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THE JOURNAL iX-SWDKPKNDENT XIWSPArKR. - Publlaber pnMthcI erery evening ieept Snnday) anil ewy UnmUj moraine it Tha JJ ' Ins, Fifth and Xamniu ttreaia. n. TVwtland. Or., tat tranamUaion throufc'h tn malta .aoMlass Biattar. : Tmi EPHnvitH -i. Main T178: Home, A-S061. All department reached by theaannnibera, .rU tba operator what department you want. FORlCiaN ADVEBTtSINO BRPRESBXTATiyK, . Benjamin Kentnor Co.. Brnrnwlrk Bnlldlnf, S25 Fifth' Vena. New Xork; 1218 Ptoplo'. baa Building, Cbicago. Bnhocrlptlon Term by,jnall or to any addreas In too United 6tea, Canada or Mexico: , rf DAILY. On year $5.00 On month... .60 , ." . StTNDAT. ' Oo rear........ $2.50 1 0n month 25 , . , .-. x DAJLT AND 8UNDAt. On rar ST.50 On month M To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, Is the highest ambition, the most rk-vating hope, which can inspire a human being. Ird Avebury. i IT TO THE HOUSE THE JOURNAL ascribes honesty .of purpose In road matters to all members of the bouse. But, i there are a number of the mem- bers who are grievously mistaken. . Here is a plan to substitute the "State engineer for the highway com , ' missloner.' There is not a" solitary ; reason for making ouch a change. There are a score of reasons for ' not doing so. ' The state engineer is not a road '' builder. He has a department of his own, and according to the gover nor's message and information from ' , other sources .is already overloaded " with duties. Why tack on the ad ministration of the roads as a tail to his department? Would it not . be equally sane to make it the tall to the labor commissioner's office? Of the state superintendent's office? Of the dairy and food commissioner's office? Or why not make it a part of the duties of the state bank examiner?"'-. In the change, It Is proposed to increase the state engineer's salary 11200 a year. It is proposed to hire a road engineer to serve under him at $2406 a year. The combined sal aries will be nearly as much as the proposed salary of the highway com-j mlssloner. . ;- j . The appropriation proposed for j . ' the ptate engineer's office is $16,000, exactly the same as proposed by the highway" board and highway com ' missioned ' With the members then" who are advocating the state en gineer scheme, It is not a question of efficiency, but of who is to spend the money. The state engineer should go among his friends In the house and oppose the change. -He has respon- 'jsibiHtles enough where he Is, and - those who are attempting to thrust !the responsibility of the roads upon npon him will harm him and the , office he is now conducting. The house should vote down this change and accept ' the senate bill. It should accept all five of the bills passed by the senate. Those bills are the fruit of .long Investigation and patient study of the road situa- tion in Oregon. They offer to the people of the state a complete system from which through a course of years good roads will result Such opposition as has developed to the senate bills Is based on mis information as to their provisions, and will, as soon as the facts become known be turned Into general ap proval. Some people oppose because they fear a Pacific highway, but there is no plan in any of the hills for a Pacific highway. The roads have to lead to one of the principal market places in the i county. The county court makes se lection of the route. No road has to be built unless the people of the -county demand it No bonds can be issued unless the people of the county vote them. When a road is built, the state pays one third the cost, a proposition offered the farm ers for the first time In the history of the state. The whole plan Is fair, intelligent and equitable. The people of the state are clamoring. for better roads, and as soon as they fully understand the senate bills the plan will meet with general approval. The house cannot afford to en danger road legislation by attempt ing foolish and ill-considered changeB. An adjournment without efficient action will result In a thun der of disapproval. The 'senate has done its duty, as to roads, and done It well. The responsiblljty as to re sults now rests with the house. It has its opportunity to demonstrate that a legislature can still be trusted to do constructive work for the state. It is on trial on the road question, and has but a brief two weeks in which to meet the issue. Its safe course lies in adopting the senate tills, as they stand. THE OPENING OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT T HIE OPENING today of the new parliament at Westminster is of more than historical import ance. The ancient ceremonies will be observed. The troops will line the streets. The long proces sion, closed by the king and aueen 1n their gilded coach drawn by the eight:.; .Hanoverian, cream colored torses; will be photographed and de-scrlbed:-as has been done for at lmt a hundred and fifty years. The small chamber; where the house of jQrdftect-KiU-J)owd-44-4helbe4n)r'rnade , noors to near tne king deliver bis . message to the British' people' and to v the world at large,: ..;. . ; : , j v' , -On the outside of things no change wiL be apparent.'-- King, lords and THE commons will take their accustomed places But many in that audience, yes all, know that while old formulas may be maintained, yet for one of the three coordinate factors which for centuries, have made the parlia ment of Britain, the death knell of equal power has been sounded. .Marked by many swings of the pendulum of power the people of England through their representa tives, , the commons, ' have -mainiJ tafnad thAlr rlalm to the Hole conM trol of the purse of the nation. It was an evil day for ' the house of lords when the hereditary and not elected chamber grasped an assumed right to override the commons on finance. , Close observers saw in that one attempt the pride that cometh before a fall. Whether this new par liament marks the decisive 'ending of the, hereditary house or whether the conflict is prolonged by shrewd tactics into the next, will make no real difference In the result The power of a combined and educated people gives the momentum that in volves of necessity the cLange. There Is talk that the parliament ary majority behind the Liberal min istry Is but a coalition and will fall apart In time of stress. It may be so but the omens are that Liber als, Labor party, and Irish National ists will hold together at" least kmg enough to complete the work 'now taken in hand. Great events, of world wide Influ ence, will be crowded into the short months between this day and the coronation day in June. It is at least certain that in the reorganized elements of British government those that make for world peace and amity will emerge in stronger and predom inating influence. F THE HONOR OF THE LEGIS LATURE W HAT ARE THE individual views of the gentlemen of the Oregon legislature as to what moral standard should prevail in the conduct of a public of fice? ' This question will be definite ly determined in the attitude of each toward the state dairy and food com missioner's office : That office Is the creation of the legislature. The legislature is the only authority that can deal with it. It made the position, prescribed its functions and is the only power that can unmake or regulate It The creation, it Is true, was by a former legislature, but the same powers, the same prerogatives and the.satae responsibilities are vested in the body now in session at Salem. It Is the only authority that can be looked to for correcting conditions In the dairy and food commissioner's office. What are the members going to do about it? What are their In dividual views on the panvnount question of whether a public office is a public trust or a private snap? The legislature created the office as a means of guaranteeing to the people pure milk. It is common knowledge that all the power of the office was employed in the fight against pure milk in Portland. There is testimony by deputies who resigned, that public money In the office was diverted to private uses. Did the legislature create the office to misapply public funds'? There was testimony at Salem Sat urday to the effect that the office prosecuted some offenders and over looked the offenses of others. Did the legislature create the office to punish some offenders and let others go free? There are charges ' from every quarter that the, office is incompe tently administered, that it is costing largo sums of money and that it la used" for private more than public ends. Did the legislature create the office for such administration? The answer to these queries will be determined by the attitude of the individual members of the legislative body. It is the only authority in the state that can remedy the pres ent status of the office. The su preme court did not create the po sition. The people did not create it. The governor did not create it. It was the legislature alone that cre ated it, and It 1b the legislature alone that can remedy present conditions. What is it going to do about it? Is it the idea of the members that a public office they have created should be a private snap or a public trust? We shall see what we shall see. NEED OF VITAL STATISTICS. A' CTTNG ON THE principle that vital statistics are the foun dation of scientific and effect ive public health work, the census bureau began in 1908 the col lection of statistics of births, with a? view of establishing a provisional birth registration area. The work has been extended until this area now1 includes the New England states and Pennsylvania, Michigan, and the Dis trict of Columbia. Yet it is admitted that nowhere is the registration of births complete. This country is far behind foreign countries in regard to vital statistics. A report of the bureau of commerce and labor says that there Is not a single American state, or city even, that possesses a complete registra tion of births. While foreign cities register practically 100 per cent of births, a minimum of 90 per cent in fthls country is accepted. Most states have laws on this subject, but they are not uniform, nor thejrtat Jstica obtained very reliable. " But with the aid of state boards of health and medical associations, progress is What Is chiefly needed 1a complete and accurate statistics of infant mor tality. A" census committee report- ea tnat there was not an accurate record of deaths alone for more than OREGON DAILY . JOURNAL.' bS per cent of the country's popu lation. "No other civilized nation so neglects its duty in this respoct or holds the vital records of Its peo ple In such low esteem. . America shoujd not mean Barbarity in its re lation to infantile life." The remedy, proposed is adequate registration laws where they are not In existence,' and thorough enforce ment of such laws. What is regard ed as a model law has been prepared and Indorsed by various medical and publio health associations; it is in operation in several states, and Is giving satisfactory results. It Is estimated that In the United States the' deatffs of babies less than one year old constitute one fifth of the total mortality and of these deaths at least 125,000 were easily preventable! by Intelligent ' hygienlo treatment The prevention of intes tinal diseases, in possible cases, would reduce the deaths of babies under two years old by at least one fourth. "". The bulletin furnishing informa tion on this subject concludes: "The accurate collection, tabulation, and analysis of records of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and sickness may be said to constitute the book keeping of humanity. It is funda mental to the practical application of hygiene to secure higher effi ciency, longer duration of life, and fuller measure of happiness." DEVELOPMENT OF MOVING PICTURES I OTION PICTURES are being utilized for other purposes than that of mere amusement. In their use merely for amusement they have their good and bad aspects, and need to be restrict ed to exhibitions not damaging to the minds of children. The develop ment of their dramatic and historical use is gratifying. Here, Indeed Is an unlimited ( field In characters and scenes from the Bible; from De Foe, Scott, Dickens and other novelists, down to Churchill and De Morgan; from histories and exploration nar ratives, and from the fairy Stales which even this commercial age cart not entirely suppress. A French film-maker has engaged several young dramatists to write plays ex pressly for the motion picture cam eras. Some American manufacturers have contracts with stort story writers to use one of their sjtorles every two or three months. So far has this development progressed that in a list of 100 "pictures recently dis played at a certain exhibition 68 were of the drama and only 37 of the strictly comic variety. Those por traying violent crimes numbered 18 entirely too many; those would better be suppressed altogether. Of foreign films, however, the fantas tic or comic constitute about three fifths; one fifth are dramatic, and the other fifth' educational in the Instructive sense. Portrayals of scenes of crime and vice led to the formation in 1909, on the Initiative of the People's in stitute of New Tork, of the national board of censorship, Its object being to improve motion pictures and ex tend their' use as a social and edu cational force. With this are asso ciated various other societies work ing for moral and mental uplift without hampering too far yoking people's natural and healthy craving for amusement This national cen sor board has no legal status, hut its influence has Bpread, and picture shows are more or less censored in most cities. Moving pictures may be made highly educational. They can inter estingly and instructively portray current events. Combined with the X-ray and the micro-photograph Jthe moving picture can show the interior of the human body. There are now 12 mlcro-klnetographs dealing with surgery, and 45 with insect and germ life. They exhibit as through a microscope the origin of diseases and their various stages. Educational films now comprfse about 900 titles, dealing with every branch of science, the arts, archaeology, agriculture and travel. They are in use to warn and instruct people against tu berculosis. They show the opera tions of the housefly, magnified to the size of a hen. One film magni fies the neurons of the human brain 5000 times. The moving picture is employed In damage, criminal, and other trials. Its uses are almost Il limitable. REPRESENTATIVE RUSHLIGHT 1' R'. RUSHLIGHT ought to be at Salem. He ought to have gone there In the beginning and qualified as a legislator. His vote is needed there on large matters affecting the state's welfare. Moreover, In his declaration of his candidacy for representative, Mr. Rushlight solemnly declared: "If I am nominated for the office of rep resentative at the primary nominat ing election I will accept the nomi nation .and will not withdraw, and If I am elected, I will qualify as such officer." How can Mr. Rush light avoid going to Salem and serv ing in the position to which he was elected? , Three New York children, aged 11, 9 and 7, played with a loaded revol ver in a vacant lot The 9-year-old girl killed the 7cye'ar-old boy tfnd fatally wounded the older boy. It Is supposed that the respective par ents are surprised and sorry. Seattle's gain in postal receipts in January over January. 1909. was 4 percenCnPortland's gafn was 15 per cent: At this rate, how will the population and business of the two cities, compare in 1920? PORTLAND, MONDAY pr6vinces 1 are facing' slow and ter rlble death by famine, v Unless fed from abroad, a million will, die be fore .spring, says , a dispatch. The people of this country , should get busy immediately In sending help to these sufferers. ' , 1 ' The prospect, regardlng'Oregon ir rigation projects is brightening. Not only Is the west Umatilla project as sured, but completion of the Klamath project is positively promised. These two will afford homes for thousands more people. i ,s . v' " . The Juvenile Judge Bill. 1 Portland, Or., Feb. 4 To the Editor of The Journal. Thera seams to b considerable, misapprehension about the bill which was recently Introduced, pro viding for the designation of the Juve nile Judjje on the ballot. . H- ' In talking with various members of the legislature, as well as others, I find the Impression prevails that tho object of this -bill Is to secure an additional circuit Judge. This Is not the case. The object of thia bill Is to allow the voters the opportunity of selecting a Judgs who shall hvs entire charge of the Juvenile court. When not occupied by the duties of the Juvenile court he will of course be assigned to other cases, as are the other circuit Judges. Under the present system the duties of the Juve nile court are taken In turn by tha dif ferent Judges. One argument used against the desig nation of the Juvenile Judge on the bal lot Is that there la more apt to be a Judge thoroughly qualified to handle juvenile court matters among the six Judges than If one were selected for this purpose. This might be true if one of the six most fitted for this work were selected to permanently administer the affairs of the Juvenile court, but under the present system of each Judge serving for five or six months and then passing the duties on to one of the other Judges, It results In a much less .effective admin istration of these dutls than if they were In the entire charge of one Judge. It Is claimed that by a reorganisation of the present method employed in our circuit court no additional Judges are re quired. If this Is the case It seems there can be no valid objection to hav ing one of the Judges assigned to the work of the Juvenile court The people as a whole would be able - to select a judge who would make an efficient and sympathetic Juvenile Judge. whether there should be an additional Judge or not Is a question. Two of the Judges think, no additional help Is re quired, while the other Judges are In clined to think one additional Judge la required to prevent delay In circuit court cases. The following figures are Interesting, showing the growth of Portland and the growth of the duties of the circuit Judges. In 1902 we had four Judges and the number of cases entered were 789, the receipts of the clerk's office being $7972.28. In 1910 we have five Judges, the number of cases entered are 2S42 and receipts of the clerk's office are $21,228.95. The population In 1910 Is double that of 1902. There are 20 circuit Judges In the state of Oregon, five of which are In Multnomah county. Multnomah county has approximately one Judge for each 41,000 people. The rest of the state has one Judge for approximately every 28, 000 tfeople. The taxable property In Multnomah county is something over $277,000,000, while In the remainder of the state it Is about $470,000,000, making the total tax able property In the state In round number $747,000,000. Multnomah county has one Judge for each $55,000,000 worth of property, the remainder of the state having one Judgs for each $81,000,000 of taxable property. It would seem from the above that In comparison with the rest of the state Multnomah county could readily make use of one more Judge than we now have. However, be that as it may, for the better administration of the affairs of the Juvenile court it would seem that one Judge should have permanent charga of this Work and that the voters should be allowed to select such a Judge by having the designation of Juvenile Judge upon the ballot and voting for a can didate for this position. , FRED LQCKLEY. Lincoln. Stephen S. Wise In Pacific Monthly. 1 Not by virtue of accident rose Lincoln to the place of liberator of a race and saviour of a nation. The mission came to the man because he was the man for the mission. The umtttWtible privilege of breaking the shackles from off the hands of millions of slaves had to come to Abraham Lincoln, because of the destiny of his character this man of rugged strength of character, uncom promising conscience, unspoiled sim plicity of , heart, blameless purity of soul, whose was "the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real great ness." We are often reminded, and not with out Justlbe, . that there is nothing su premely great in American art or letters, that the contributions of America to the world's treasure stores are all material, such as the cotton gin and the steam press, the telegraph and steamboat, the telephone and harvester. If American letters have produced nothing, superla tively great, we have something super latively great to offer to history in the life of the founder of the republlo and in the life of him who was the saviour of the nation and the restorer of our national Union. We point to Lincoln, the man. . One Postal Bonk Benefit.. From Richmond Virginian. There Is one phase of the new postal savings bank which should go far to ward helping what is often a pitiable condition. It will be noticed that mar ried women's accounts and those of children are to be received by the gov ernment free from the interference and control of any person save the de? positor. The fiction of the married woman's entire subservience to her husband Is thus given a final blow by the nation. The more cruel fiction of the absolute right of the parent to the control of his child's property is even more thor oughly wiped out ' So far as the American government is concerned, there will be an ending of what might be called the padrone system in the family. It remains to be seen whether the oppressed of many humble homes will have the intelligence and courage to assert their natural rights. , Trade School for Girls. " From the New York Mall. That girls who serve an apprentice ship In a trade school are better fitted for Ufa than the society lasses and the unskilled business wotngti ls the testi mony xof Miss Helen, R. HUdreth, acting superintendent of trie Manhattan Trade SchOorrofGlrfS. 1111 '"" "" '""" Cafeful training and the habit - of sticking, to one line of work are given try Mlss- Hlldreth as .reasons for the success, of the girl apprentices. . : "To master a thlnar. thev sar. aren. erairy means to llA it" said Miss HU dreth. "X -find this to be true in nine Letters From tlie PeopIs EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1911. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE O. let's begin to get out of the mud. - Resignation Is Lorimera easiest way Abraham la still afflicted with Bourneophobla. . . - ' a "People push perfect . paving," re marks the Central Point Herald. f .-.', - . ' - Let it be . hoped that the names of the workers for good roads won't be Mud. , .... : -'- : Naturally, higher education in state supported institutions comes . high to the taxpayer. Most legislatures are right up to date, In the matter of helping along the high cost of living. , Senator Bailey ib serving the trusts, as usual. Texas will repudiate him at the next opportunity. ,v . . : ... Oregon Is also supplied with plenty of big caves, but somehow the out of date politicians don't retire te them. .,. When Roosevelt views the Roosevelt dam he may agree that It is big and Im portant enough to have been named for him. v Nobody had any doubt that, given an opporMinlty to cast a vote, vice Presi dent Sherman would vote against the people. . . It would e well if some of the oppo nents or good roaas tiaer to travel for a few days over some of the worst roads of Oregon. ..''.. , . The Democrats will retain the blind chaplain of the house, Rev. H. N. Cou den. His prayers have always- been vary short - Heyburn is a thoroughly consistent senator; he Invariably does whatever harm he can to his state, the west, and the country. ---.- k man out of work, and willing and wanting to work, should be aided to find work, if he cannot do so himself. There Is surely something for every such man to do. If practicable, a law making It lm- Sosslble or difficult for lunatics, ohll ren and other irresponsible persons to get possession of a gun, would be a good one. A statistician asserts that the auto mobile Industry in this country fur nishes a livelihood for 1,000,000 persons, but doesn't .say how many of them are physicians and hospital nurses. As Senator Brown of Nebraska says, everybody knows that Larimer knew about the bribery in his behalf. Argu ments that he was Ignorant of It are pettifoggery that would invite sneers in a police court Luke Lea, the new Tennessee senator, is a newspaper man, a six footer, only 32 years old, the youngest man ever elected senator, and what Colonel Wat terson declared to be an impossibility, a prohibition Democrat. A Lowell astronomer says Mars is the only planet besides the earth that Is Inhabited, and that life on Mars is very slight. Now let some professor who knows as little about It, as they all do, dlputs him, and the two sides will be even. The Oregonian alludes to a distin guished Democrat as "fussy Folk." There was something more than .fuss In the proceedings by which he convicted a lot of Bt. Louis and Kansas City graft ers and boodlera. It was not his fault that the Missouri supreme court freed them on trivial technicalities. Three fourths of the merchants in Seattle practice tho short weight swin dle, say government Inspectors, who also report Portland one of the most honest cities in the country in this respect It is to be Inferred that though Portland hasn't so many people as Seattle, they are of a higher grade of character. SEVEN FAMOUS RIDES Israel Patnom's Ride. When the news of the battle of Lex ington was conveyed from hamlet to hamlet In the New England district ltt brought all ,the patriots of that see tfpn to arms.' 'Israel Putnam, who was to figure prominently in the great con flict, was In his field ploughing when TTiioighbor informed him of the clash of April 9, 1776, between the British and Continentals near Boston. He left his plough In the furrow and., at the head of a band of fellow-farmers, Start ed for Cambridge. They arrived in time to take part In the battle of Bunker Hill, and It was Putnam who gave the hlstorlo or der, "Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes." At this time Putnam was already almost three score, and al though never a master of military science yet he became one of the most herolo and picturesque figures of the revolution. The best known, -and perhaps tho most daring feat in Putnam's checkered life was his tide down a precipice at West Greenwich. Conn. The Israel Knapp Inn at Greenwich was his head quarters during a part of 1779. On the 26th of February Putnam was staying at the Inn when he was surprised by a karge party of British and Tories under Generol Tryon. The story relates that the general, old gallant that he was, that night escorted a pretty maiden. Mistress Bush to a dance in a part of the town known as Pecksland. They did not return until late. He was shaving In the morning whm an American of leer, one Titus Watson, rode in and informed him o the approach of General Tryon. Putnam hastened to the Congregational meeting house and drove up his little body of Continentals. Resistance by such a small force was futile, and after the first volley, Putnam ordered his men to seek safety wherever they might find cases ouL.of ten. No one who Jumps from industry to industry, ifrom flrrS to firm, can attain as-good results as the - one who sticks to a definite field and, if possible, to-ene place. Every change sets one hack generally to be gin at the beginning. Naturally, Jt takes the changeable one much longer to climb the- ladder." ::' .. - As an exception to the rule Miss HU dreth said that the girls of her school, when obliged to start at the low wage of unskilled workers, advance 'with ra pidity. . -Upon graduation the trade school girls are supplied with positions and are kept In touch with. ' ; y i "It isn't easy always to locate a girl," said ths superintendent "She may, be a misfit' that is, an excellent worker and yet unable to do justice to her position, because she doesn't fit in Well with her surroundings. Then we find something else for her." Beautiful Words. " From the Boston Globe. , A prize for a list of the 25 most beau tiful ; words fnthe lSngllsh language, Judged according, to ; their beauty of eetmnbety-ef -meaTrlnglias- ftften awarded in New York, and here is the list of words: ("Melody, splendor, ado ration, : eloquence, virtue, innocence, modesty, 1 faith, Joy, honor, radiance, nobility, sympathy, heaven, love, divine. I hope harmony, happinea, purity lib- wty." X?o you remember tbajtory of -NEWS IH BRIEF ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS ' Another business building. seven, stories, is to be erected at Ontario, Monmouth creamery is doing a good business and has declared a substantial dividend. , Many people in Dallas and vicinity are establishing poultry and will raise more chickens.- , , A' company has Installed a - drilling rig at Alkali Springs, about nine miles northwest of Ontario, and will prospect for-oil in that district. - . Lucklamute co'resppndence of, Dallas Observer: Mrs. James Hlltlbrand has sweet peas growing in her yard that measure 120 Inches, or 10 feet, and are budded to bloom. , . "T - -Borne of the residents of Chehalem Center are thinking of planting o.ut large tracts of Loganberies and apple trees In the noarvfuture, also, of putting up a fruit drier. .::.4 , ;v,- r-:".j... Dallas Itemlxer: Backed by; experts In geology and oil 1 fields, we do not guess, but we know, that oil Is under neath us. and We are going to keep at It until we get -it in commercial quanti ties. if. -:i" ''vi';1, " Newberg-people are proud - of their water system, and thev also, says the Enterpise, have sufficient of purs mountain spring water, - and are con templating the attaching of several new springs to supply the rapidly increasing populace. , .j ,. y.-r -. ; : Hlllsboro Argus: David Reghitto, the one time Beaverton onion king, has brought suit- against his daughter, Rosa Reghitto Merlo, asking the cir cuit court t exact an accounting from the daughter. The complaint sets up that the property Involved is worth $75,000, and Is in Jtosa'S nam because he thought she could better handle the business, aa she. had been educated In English. t- 9-: Mentioning prospects of much im provement in that city, - the Sliver ton Appeal says: Things have taken a de cided change now and we are in a po sition to deliver the goods upon short notioe. Instead of saying we . Intend to, we can hereafter say Just look what we are doing and the signs of progress on every hand will be prima facie evi dence of our sincerity of the faith we profess In our town and country. .... . .. Within a week, at Falls City, one boy had a finger cut off with an ax; an other lad had his hand Injured by an exploding cartridge; a young man shot a hole through his finger; a third lad had his hand sewed up as the result of a knife wound; a team ran away, and an engineer jumped from his cab, thinking a nrreck was about to occur, and was injured; and a fire completely destroyed a rooming house, a restau rant and a pool halt . - Fox Valley "correspondence of Stay ton Mall: The people of this community are Just waking up, are beetcjiln-to Realize that they have one of the most beautiful, as well as productive little valleys in the state; there is now a movement on foot to make it like unto the Garden of Ec-n. . The people are organizing a fruit and vegetable asso ciation and intend to tro Into the fruit business. The price of land has doubled In the past five years and will undoubt edly double again In the next five years. . A Salem reader requests the reprint ing of this item: In 1909 the receipts of the Salem postoffice were $48,821. In 1910 the amount was $59,684. This is an Increase of 22.2 per cent. A table showing the business and Increases and decrqases of the first class postoffices of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana snows that there is but one post office In al this territory that shows for last ' year over the former year a greater percentage of Increase than the Salem office, and that is Great Falls, Mont., where the Increase was 28.8. Walla Walla, Wash., a city of 20.000 reople, received more than $10,000 less han Salem last year. it and himself started on a gallop to ward Stamford for reinforcements. A Quarter of a mile east of the church Is a precipitous and rocky bill, now known as Put's Hill. In it were cut steps, twenty-four, it la said in number. The British were confident that they had captured the, American general when they saw hlra sparring his horse towards the steps. They were mistaken. With reckless daring ha galloped his horse down the incline, turning in the saddle as he went shaking his fist and calling out defi antly: "God cuss ye, I'll hang ye to the next tree when I get ye." The astonuded jjragoons reined up at the head of the steps. All they could do was catch a glimpse of the "flying horseman." and look at one another in bewilderment Putnam -returned that day with reinforcements in time to cap ture a considerable number of the enemy. One of the eyewitnesses of the daring ride was Rose Fitch, an old slave '.wo man, who lived on the brow of the hill. She told the following story: "I was standing at the gate on the morning when the British raided the town, and I heard the flrinr near the Congregational church. As I looked down the road I saw a man riding up at a breakneck speed, Hardly a hundred yards behind him rode a dozen or more men in scarlet uniforms, "Across the brow of the hill ran a stone wall in which' there was an open ing at the point where a pathway reached the summit Leaving the main road the first horseman dashed straight through and down the pathway which was very steep and in which a number of steps were out The men who fol lowed reined up at the stone wall and were silent for a moment as if aston ished.. Then they fell to arguing with one another and later rode away.'1 , Tomorrow Sheridan's ride. the old lady who was complimenting Adam on the aptness with which he named the animals? : "Now "hog,?" she said. "Could he have possibly found a more expressive name than that?" ; ;,. ,f , ' Safeguarding the Children. -"Ever since the people of America be girt to hli-e in the' big cities there has been an "appalling increase in the pro portion of the population in prisons, hos pitals, asylums, and other eleemosynary institutions." sara a writer Tn tha our. rent Issue of Harper's Weekly, with ref erence to the : Child Welfare Exhibit which is be!nr hll lh New York city. It IS tO Counteract thin tf-nrlnn llH vitiation of the race that the exhibit was piannea, ana urn most attractive part-, of it Is the children themselves, "The time to build up worth while citi zens Is from babvhnrvi" mi want Tha city child must-' have pure air, enough pure iooa ana water, proper .Housing, warm clothing, : attractive and decent olav. or at his stftrvullntr moinrltv Tin will be a burden or a detriment to so ciety. "Don't call it philanthropy said one ofjthe jpromoters. jTtJsn'philan thr6pyr"Itrs Just raclarconimon sense.' " While great sums are being spent on .the Deciea-Gould wedding, thousands of people in the same city are. shivering and nearly starving, i Will conditions be evened- up "over -there?" : Perhaps they may be. little, even here, some time. - ; WcigLt and Measure ) From the Metropolitan Magazine .. It WOlild take an enovalniMritrf.' tn da. scribe all the tricks of tradesmen. But, even if the customer Is shrewd enough to detect all . the cheating that can "be done with' weights and measures before his eyes, he has only Just begun to pro tect himself. You - must reweiarh and remeasure on your , little home , outfit especially isucb goods as are not weighed and measured before your eyes. For It fraudulent selling In this country has reached its largest proportions. The carDenter buvs ten inch - rnnarh lumber and finds that it is only, nine ana one hair Inches wide. The painter pays for 12 pound, .25 pound and 60 pound palls of paint and they weigh much iess than that keg and : all. Spindles of gummed paper for sealing machines, sold as- 800 feet long, are from 100 to 150., feet less than . that Spools of thread, . rolls of ribbon and braid are four or five 'yards short of what they are marked. Sheetings, pil low aaes and linens are marked at a greater measure than their true one, Rubber goods are marked at a greater weight or a greater capacity than the real one. Your pint of whiskey is short by an ounce or 4 two. ' Your quart ot vinegar is put up in a bottle that con tains only 12 fluid ounoea Even the small boltlee of the druggist are ehort Inspector Wulfson In Indianapolis states that in the last four and a half years he has confiscated upward of IS,. 000 fraudulent measures and scales from tradesmen. Sealer H. A. Boyer In Har- rlSburg. Pa.! last anmmor aw clal investigation of small wooden fcerry poxes, jn tne enure city he would not find a single box containing a full quart Commissioner Clement J. T)rlscolK of New York city reported that In April, May and June, 1910, his lnspeotors vis ited 12.48 places of business. They condemned and rnnf1ct,1 on ' lng and measuring instruments. Nearly nir 01 inene were crudely and bare facedly fraudulent measures purposely made short, mostly with false bottoms; and false scales, weights plugged with putty, and the like. Yet only Tl of these seizures could be made the basis of penal-actions against the offenders. That's partly because, the inspectors haven't the power to arrest and also be cause the fact tha a dealer is selling from a wrongly adjusted scalers not according to law, presumptive evldenoe ojT Intent to defraud. TANGLEFOOT ' By M3ei Overholt -- IN SMALL DOSES. The same old fellow, who la looking for free medical advice, met the same old grouchy doctor, who is too wise to bite at a bait less hook. "Suppose. " doc," he said, "suppose a man should get sick out here on the street had a headache, ears ringing, teeth chattering what would you ad vise him to take, doer "A taxlcab," said the doo. An Eskimo named 'Wene," has written to a friend at Toledo, Ohio declaring that neither Pearv nor rook ill the pole. But we refuse to believe his siory uniu we near from "Ene," and "Mini" and "Mo." A Portland, Or., negro shot a brother who said to him: "Hullo, Smith." Though we believe the man should have been punished, we would not advocate such severe measures. He might have Good; Road Bogies. From The Wallowa Chieftain. There are many people who are never happy unless they are seelnar bodes. They imagine the direst results from the simplest causes. This is especially true about new and untried things like good roada Unless we are misinformed, none of the five good roads bills before the legislature takes the making and eon- iroi oi rpaas irom me county courts. Automobile speedways will not be built unless tha count v rnurt: nritura tha asm In fact there will be no change from I initiative. These bills simply provide ways and plans by which a eounty may build permanent roads if it wants to do so. A Slap at T. R, From The Milwaukee Wisconsin. Isn't the Outlook ingenious f Tho free transportation of President Lincoln from Illinois to Washington in 1880 la made a precedent for the Rooseveltian acceptance of railway generosity on a transcontinental scale. The Outlook does not say whether or not the Penn sylvania railroad carries unpaid bills amounting to ' upward of a hundred thousand dollars for Colonel Roosevelt's transportation to football games and on hunting expeditions. To charge this expense to "advertising" in the railroad's accounts would be inaccurate, for it was not the railroad that got the advertis ing It was the gentleman of the Big Stick. Got the Hook." ' ' From Boston Transcript; . "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" , "I'm going to Fishhook, sir," she said. "And where may that be,, my pretty maldf" ' -- "At the end of the line, you Jar said, C! airvoyance (Contributed to Ths Journal by Wlt Msion. tb fanjoui Knn poet. II U pruta-poemi r a regular feature ot thi column In Tb Dallr Journal). . ... n 1 1 1 .. ''","'4 I sought the parlors of the seer, and he wore vestments Weird and queer; he fiddled with a crystal globe, and had strange symbols on his robe. He mov.ed with sombre, stately grace, around thu Incense-reeking place.-. He said, in low. sepulchral tones: "You'll please cough up a pair of bones. Before I pierce the mystic shroud that hides the future from-the crowdbefore I penetrate the veil I always have to see the kale." I drew two dollars from my panes, and then ho went into a trajioe, and I could hear -hlra softly, lay;; "Your life will be both sad and gay. Some days with joy will be abloom, and other daya Will reck with gloom." The gods for you are storing wrath, and dangers lurk around your path, but you will triumph in the end, so loosen up again, my friend." "You are a cheap-John seer," I said; "the path described sll men must tread; all men meet danger as they go, and sll muRt sample: Joy and woe, and all will triumph at the last it they have nerve to-f scr'-tns"t)t8str-"Afid-thtnk" you that I'll let you keep my plunks, for prophe cies so cheap ?" I seized ' him by his Spangled robe, and soaked. him with his crystal globe, . and rummaged deftly through his Jeans, and robbed him of his ill-earned gains. " v Copyright, 110, br ' A JTf " Goorga, Matthew Adams. LVLI