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THE OREGON DAILY ' JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . THURSDAY EVENINO.; APRIL 20. 1911.
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DAILY AND SUNDAY.
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The flrat thlnar a man wants
to know and be sure of Is when
lis haa got enough. The land be
long to ta children of Nature.
Nature invites Into thla world
every babe that la born. What
would you think of me, for .a
Stance, If I Invited you hare
nobody had charged you any
thing, but you had been Invited
and when you got here you
found one man pretending to oc
cupy hundred seats, another
fifty, and another aeventy-five,
and thereupon you were com
pelled to atand up? What would
you think of the invitation
Entry child of Nature la entitled
to hla ahara of tha land. -In-geraoll.
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MEXICO
NOT DIRECTLY from the guc
cesses of the revolutionary
bands In northern Mexico, but
from the seething of revolt In
ether provinces, covering nearly the
whole domain of the republic, must
be found the grounds of the demand
for peace to unexpectedly announced
as coming from President Dlax and
bis remodeled cabinet. It la one
thing to suppress revolution when
government soldiers are many, ln
surrectog few,' and the area of dis
turbance limited. It la a vastly dif
ferent condition when troops can
not be withdrawn from their quar
tern to take the field for fear of im
mediate outbreak when the pressure
of their presence Is released.
Add to this state of affairs the rec
, ognitlon that by the continuance of
the state of actual, If not admitted,
war lives and property are daily lost
and destroyed, and that the financial
tending of the republic Is already
' undermined. Take Into account also
that the demands of Madero and his
lnsurrectos for a aew deal In govern
ment, and reforms In the ossified ad
ministration of Dial are not only just
in . themselves but are shared by a
large proportion of Mexican citizens,
and must be recognized as reason
able ,br uore than one member of
the new administration. Add these
facts together, and then remember
that the worst has not been told us
bat that a merciless censorship has
. been in farce throughout all the per
lod of the insurrection. Al! Indies
lions go to show that the hold of
Dias is r.ally far more shaken than
appears in the dispatches that have
leaked through the censor's veil.
Probably official denials of over-
. tures.from federalists an.. Insurrec
tos will : e plentiful. But facts are
stubborn. The disturbance of the
fabric of the Diaz government has
- been, and is, so violent that a return
t a the state of affairs before the war
cannot be reasonably expected. No
forecast can be absolute when all
facts are not fully disclosed, but It
- may be hoped that the list of killed
and wounded Mexicans by Mexicans
Is nearly closed.
ONE ALDERMAJTIC CANDIDATE
"F COURSE Fred J. Brady is
I I within his constitutional rights
1 when, offering himself as an
aldermanlc candidate, he
makes fair promises of how he would
perform If elected. But there was
another time when Mr. Brady made
.promises to Portland people who
still remember the performance he
aye.
On his promise that he would vote
for the people's choice for senator.
he secured election to the legisla
ture, but when it came time to vote
he rose in his place at Salem and
maae a speech of protest. That
speech was part of a plan concocted
by McHarg and others to beat the
people's choice, a plan that contem
plated a refusal by the United States
senate on account of the protests to
eat the people's chosen senator.
Any man who makes a public
promise and then protests against
keeping that promise, Is not fit for
public position. By his own deliber
ate act, Mr. Brady placed the brand
of insincerity and unreliability upon
himself, and he must continue to
wear it It disqualifies him com
pletely for the office of councilman
or any other public position.
house recently discovered that 38 j the effluent water li discharged Into
special policemen put on to prevent a river, harmless and Inoffensive,
blowing up of the capltol during; No chemicals are used. The agents
Spanish war tlm-8 wore still on fluty, j are bacteria. No costly pumps or
Thov were roating $39,000 a year, other apparatus are required. Once
but that the Spanish war la over and established only intelligent oversight
that there is no further need fr , of the Inflow to and the Outflow from
them had been overlooked by con-1 the tanks Is demanded. Results are
tress for a dozen 3 ears. Two telo- ascertainable by analysis at any time
graph operators, employed before tho
telephone came Into use, hud also
been overlooked. They bad bcenf
supplanted by the telephone years,
ago, but were still drawing salaries!
of $1400 each. Tho monetary com-1
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ten
LET T. It. ELABORATE
r
S RACE SUICIDE to become a na
ttonal Issue? The colonel Insists
thnt every family should have at
least four children, and Mrs
Th Cummins resolution is -Townsend replies that he Is -"a fool
In order and should be passed. lentnd a four flusher." Mrs. Brown
rnmrr. forcet lest congress forget. o mat me country is tnreatenea
a " I v . 1 1 . 1 1 -. ,. 1 . v ..
more Dy wie jiropnei wian uy uiu
! perils of raco suicide." One belllg
lerent woman declares "let Mr
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STILL AX ISSIE
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HE SAVING to the state by one Roosevelt arrange for the number of
convict camp working roads in children In his own family, but for
Washington was $S2,290. The henvon's sake let other families
work done by the prisoners is, alone."
placed by the highway commission-1 The question la so much discussed
er at $119,110. Tho expense of that reciprocity, "army maneuvers,"
maintaining the camp was $36,820. 'nnd the extra session are dwindling
The facts are pet out by tho Spo- issues. Svcry new utterance by the
kane Spokesman Review In proof of colonel is signal for new outbursts
the efficacy of convict labor In of resentment all along the line. Is
road building. They are In line with it all sign that race Sulde Is to
the testimony from all sources. They ( come up for rejection or adoption as
make all the more regrettable the a national policy?
foolish fight waged in the late Ore- j i8 it the plan to amend the natlon-
gon legislature over proposed good I al and the state constitutions? Shall
roads legislation, a fight that finally congress treat It under the authority
brought forth bills so full of defects of the war power, or is it to bo pro
and conflicts that all were finally j jeeted under some new form of State
vetoed by the governor. 1 ment One? Will party platforms de-
Convlct labor on the roads is both nounce race suicide and the yellow
practicable and profitable. It has j peril as twin evils that must be
the additional value of being a bet-1 shunned ;.nd for the prevention of
ter place for prisoners than partial which we "pledge our property, our
Idleness within the confines of alllvtfs Rnd 'tir sacred honor?"
prison. I What brand of nursing bottle will
The roads problem In Oregon did
not expire with the late legislature.
party platforms recommend to four
child families? What system of early
eminent by the gun will continue
without Interruption as long as there
Is wide-open sale of pistols.
There are gentlemen and colonels
In Kentucky who have no patlenco
whatever with the Mlssourlan who
lived to be 102 and says he never
tasted liquor.
In Pittsburg a youth of 8 Is to
wed a blushing widow of 83. She
hat $5,000,000.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
No.
Portland, Or, April 18. To tha Editor
of the Journal. Every little while I
aae aome one la arrested for violating
the tilna-hour law for women. Doee
thla law protect tha women and girla
working In private families? I did "gen
eral housework" a number of yeara and
never worked less than 12 or It houra
a day, aometlmea 18 how about It?
MRS. T. A. B.
Another Precedent.
To the Editor of The Journal I have
uat read In your paper an article headed
Precedenta of Commlaalon form of gov
ernment for Cltlea." Now my object In
writing thla is to call your attention to
Sacramento where thla forhi waa es-
tabllahed In tha early (0'a. There were
three truateea and I know that It waa
aucceasful fort a long time, but having
been away a long time, I am hoping you
can gtve later newa of aame.
A BELIEVER IN COMMISSION FORM.
SMALL CHANGE '
If vmi llvail hank eaat Toll would al
ready be worrying about tha price of
ice:
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Colonel Roosevelt, having "had every
thing," la In the Alexander tha Great
cla... m ,x
Half a million for Rembrandt's "Mill?"
Why, that'a mora than the one at Reno
coat Tex Rlckard.
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In view of earlv promise, there Is thla
distinction awaltlna the present Demo
cratic house, thst If It falls to do any
thing the country will be disappointed.
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If you have never lived In a cyclone
country, you would be aurprlsed at the
vandalism practiced by rello hunters
that awarm upon the cyclone s trail next
day.
WW
Haa none of those press correspond
ents In Franca ever read the storv of the
Uordon rlota In "Barnaby Rudge?"
Mighty' fine stuff there for use In a
story about wasted boose.
More steel shipped toOklahoma than
to any other state, la tha boast of an
Oklahoma City paper. One would think
that reinforced concrete would have a
still better chanca in a cyclone.
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Men folks In a Michigan town have
organised a Grouch club and nave hired
a hall. Which, In theae daya of collec
tivism, mav be the first step In a
movement for municipal walling placea.
. a a
Quarter of million bottle of cham
pagne smashed at Vlxy! flrrat Nep
tune! think what a naw and what a
merchant marine we might have had If
that lm.l all been used for christening
purposes.
That usually exact newapaper, the
New York Evening Poet, rerelsts In er
roneously sucking the initial "K" Into
the midst of William I.orlmer'e name,
which moves the lnoulrv, What harm
haa capital "e" ever done the Toat?
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Most newapaper funny men In para
graphing aidestep "a." "an" and "the"
OREGON SIDELIGHTS , , ,
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Corvallui council has voted to pave4
alx blocks on Ninth street. In tha resi
dence district.
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A Marehfteld company la ' figuring
with the town council or Bandon on a
paving contract
Of. 1 T.
From th Chicago Post
Thar. Is another; 'slld8' at Panama.
When tha lock or sea level type of canal
was an issue before tha country theae
"slides". In tha Culcbra cut used , to have
tha political Importance of a party land
ltd In a national election. Now thoy
Since tha change of ownership took fare not played up so strongly. Yet
place Radium Springs, In Baker county,
r 1 1 J I I.I II... an4nwa
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Woodvllle la to have a newapaper. L
very once' In a while aome mournful
minded cltlsen announces that owing to
tha constant sliding and breaking In the
A. Hammeraley. foreman of the Gold ' towering aldea of the cut the canal will
Hill newa, will undertake tha enterprise, , never be finished, or, If It Is finished.
Wallace R. Htrubla, formerly publicity
manager of the Albany Commercial
club, la now booatlng at Port Angeles,
Waah. -
will never be safe.
The" latest "little break." aa the dlfl-
.kAjtb...-. It I . . I I .. 1. - - I .
Amivuv call ii, arvuruing'X irinnra
worth ' while to recall Ue authoritative
verdict upon the whole subject, paaaed
Eaater Sunday waa observed at the by Colonel George W. Goelhala, in hla
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It Is still an Issue, and will remain 1 training Vlll campaign spellbinders
an Issue until the highways are advocate, and will they advise the
brought Into a state of effectiveness use of paregoric when In the silence
more In keeping with the otherwise : and solltudo of the night, parents
advanced conditions in this commonwealth.
BUT rOUTLAXD'S SAFE
j:i
6igh for peace, peace and there Is
no peace? When Infantile colic Is
at its height and tho air thick with
baby's screams and father't impreca
tions, will the party press advise that
daddy administer soothing syrup, or
walk the floor with the little one
HERE J trouble everywhere.
Lorimer holds his seat, and
Dias won't resign. Tho Japs!unt)1 the roM grav dawn of the
are planning u.e capture 01 , mornnK omes ani wltb )t that tired
Tlmbuctoo, and the United .States Is j felng?
bent on race suicide. It costs $4 0 to
As a national policy rac suicide is
buy $10 worth of woman's headgear, j fu of weIghty possibilities, and a
and the plague Is still rampant lnwai;lng country listens for further
v.nina. mere is rovo.uuon in - me elaboration of details by the colonel.
Turkish empire, threat of a republic
In Spain and the chaopagne is all
being poured out In France.
The crime of '73 Is still unpun
ished and the cost of government
everywhere Is . mounting constantly.
All over, the Imps of perdition are
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
T
LEST CONGRESS FORGET
I
T WOULD BE discretion for the
resolution calling for a final re
port and dissolution of the mon-
. ... ..ir, ij ivmuiiMiuu ig yuug. ine
' eommktlnn haa haan In n-rlatn
" ... t.i.) o
eintje 2808. - It has had three years
In which to reach conclusions. Thev
have been years of Inertness for
most of the members, but years of
activity by the chairman and vice-
chairman. No meetings of the whole
body, have been held,; save of the
most perfunctory kind. !
All; members of the commission
'iraw jialarles. " They. have drawn sal
i, arles. for three years. They draw
tant members have dragged Europe
for f In formation. - - They, have rum
maged WaUHtreet, They nave probed
finance and sounded monetary laws
' to the depths. . ...
. fCongrest la forfetfuL, v The? new
HE VOYAGERS in all steam-
Rhips plying to porta 200 miles
dlBtan, from each other and
carrying passengers will rejoice
abroad In the land, and under every ! at the coming into force on July IB,
sky the forces of vice are gnawing I next, of the act passed last year re
at the vitals of the social body. j quiring the equipment of all such
But, Portland Is safe. Thanks to : vessels with wlroloss instruments,
the wisdom of the'eounty court, this So many demonstrations have been
town is Impregnable to the hosts of given of the life-saving effects of
sin and destruction. The Japs may i this marvelous apparatus by sum
capture and hold Tlmbuctoo for a moning aid for sinking ships that it
ransom, but Portland will remain became only a question of time when
unharmed. Paddy Maher is a mem- the installation should be made ob
ber of the county corrt'o official llgatory.
family, rnd alls wcil.t
GETTING RID OF STUMPS
The only objectors, probably, will
be found In two classes, first
those parsimonious ship owners who
grudge all expenses for their vessols
beyond those of absolute necessity,
and, second, those over wearied peo-
char-pitting or coal-pitting pro- : -" "lr Z'i:. IT,
mm a . . , , a VI IV . A a VIA T V.Will IX 1 l V 1 I U
8.8;. ?e Profesor on Great excitement. For wireless maintains
muniieru uvaionsirnuoa irain are
T
HE WASHINGTON state college
is currying on a propaganda for
clearing land of stumps by the
The Portland Library.
Portland, Or., Apr. 17. To the Editor
of The Journal Will you kindly tell me
what training muat be taken to become
librarian in Portland? Also, what la
the usual. aalary of a gpod librarian?
MARIE SMITH.
An applicant for poaitlon In the Port
land library muat eitber be a graduate of as Initial worda. Too many simply
recognlied school for librarians or must 1 omit them, however, and leave tne re-
comply with the following regulatlona: i to luck. Ktnaiy onserve tne ei.-
An anamination Is held yeirly-the next 1 w.',nt hT.nWu'm "y"
..n k t.-v.,.. , o..w canned In thla colyum.
Will UV IIUUOUJ 111 ( BUI UW , 191. OUW
jecta for examination are general hla- xhnhln of 0eor Ooul(1 not a
tory. general literature, current, toplca , ate gut aa A r,ma ,port wn0 nBS
of interest. After passing examination ' for yeara been fighting to realiae his
the applicant entera the apprenticeship d renin of an ocean-to-ocean rill way, one
class for six months. Then the passed can t help wishing his victory of Tues-
Ubrarlan receives pay beginning at $55 I nav may open the wav for him to bent
a month, and rlaea by merit. Usually ; I" YwoIve8 'croM North Amer
.v.,.-- .n.. . v. i 'lea. arier nil.
inoiB i m inuiv .yiiLaiJva iiiii jiiam.
But room haa ao far been found for all
successful examinees of promise.
Methodist church at Uonania, Klamath
county, with am old-faahloned basket
dinner.
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Seniors and jnnlora of the Baker high
school presented the play "The Captain
of Plymouth" Monday night to a crowd
ed house.
V Tha Etie-ena Reglater la boosting for a
beet sugar factory and eaye there should
be 'no trouble to get the farmers to
ralae the bceta.
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Governor West haa promised the neo-
nU nf RnMMhiir that ha will attend thalr
. V It Ulm ,..1... I
do not Interfere,
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Albany Pemocrat: Counting the rebate
Sheriff Smith has collected tS4,S8.Jl
of tho $422,887,011 of the 1811 tax roll.
The balance la $67,947.31.
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Members of tha Ladles' auxiliary of
tho centennial committee have aaked
the Astoria council to purchase a dump
ing ground for the common use of the
city. . ,
Miss Mabel E. Glllett. teacher at
McKay Marlon county, haa her 1 pupils
at work on little farma. IS feet long
and three feet wide. Two of the boya
are ralalng alfalfa.
Uat month before the National Geo
graphical aoclety In Washington. .. . Jt
rune In part aa follows:
"There are, all told, nine "alldea" and
"breaks" to be reckoned with, and there,
la nothing to do but to remove all the
material embraced within their limits,
Aa therut la deepened theae may be ag
gravated or others may dovelop. There
la no method known to atop or prevent
them.
"Tho Culebra cut haa therefore devel
oped Into the uncertain and experimen
tal feature of the work, and Its com
pletion will mark the date of finishing
tha canal, iso apprehension ia felt be
cause of -the condition, of unstable
equilibrium that results from the cut
ting; when ra.de la reached equilibrium
will be established, and tha back prea
are of tile water will reault In greater
atabllity.
"Whatever alldea occur subsequently
will be relatively email and the material
earniu ramy uanuiru Djr aienm buutbis
on the teroia that will be left, and by
dredgea that, will be available."
Here la the whole atory. It If not
told in brlght-hued generalities. The
moat uncomfortable facta are aet forth
plainly.
But It la made reasonably clear by
Colonel Ooethala that there la an ultt-
By way of beginning at the bottom,
the city council of Ralem haa decided to
Hofor trtaln annmvrtl navtna fin1 ra
tions until next year, that subsurface j mato way out of the difficulties.
improvements may be put in rtrat.
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Oold Hill News: The county court
has accepted the plans for the Bla Butte
bridge near Derby and the Upper Sanva
Valley bridge across the Romie river and
contracta were let to the Columbua
Bridge company for $8000 and $12,000
respectively.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
How Long?
Portland, April 18. To the Editor of
The Journal How long will perennial
sophistry continue to chloroform our;
minds? How many more railroad colli- i
siona due to overworked crewa, ho
many more
and Inferior
SEVEN MARVELOUS BOYS
Pierre Gassendl.
overworked crewa, how i . .v. .,,n,
mine horrors due to cheap tur fllblts on of t,h,e m
construction of shafting. 1 Instances of the precocity of the hur
bringing the knowledgo to the doors
of the people.
The Washington college has dem
onstrated that stumps, three to four
feet In diameter, have been burned
out at a cost of from 23 to 50 cents
each, reckoned in terras o dr y labor
for the man who did the work.
Considering that the land clearing
a constrnt bridge between sea and
land and seclusion on the ocean is a
th.'ng of the past.
THE LUCERIC
T TAKES TEN trains of 50 cars
each to load the 15,000 ton ship
now In the Portland harbor.
Portlanders can look back at the
problem confronts every settler in time when a veRsel of 16 17 fpet
the Willamette valley and the foot- j araft often bad difficulty In reaching
hills on either side, and In al! the l this city. It has been their work
coas- counties, and that the abolish
lng of stumps has been carritd cn
by brute force and dynamite at fuuy
double the cost named for the burn-.
lng process, It -is to be expected of
the State Agricultural college at
Coivallis that no time will be lost
in teaching Oregon farmers this sim
ple and effective method.
While Washington papers have
through the Port of Portland com
mission that has wrought the change.
The comparative ease with vhich
a deepened channel has been secured
is omen of the further improvement
that can be made. The size of the
Lucerlc Is In the hugeness of its bulk
and carrying capacity, demonstration
of the returns that are to be gar
nered by adding to the efficiency of
Pierre Gassendl, who flourished In
the middle of the seventeenth cen
trlking
man
Intellect. "At the age of 4 years, says
Triangle Waist company's fire the Bernler, "he used to declaim his little
abysmal event which caused the death acrmona. At the age jof 7 he used to
of 150 girl toilers, who were unable to steal away from hla parenta and spent
escape because there was but one fire ! a greater part of the night In observing
escape and that ccllapsed aa soon as a the atars. This made hla friends say
small weight was brought to bear on it? : that he was born an astronomer. At
How many more times must the country , this age he had a dispute with the boys
be plunged in mourning before it comes of the village whether the moon or the
to realize that the desire for dollars Is clouds moved. To convince them that
the cause of all these cataetrophlesT the moon did move h took t hem behind
That a system founded on profit will 'tree and made them take U hat
fire escapee of Inferior tnaterlal and lite n, , disposition to observation
preserver such aa those, which sank on th t of tne Frenoh youth. In-
like so much lead in the General Slocum aueed nlg parents to cultivate his tal
dlsaster. In which 400 Uvea wer(ntl; and the .clergyman of his village
snuffed out. g.ave nlm tne first elemer.ta of learning.
Apologlzera for the present system ! His ardor for study became then ex
tell us that conditions In aoclety are treme. The day was not long enough
Ideal; that only he lazy and drunkards for him. and he often read a good part
are obliged to auffer. If perchance this of the night by the light of the lamp
letter should meet the eyea of one of that was turning In tne church in his
the courtlera pf capitalism, I earnestly . village, his family being too poor to al-
tmtreat that he oxplain for the benefit low him candles for his nocturnal
of Journal reader why an advertise- i studies. He often only took four hours
ment in a New Tork paper calling for a f sleep. At the age of 10 he harangued
quart of blood from a healthy man and blsnP ,n I-at,n wh0 passed through
offering to pay $25 for aame ahould Oassendra village 0B,rf.hVl-aV til! nJl
have met with 100 response.. Dullard. ?" " 'p 2
Itt ItJ QAl 1CL11II Cll, . ".I MV, na.., .
and drunkards are not anxious to give
or other, be the wonder of hla age!"
up any of the life fluid for any consld- j "mo7est and unaaiuming conduct
,u,j,of Ga,8enJ1 gave an additional charm
enough to be choatn' waa thua enabled 1 10 nlB taienta. He complained." says
to pay a month's rent for hia family, i gt Evremond, "that nature haa given
Sut what about the next month and the I Buch degree of extent to our curios
month after that? What about the I tYi ana gUcn very narrow limits to
hundred othera who were not chosen?1 our knowledge. Thla, he assured me.
Where are their wivea and their children 1 he did not say to mortify the presump-
to obtain bread, let alone clothes and tlon of any person; or from any affected
shelter? How long will the righta of
man be subordinated to those of prop
erty? Oh. Lord! How long? Oh, Lord!
How long? I. MEIROVITS.
humility, which is a kind of hypocrisy.
He did not pretend to deny but that he
knew what might be thought on jnany
Biibjeets, but he dared not venture to
affirm that he completely understood
any one.
Uassendl waa in general allent, never i
ostentatiously obtruding upon otnera
either by the acutenesa Of hla under
standing or the eloquence of hla con
versation; he wa. never in a hurry to
give hla opinion before he knew that
of the peraon who. were conversing
with him. When men of learning Intro
duced themselves to him he waa coa
fented with behaving o them with great
civility, and waa not anxloua to aurprlse
their admiration. The entire tendency
of hla studies was to make himself
wiser and uetter, and to have hla inten
tion more constantly oefore hla eyes, ha
had inscribed ail hla books with theae
worda. "Sapere aude."
Gaasendi waa born of poor parent, at
Champtercler, France, on the 22d of
January, 1692. He had advanced ao far
In learning that when he waa IS yeara
of age he was Invited to lecture on
rhetoric at the College of Digue. He!
meanwhile applied himself with seal to
the study of the natural sciences that
were taught In hla day, and was espe
cially Interested In astronomy and anat
omy. Later the philosophy of Gassendl wa.
In such request that the savants of that
time were divided Into Cartesians and
Gassendlat.. The two chlefa alwaya en
tertained the highest respect for ench
other, and were at one time on the
friendliest terma. Gaasendi ranked Kep
ler . rid Galileo among his friends, and
wa. himself the Instructor of Mollere,
He died October 14, 1655, while profea-
sor of mathematics in the College Royal
de France, at Parte.
BSffi)
Tomorrow Blaise Pascal.
A Woman's Point of View.
dlctiinea than from all other evil, com
blned.
Modern lawyers manifect leas and
less regard for the principle, of the
Hood Hlver, Or.. April 18. TO ITaIv Brlnt,i. Thev rnn fnrm.ilnte
the Editor of The Journal While
rules and principles without laborious
. . ... . . . . . ..... n ...
ine inuiawve ana reierenaum may oe , reBfarch: if an employer use up a
bearing in the main good reaulta, it la machine, h9 mu,t make good the loss,
to be regretted the majority of the vo I lf he us9 up laborer he ahould make
rru ! isregvn. i me last election, aia , rnnA the loas." In the BUDOoaed ex-
not make themtelvc. more familiar with tending of a favor the laborer la placed
inose questions wnicn .noma nave a upon the mercenary level of a chattel.
large hold on the American people, via: t political corruption and the greed for
been scouring the country for the , the harbor and the channei to the
nistory or tne new invention and sea other vessel j. like the Luceric
printing column long accounts or ! wI11 com to Portland, nqt.only frprja
their discoveries, the name of Colonel
Thorpe of Corvallls is no where seen.
Yet he Invented, practiced and print
ed full accounts of coal-pitti.,, many
years ago, and certainly for tea years
pa., it has been known and practl-aJ
in Benton and Lincoln counties.
the Transpacific, but from the trans
canal trade when the great work at
Panama Is completed
Even in Portland there is an oc
casional family that will be made
nervous by the news that an Iowa
dnotne waa turret nnA faatharaA Vz
WHY NOT PURIFY THE SEWAGE? other day becau3e he and h,g w,fe
didn't harmonize.
M
AYOR SIMON, Assistant City
Engineer Hurlbnrt and
Councilman Ellis, having
struggled with the problem
how to dispose of the sewage of the
Peninsula without polluting and
poisoning the Columbia slough, have
arrived, it Is announced, at a solu
tion. This ' Is to build a "sanitary
sewer" to discharge into the Colum
bia river, and an independent over
flow sewer to drain into the Colum
bia slough.
Before these experts commit them
selves to this proposal, and under
take to father it
Because his veracity was ques
tioned, a member pf the Illinois leg
islature beat another over the head
with a cane the other day. And It
was in an Illinois legislature, too.
But for the fact that he knows
something about officialdom himself,
the threats b" the district attorney's
office of what It is goln& to do to
him would alarm Dairy Commission
er Bailey.
I he temperance and suffrage question.
It is difficult to understand why wo
men ahould not have the aame Courtesy
r.nd kindcesa shown them in thla great
state of Oregon aa waa exhibited in
Washington, our sister state. And in
referring to the temperance issue, the
intelligence of women- over men in what
constituted the "home rule measure"
waa clearly apparent In my own com
munity. If woman should be allowed
to vote on the Installment plan I very
much fear the last would be the liquor
question, requiring about four decades
to reach. The writer doe. not aasume our
brothsiH are entirely to be censured for
this delayed justice. We have substan
tial reason, to believe there la a class
of women in our state who alt in their
easy chair. Claiming they have all the
privileges they want. (Seemingly, to
work for humanity is foreign to thir
nature.) Our voters should conaldcr
with more approval the lifters, not the,
leaners, not the parasites but the glean-
gain have in "great measure dulled and
deadened patriotic instinct, and a re
suiting disgust ha. Inclined us to con
sider the abandonment of legislation
by the deliberative assembly In favor
of the initiative and referendum sys
tem of lawmaking in which each voter
la required to perform the work of a
Judiciary committee In the polling
booth.
Now, in the beginning, thla new sys
tem seems easy and. plausible and we
feel our conceit and Imagine we are a
state full of jurlats; but we shall soon
discover there 1. much in our Oregon
system which needs muat be righted.
Its natural tendency is to divide the
people and eliminate official responsi
bility. It la trending toward absolut
ism and tha exercise of arbitrary
power.
To test the validity of the rule of the
majority which la "the consent of the
governed," let u. assume that the ma
jority of a community decreed the
era. When so many men do not know I death an 'n"0,0" citizen known to
how to cast an intelligent ballot, ask-1 be Innocent and la abiding. Could
lng the help of othera to arrange it, is it ! Yen the nan,nJ" consent of the peo
not about time women of Intelligence Ple"ver.me tn?j urp,t.ud,e, "I" a
should ba allowed more action? But , 1 ' "'
there ia one problem even we woraon c . - "r "
cannot comprehend. When, by popular "' " u'""""fcu "V 7n
i. t., k. v. ji " I Agulnas so defined .uch a law 600
r e'"! hfnr Mr Rlarkatn
HACK TO THK FARM Vf.
I'm the oniy-gujr
On earth, I
guess.
Who doesn't ory
For an Easter
dreaa.
And three months
off
To loaf and fish;
And I've no cough
To back my
wish.
For I cannot awaar
When aprlng ap
pear. That a doctors
care
And a doctor's
fears
Make It a cinch
That I must
a-wlnc
And roll and clinch
With pretty
aprlng.
I'm a hum-drum
guy.
And blrda mav come.
And swallowa fly.
And bees may hum.
But I go on
And 3o my stunt,
So help me, John,
1 never hunt
Fur a good excuse
To quit my Job;
There is no use
To wall and sob,
And prate about
The country', charm
And then co out
And grab a farm.
The town ltaelf
Suits me O. K.
I get my pelf
On each pay day,
And I see the sun,
And hear the been,
And I have my fun.
And see the trees,
And that's enough.
Long years ago
I tried the bluff
With a working hoe
And It made me tired.
And sick and faint,
I near expired,
That's why I ain't
Bo stuck on spring
With Its Joyous cheer;
That's why 1 sing:
"I'm glad I'm here."
Tom Johnson's Epitaph.
From the Chicago Trlbuno.
In hia lifetime Ton-. Johnson of Cleve
land expressed a wish. It remains after
him." It will outlast the memory of
lzes with the conceptlona of juatlce. everything that Johnson did or tried to
No wonder that Mr. Gladstone pro- do' Here is this w,h:
, i . . ,. . . ,...., . "When T rile I hone the naonle. will
iiuunceu n lu uo iu itiuhi wunuenui - .
inatrnmont v, tnixir ntt ir a iHv.n make a playground over my body. ITl
time by the purpose and the brain of i would rather have the children romping
man." ! over my grave than a hundred monu-
Thoma. Jefferson wa. a great and
good man. Hla fame i. rightly recog.
vigilance 1S the price of liberty,
JAMES B. CARR.
ment.,"
To have such a wish 1. better than
nlzed when we apeak of "the age of success. To be remembered for such a
Jefferson." If he were alive today ha wish la to outlast memorial, of bras, or f
would cry "trumpet tongued." TOu are .tone. Omar, the tentmaker,. wished
drifting from the constitution return that he be laid where the summer wind
to it. Revere and preserve it. Eternal , mlaht scatter the netals of rosea ovar
him, "by aome not unfrequented garden
side." Johnspn's desire 1. not unlike
this, but nobler.
And Johnson .poke not only for hlm
aelf, but In tha spirit of hi. time. -
year.- before Mr. Blackatone waa born.
In the English house of 'common, on
It Is a relief to bo assured bv the
..... .. v
oeiore tne city . district attorney that it is tha bus!
li i.i an i .
council, iney win QOUDueS3 welcome ! nss of th nolico tn cnntrr.1 vim In
suggestion that in the Portland 11-1 Portland. Thore has hoon ' nnTnWw.-
brary will be found, among much!Bion that It is nobody's business.
awer literature on me suDject, ar
ticles by Professor A. Marston, of
Ames, Iowa, In "Municipal Engineer
ing," vol. 35, dealing with the con
struction and use of septic tanks.
The dates are July and December,
1808. They set torth the most mod
ern developments and possible ex
tensions of what Is described as a
simple, inexpensive and effective
meaus of purifying sewage, on a
large aa well ka a small scale, before
The Washington Post is authority
for the statement that S. takes a
man on a 25-ccnt scat in the bleach
ers to tell a $600 pitcher how to
run the anro'$K
Last night's bold, robbery of a
Washington street jewelry store
while the thoroughfare was crowded
was accomplished without difficulty
I Jr '...! i
pj uieaua ui me realty revolver, uot
roads teemed to be an established fact.
: . . ' -no o,eft.ton.. Edmund. Burka exnostu-
E2JC?" "Ly not your hands upon the
constitution. The eternal , and immu-
fected, only to be killed by the governor's
veto. Many may ask with some show
of reason, by what method of procedure
can th:. body ba abolished or suspended
an Indefinite period lf the referendum
is of more value, which we still insist
is far preferable. We only wish the
honest voters would spend more of thir
time in Investigating the different meas
ures. Those which affect the home
life should receive the first attention.
JULIA A. HUNT.
. . J
Thomas Jefferson.
Portland, April H.To the Editor of
The Journal Yesterday in your tribute
to the memory of Tlma.JefexaoH,
the father of American Democracy, you
speak In term, of unqualified approval
of what may (b-regarded as the first
principle of the eighteenth century :
"Governments derlva their Just power
from the consent of tha governed," It
i. right and proper to carefully, teat
first principles, a. nation, auffer more
from the evil affects 'of falsa political
table principles of Justice which were
not made by you nor by any of our
vain institutions, and whtjih you can
not lawfully Ignore." Something more
than the consent of the governed is es
sential to the- validity of our action and
'the major premise muat be recast to
comprehend and include It Our action
muat be in ccord with these eternal
principles. "Every good and perfect
gift 1. from God." Thla la a statement
pf the truth aped at In the declaration;
Man derives tba right to govern from
God through the : law. of nature.
Neither nullification nor secession can
follow
ment of the truth. Tha war of the re
bellion waa. the fruit of the false doc
trine, . .-A. th officer, must not exoead
the. lawful limitations 'of his authority,
o our fundamental constitutions must
not contravene the media of bur light
o Institute government
. But the Declaration of , 'independence
la not our constitution. j Tniflcon.utu-
Alas, Those Jips.
Paul West In New York World.
Why ia our army down In Texas
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
Why do the trusts persist and vex us?
Didn't you know! THE JAPS!
Why can't the Crime Wave be put down?
wny ao tne croons iniesi our townr
Who Invented the Harem gown?
uian t you xnowi this jAjfs!
How did the Phillies beat the Pliant.?
Dldn t you know? THE JAPS'
Why do the "apeca" still show defiance?
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
Why thoae wine riot. In southern
France?
Why do our living bill, .till advance?
And who taught Cummin, his high
nnancer
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
Who pushed the Prlnse.s Irene on
, snore r
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
Why does Central Park bloom no more?
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
Who put Lorimer in his seat?
Wny has the Interborough beat
All plana for subways, beneath tha
Didn't you know? THE JAPS!
For It's oh, those Japa! Tho.e terrible
Japs!
Wherever they go they spread their
'traps.
They've, got the world In their hidden
anares;
They've caught the universe unawares.
in o uouoi it never can oe aemea
Rectifying a Mistake.
From the Detroit Freen Press..
Once in the Illinois legislature there
were two men, Montague Harrison and
Harrison Montague. The first wa. very
short, the second very tall; but the
speaker, during debate, once addreaaed
the former as the latter.
' He recovered himself, however, qulok-
ly. He .aid with a chuckle:
"It la atrange that I ahould take
Harrtaon Montague for Montague Har
rison that I should make such a rrfls
taka as that for' there Is aa great dif
ference between you two gentlemen -a.
there Is between a horse chestnut and a
chestnut horse."
Morals and CLickens
(Coo tribute J t Tb JounnI by Walt Uaaoo.
tha famous Kaniaa port. Lin proaa-poama are a
regular laatura ei una column iu ma uauy,
Joorual).
There lived a man tn someone's town
his name need not re written down
who talked and preached of right and
wrong, and always stood for virtue,
strong. He liked to show the shining
way to every guy who roamed astray.
I s the Japs that are backing our good and ho ws ful1 of texts and Baws- and
It's the Japs who've nana ged by some I who heard him talk and preach would
.,,deyie8 'm . . - (always say ha was a peach. His next
L.lLaiL2lH1J,e?l.KueiJui, 'vice door neighbors didn't rise to boom and
And you want to Took" Mt foTtt. JS P"1"" hlm t0 the akles. They said: I.
1
the Jap.I
( Naturally Blum.
From the Boston Transcript s
- Reporter (at door of mansion) There
is a rumor that Mr. Greatman has just
died. I. this true? . '
Butler Tea; out ha ha nothing to
a .clallam frmvhlstatefay-fo!l-PaW1atiH'
! , , A Correction. .. -'.
' - From Judge.
Are men born free and squat," ' re
marked the politician.- .v.. -
"They'ra born equalV ob. erred .the
father of eight -voters, Tut they're not
bnm free.- For everyone of xaitimA bad
to pay tha doctor $10.M -
chicken, coma and scratch the stuffing
from our garden patch; he knows they're
driving u. to drink, he knows what all
his neighbors think, and yet he lets
hi. doggone hens go aklting blithely
from their pens to knock our, gardens
upside down- he Is the meanest skate. 10
town." Tho world 1. atocked with noU
emnraudijUio-danrtmd.flg
gauds and -platitudes and good advice.
and helpful hint, fresh off the Ice; they
wag their Jaws and wield their pene--and
let their neighbors fight the hens.
To treat your neighbors right will count
for more than any gro.a amount Of
bulging words wnen wo are called, and
to the bar. of judgment hauled.; .
Oeerga Mattaaw Adama. LQjJlJl aat '
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