fop ,n hor b ,lf and h
. 1 aaV A a A fx mr'm I ... .... -
sens wno are cuuivnv uu i seems 10 ds a Jiving refutation or he
work for a day's wage; who are-Will-
lng to pay a day' wage for a day's
work; who are unwilling to smrit
work and gain wages by cunning; it seems impossible to picture this
who are unwilling by enforced em-1 really charming woman as delving lnto
ployment to Increase profits; who l'STJl
believe more in the common good substance as radium, and aa now h vlna-
than In the larger good; wno wouia found polonium, which is 6000 times
rather be buried In a pine box wet rer tnan raaium. tei Mme. mne. not
.Hh e-annlnA Uorl than to hftVfi . Willi mv lliu.npun, worKS
with genuine tears man to nave .,, trinin- h.r nm. h.
rosewood casket guarded by detec- in the hope that the child win also he.
tlves; who really feel that Indiana come a scientist and aurpass the mother
is the land of opportunity, Individ- ,n 'vements.
uality and manhood, and not hood in a laboratory. Forty years ago
land or Knavery, incsery ana cuii- sne is now in ner forty-fifth year
ninii! who believe he Is.not wise who ns gave up her dolls to play with re
la f lnHt and that liisttee is as tori' rruclbles and test tubes In the
Is not Just, and urn justice is " Ucientific workshop of her fther. M.
mucn me inner icuvw o njui a " bKloriovsky, professor of physics of a
own. I conege in varsovs
I Her girlhood and young womanhood.
Rtrikes do not occur In Canada f up
. . . . v . I " " j j " my iT-iiv.T, nit h 1 1 1 in 1 1 H
uecause QHierencrs neiwet-u cuiinv- of future livelihood, were a constant
ers and employes are subject to le- struggle with want and privation. It
Ml Investigation and arbitration, r." rn'im w" 'uiymg in Paris
" I that hap iinuana I t I .
Tl.l V,f ho tha caao In ir "r""I"J sum. com
11 1" uuiii. v. yj' v 1 Dined With her tender wnnnnhnAH
country claiming to be civilized. New attracted the attention of her teacher
Zealand is also a country Without na future husband. Professor t'urle.
tritrea or lnrknnts Thev are lm- 7 u '"v" " one or tne most
strikes or locKouts. iney are im be.utJfu, , th. rMlma of .dnre
possible there, yet many Americans jt seemed more than improbable at
would turn up their noses at the that tiipe that these two young people
hint from JU"1 "iruggnng ror recognition and
rnougn income to live on and carry on
suggestion of taking a
New Zealand.
PROGRESSIVE IDEAS IX DENMARK
I
"Big Noises" of the Days' News
N THE March "Outlook maga
zine number, there will be found
a very Interesting paper on Den
mark, entitled "Commonwealth
Ruled by Farmers." It seems from
this article that Denmark Is a farmer
state, there being but few large land
owners. The farmers not only control
in a business way, but also politic
ally. There Is substantially no Illit
eracy, and the Dane is said to be
the best farmer in the wvsJd aco
operatlon the state takes a very ac
tive part in all of the affairs of the
country. Ab the article states: "Like
Switzerland and Germany, the little
state of Denmark shows that the old
philosophy of individualism is broken
down, and that there are many ac
tivities which the state itself must
assume in order to protect the peo
ple and promote their common wel
fare." Denmark, of course, owns its rail
roads, and, strange as It may seem,
the idea of our good friend Bill Han- j ?nd replace the toupee 40 timen
By Herbert Corey.
After all. things don't break so
far from even In this life, do they?
There's John Davidson Rockefeller,
for example Worth 1660,000,000.
71 years old and he hasn't got
a hair of his own that wouldn't
he a dead giveaway on a 2-year-old
pig. Of course, lie has plenty
of store hair. Any time be walks down
Rroadway and sees a switch that he
thinks he'd like, all he has to do la to
order It eent home. If he doen't care
to pin It right then and there. The best
and kindest thing that John I could
hear right now la that his hair Is fall
ing out. That would Imply the pos
session of a hair, don't you see? and
maybe that hair wouldn't have the time
of Ita fair young life! Its proud own
er would have an automatically regulated
gold bedroom built for It, and hire a col
lege of physicians and surgeons to dope
out new nerve foods for It And If
it persisted on its headlong course and
would fall out, why, Mr. Rockefeller
eould. hire Wright brothers, if he wanted
to, to build a parachute for It and break
Its fall.
But the way things are framed up.
Mr. Rockefeller can have everything
else in this world almost that he
wants, except half. Not even the su
preme court can furnish him that. And
It Isn't unkind to twit John D. about It.
either. Most of his life has been spent
In lifting the hair of other men, and it's
no more than a fitting retribution that
he should approach the last lap with a
dome so polished that by its side a Mex
ican hairless dog would look like an
African Jungle. Nowadays they say that
"bogle" on Mr. Rockefeller's Pocantloo
golf links is to make the course In 110,
Un-
plate. You will always find hlm.J their ventilation.
during working hoiirs at work, and
doing his best. If an employe, he
will do hiB best for his employer, will
earn more rather than less than his
wages, as a matter of principle and
not merely as a matter of policy.
Only in this way can he advance.
You will seldom if ever find him in
a saloon, or with a cigarette in his
mouth, or loafing around among ri
bald, sporty fellows. He need not
be a "sissy" or a "goo goo" sort of
young man; ne may use iikhu nij i
and lively recreation, but he will be
essentially clean, and upright, and
moral, and determined to advance by
doing right and not wrong. These
are the young men that will grow
old gracefully and admirably and
that in later days will find the earth
not a purgatory as the other young
Jl.. 1 A
men will, mit a gooaiy, pieabdui.
world to the end.
The recent experiments with out-
in Denmark, but adopted and is now
the law. It seems that four or five
hundred miles of new railway were
required; this Is the way they got at
it: "It was recognized that the build
ing of these railways would increase
the value of the adjoining land. It
was suggested that the road should
door schools in Chicago were a rev-! be l'aid rr by special assessments,
elation as to the dismal effects of and a11 of the increase in land value
contaminated atmosphere. The j should be appropriated by the state
classes were conducted under sheds ,! t0 Pa' for ,he construction. The min
in the parks. Backward children j i8try advocated that one half of the
greatly improved in their classwork,' increment should be so appropriated,
weak children became strong and in-1 but the measure as passed provides
creased in weight, sallow cheeks be- j 'hat the land shall be valued after
came rosy and the drones became ac-' the roads are completed and a tax
THE DIVORCE SI ITER
T
HE HEARTFELT gratitude of
high society is due Colonel
John Jacob Astor of New Yrk.
in human achievement, as
viewed in the exclusive circles of the
social elect, he has done that which
should write his name high among
the benefactors of mankind. He has
invented the divorce supper, and
thereby has given those who have
nothing but time and money a new
diversion with which to while away
the lazy hours of life.
In a flamboyant ceremonial, the
colonel celebrated his separation by
divorce from his wife and the oc
casion was so replete with innovation
and agreeable entertainment that
the divorce supper is certain to be
come a fixed and accentuated func
tion among the smart sets of the
country. As described by the New
York papt'i's, the whole night
through'there was a aladdening of
spirits and flow: of soul. It occurred
on the eve preceding the granting of
the divorce, and opened with a re
splendent dinner at which were
seated 150 of the most exclusive
and most brilliantly pedigreed among
Gotham's 400 With the dinner over,
there ".as dancing until after mid-
tive.
The human body Is very similar
to a steam engine. Roth are heat
ejigines and both receive power from
combustion of fuel. It is the food,
acted upon by the chemical pro
cesses of the body, that produces hu
man energy, just as fuel produces
power in the steam engine. The
average human engine consumes
enough power in 24 hours to heat
47 pounds of water from 32 degrees
to the boiling point. Air is the most
necessary element in feeding the hu
man engine. In order to support
combustion we must have oxygen to
burn our carbon and this must come
from the fresh air. When this air
is not supplied in sufficient fresh
ness and quantity, the effectiveness
of the machine is at once interfered
with. It becomes imperfect and we
have the world old story of enfeebled
life, weakness and disease.
The owner takes no chances on
poor fuel or lack of water supply for
the steam engine. He observes all
the precautions and it would seem
important to be equally vigilant in
taking care of the human machine.
Are the new theatres, new churches,
new school buildings and other edi
fices in Portland to have proper ventilation?
ey Of Hums for building a state owner have t0 nandlcaD themselves bv
railway has been not only discussed j balancing an egg on the Up of the
""no " ll.ll iuiiuig 1UI cavil UUm. 1.1 19
also a rule that the dominies may not
quote from the original Greek when
they miss a stroke. Mr. Rockefeller
feels deeply the lack of an early clas
sical education.
Seventy-one years 650 million dol
lars and nary a hair! You can't
call that an attractive combination, aft
er all. But he may be able to satis
fy the last ambition that Is left to him
to become a very old man. Born In
Tioga county, N. Y., In 1839. his early
years were vigorous and well filled
Removing to Cleveland when he was a
mere kid with his father, the old medi
cine peddler, he began to work about as
soon as he had gained enough educa
tion to get out of the day laborer class
Soon he began to show evidence of that
abnormal business capacity which later
astounded the world. Kor.BO years he
thought of nothing else. And then
quoted as the richest man In the world,
with a greater bulk of immediately
available cash than any other man In
the world, perhaps the head of the
greatest industrial 'organization ever
built up. he began to reach out for
the kindly opinion of the public for
the first time i bis life.
And ,n th's n 18 t0 be doubted if he
succeeded. Fifty years of remorseless
exercise of power; 40 years as the re
sponsible bead of the Standard Oil sys
tem, which lias burst through or
trampled upon or evaeted or defied laws
at will: the target of the undying en
mity of the men he has ruined, ex
pressed through press and courts, have
their work should In no comnarativstv
short a time divide the Nobel science
prize of something like $20,000, that the
husband should refuse the Cross of the
Legion of Honor because the aame dis
tinction could not be offered to hl wlf
and that the wife should oe the first
woman to be appointed to the coveted
chair of physics in the 8orbonne.
Mme. Curie now lives simnlv and
frugally In a quiet bouse " In Paris.
screened from the outer world hv
high wall. When sho is not In hr
laboratory or Indulging n her favorite
recreation riding the bicycle she is to
be found teaching her little daughter
Irene, of whom she Is Just as nasslnn-
ately found as any ordinary mother
without her high scientific attainments.
For the mother with her Is never lnt
sight of In the scientist. She Is as de
voted to her home as though she had
never hesrd of radium.
News Forecast of
Week
Drawn by Igoe.
JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER.
THE LATEST AT KEXO
P
ORK IS FAR above the record
prices in Portland, beef Is at
shall be levied on the .unearned In
crement equal to one third of the
value which has been added to the
estates of the land owner. It has
been estimated that this alone will
pay for the cost of the railroads."
This is just the method Bill Hanley
proposed through his railroad dis
tricts, so perhaps he wasn't so much
of a fool as his critics would have
the public believe.
Taxation of land valueB Is also a
live Issue In Denmark. It seems that
under the system of income taxa
tion the tax on the smallest, land
owner is t.w:e that of he grade just
above, and three times that of the
large land owner, per unit of land.
"The state recognizes that the small
patch is more productive than large
holdings. This makes it obvious to
the hussman (the Bmall land ownei1)
that he is being taxed on his Indus
try and not. on his opportunity." He
feels that this is unjust and that
by the taxation of all land at its cap
ital value the large estate will be
more readily broken up and all
classes will pay according to their
opportunity and not. according to
their energy. Accordingly the farm
ers' association has passed the fol
lowing resolution: "The Danish peas
built up In the public mind a portrait
of John D. Rockefeller which Is hard
to efface a cold, hard man that limning
shows. A ruthless man, an unjust man,
a silent man and sly man, but always a
tremendously successful man. Now the
unused smile seems only to hint at hy
pocrisy, and the religious' feeling h
insists upon is scoffed at by the public
that has watched him in action for 48
years.
But this may not be quite fair. John
P. Rockefeller, nearest to a billionaire
the.- world has ever seen, the most flint
hearted monopolist that ever crushed
out petty competition, is 71 years old
Every second that deposits its' golden
toll in his strong box leads him a bit
nearer to the Inevitable. He is trying
desperately, to live long, very long. His
health is perfect. He lias eliminated
worry and the human emotions as far
as possible. He forces his dietetic
notions upon a world that must perforce
"eat lightly." He plays golf with his
gallery of clerical tame cats, not be
cause he cares so greatly for the gaajie
as because it promises him renewed vig
or. And all the time he remembers. Not
many moths ago he said:
"Once there were 60 of us all strong
men, associated l.n the Standard Oil.
Now there are but four."
Since then Henry Huttleston Rogers
has passed over, and now there are but
three. And one of these, to paraphrase
a golden poet
"And one of these is lean and grows
old."
(Copyrighted 1910, by Edwin Wildman).
Marck 13 in History Eminent Dr. Priestley-
Two continents may rightfully claim
Dr. Joseph Priestley, and any country
would be proud to own him. Although
the distinguished theologian and man of
science waB born in England, and in that
country wrote the greater part of his
scientific and theological literature, he
came to make his home in America at
the height of his fame, and died In this
country, and is buried In the little Qua
kers' burial-ground at Northumberland,
Pa.
Joseph Priestley was born on March
13, 1733, near Leeds, England. The cen
tennial of the discovery of oxygen was
celebrated on August 1, 1874, by the un
veiling of a statue to his memory In
Birmingham, England, an address in
Paris and in this country by a gather-
I inn- nf chemists at hl irravA In Mnrt h
ant farmers demand the earliest pos- j umberland, where appropriate addresses
sible abolition Of a.U duties and taxes were made by T..Sterry Hunt, Benjamin
levied upon articles of consumption Siliiman and other scientists, t
. n J- ., i, m , Priestley was the son of a cloth dres-
or assessed Mn proportion" to income i8er and h' father dylnK wnen ne waa
on labor, and in lieu thereof they i only 6 years old, he was adopted into
unheard-of notches, in Chicago, j demand that a tax be imposed on the the home of his aunt, and was given an
stocks are active in New York, j value of the land, which value.is not ec?',fnt 1fducat1'?"- H 'ed for the
t ...... .-i ... i.. (lirnkhlniT V, J . tnJt,.Jn a.. U.. 1 ., . ' ' v cl,w'
11 iTr i ji ict- 10 iuiuuuiu cicijwmriCi i uuc iu aii luuiuuuai ruui v, uui is
but it is Reno, Nev., that boasts the derived from the growth and devel
blggest boom. The divorce colony is' opment of the community."
at the flood tide, the rich sojourners! in the light of these facts, doubt
are loaded with easy money, .and ' less the Oregonlan would consider
that Denmark, notwithstanding its
prosperity, is "the fool of the Euro
pean family.'' Digciples of our Infal-
times for the uative population are
the best in history. Recounting some
evidences of present thrift and con-
it, he was rejected on account of his
views on original sin, the atonement and
eternal damnation. He then taught
school for some time, and was finally
given the degree of L.L. D.. from the
I'niverslty of Edinburgh, and was elect
ed to the Royal Society In 1766.
From 1773 till 17S0, while acting as
literary companion to the Earl of Sliel
bourne, Priestley made his great discov
eries in chemistry. He was unacquaint
ed with the subject; he had no apparatus
and knew nothing of chemical experi
menting, but these adverse oonditlons
may have been serviceable as he entered
upon a new field, where apparatus had
to be Invented, and the arrangements he
devised for the' manipulation of gases
are unsurpassed in simplicity and have
been used ever since. The first of these
discoveries was nitrate oxide in 1772. In
1774 he made his discovery of oxygen
After coming to the United States he
also made important discoveries along
this same line.
Priestley arrived In America on the
4th of June, 1794, landing in New York,
and from thence to Philadelphia, where
ho was offered the professorship of
chemistry In the University of Pennsyl
vania with. a good salary, but declined,
preferring to choose his own occupation
in retirement. Upon going to North
umberland he built for himself a lab
oratory and an extensive library, where
he worked studiously up to a short time
before his death, which oecurred on
February , 1804.
Toplady said of Priestley's character,
"I love a m$in whom I can hold up as a
piece of crystal, and look through htm."
Huxley said, "He charmed away the bit
terest prejudice In personal intercourse."
Dr." Aikln says of htm, "In the domestic
relations of life he was uniformly kind
and affectionate; his parental feelings
were those o the tenderest and best of
fathers,' and not even malice itself could
ever fix a stain ljpon his private con
duct, or impeach his integrity."
Washington, March 12. The appeal
of the Standard Oil company agalnist
the decision of the United States cir
cuit court of appeals in the govern
ment's suit to dissolve the corporation
for violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law la set down for argument Monday
In the supreme court of the' United
States. Attorney General Wlckershaiu
will appear in person to argue for the
government.
The docket of the supreme tribunal
for the same day aleo provides for a
hearing In the half dozen canes brought
in various states to test the constitu
tionality of the corporation tax pro
visions of the Payne tariff act.
President Taft will leave Washington
Wednesday afternoon for Chicago,
where he is to speak the following
night at the St. Patrick's day ban
quet of the Irish Fellowship club. Fri
day night the president will speak be
fore the chamber of commerce of Roch
ester and on Saturday he will visit Al
bany. While in Albany be will be
the guest of Governor Hughes and ad
vantage will probably be taken of his
visit to hold an important conference
of Republican leaders in regard to the
political situation In the "Empire state.
The federal grand Jury in Qhlcago
will resume Its investigation of the
alleged beef trust. Numerous witnesses
have been summoned to appear before
the grand jury and It Is expected that
some Important evidence may be given.
Court action In behalf of Charles W.
Morse, the convicted New York banker,
will probably be instituted in the fed
eral courts of Atlanta early in th
week. Just what form the action will
take has not yet been divulged bv
Martin W. Littleton. Morse's counsel.
Tho court of appeals at Albany has
set Monday as the day for hearing ar
guments on the state's appeal from
ifce decision of Supreme Court Justice
Tompkins, appointing a referee to take
testimony on the application to show
cause why Harry K. Thaw should not
be transferred from the Mstteawnn
state hospital for Insane criminals t
another institution.
A special general convention of the
United Mitie Workers of America has
been called to meet In Cincinnati Mon
day to further discuss the question nf
naw wage agreement for the year
commencing April 1.
With Secretary of the Interior Ballin-
ger and his late subordinate, Giffoid
Plnchot, among the scheduled speakers.
the- proceedings of the Minnesota con
servation congress in St. Paul will at
tract national attention. Other speak
ers will include Governor Eberhart,
James J. Hill, Archbishop Ireland and
Dr. H. W. Wiley. -
Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shacklcton, -the
south polar explorer, will sail from
England Saturday for New York. After
a lecture tour of the United States
and Canada, he will make an extended
hunting trip in northern Alaska.
Other events and happenings that
will figure in the news of the week:
will include the proceedings of tha
British parliament, the arrival of the
Roosevelt party at Khartoum, the Sav
ior, murder trial at Watseka, 111., th
opening of the feeders and breeders'
show at Fort Worth, and the assembling
of the provincial legislature of Quebeo.
Newt-paper men are unusually promi
nent lr. the present membership of the
national Democratic committee. Chair
man Norman E. Mack, Secretary Urey
Woodson and Treasurer Herman Ridder
all conduct newspapers. Other members
of the committee who are newspaper
publishers include Clark Howell of
Georgia, R. M. Johnston of Texas. Jose-'
phus Daniel of North Carolina and Rob
ert Ewing of Louisiana.
The Democratic party In Nebraska
appears to be seriously divided over
trie liquor question. Governor Shallen-
berger is with the anti-saloon people.
and Mayor Dablman of Omaha is for
license and a liberal stale administra
tion. The Ouinha mayor has announced
his candidacy for governor against Gov-,
ernor Shr-llenberger,, and the two are t "
fight it cut t the primaries
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