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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY ' MORNING. AUGUST 6, 1911. '
THE JOURNAL
AIT I KDEPKKDEtrT MtWBPAPEn.
C. S JACK90N.
ent generation of pupils and students
In our schools and colleges know but
little of the Bible. . - .
A queer proof of this was pi Ten
ithe other day in a magazine article
contributed by a professor In a well
known college. He submitted to a
a. I1..H - m a a. . . a
Karens at the Matorflre at Portland Or., voluntary collection or 10 BUiaentS,
-, fnr ir.n.miMioo tbruufh tb mull stand-, n which seniors, sophomores. Inn-1
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1 lors and freshmen were represented.
say tha. young; drl'iK father was made! many got the great, territory in' the! White's
vPiMUIiuf XiJ evanlnf (rpt Sunday) and
wyfnbdr mwnlnf at Tlia Journal Balld
lM. Fifth and Yamhill atrwta. Portland, Or.
very .weary by our "Abe's" letter, j southeast portion of the. continent,
We do not doubt It. " They say he , now called ."German East Afrira "
and on the west; coast the tropical
, eiaa nailer.
cauea our "Abe" a "shrimp." Very
likely. "That Is a habit of Indignant
fathers.- .', ; " '
They say he ivaved the letter over
his head, and, in the presence of
many others, tried to involve our
congressman In a fight, but that our
"A.ra;"7; TSZtfiZ thnnri: written questions, dealing dashing bachelor was formerly from
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What we do upon some great
occasion will probably depend
on what we already are; and
what we are will be the result
of previous year of self-diaci-pline.
H. P. Llddon.
LET THE OREGON LEAD
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'ell tba operator what department yog want, j with Bible places, persons and
events. The questlonc were as sim
ple as could hardly have failed to be
correctly answered by the children
In an ordinary Christian family
thirty years ago. But the college
students, with hardly an exception,
blundered wildly In their written
answers. The fewest errors came
from one or two students who were
the sons of clergymen of various de
nominations. But John the Bap
tist and John the Evangelist, and the
Apostles generally, were badly
mixed. St. Paul's epistles were evl
dently unknown books. Events In
the history of our Lord were gro
tesquely bungled. The stories of the
old testament, which used to be told
at, the mother's knee to the little
ones, were forgotten or unknown,
The basic facts of the Christian re
ligion found no place ip the memor
ies of these young men.
These boys may have been excep
tions. But the professor declared
that the experiment was honestly
made, and the choice of the class
hap-hazard from the mass. v
It seems thai in their caBes the ex
clusion of the Bible from school and
college had been completely carried
out.
Sunday schools abound, of course.
and there the Bible is the text book.
But modern notions close the doorl
of the school behind the mass of stu
dents at an early age. As a rule the
art of forgetfulness of its lessons Is
successfully practiced, and the col
lege students quoted are rather the
rule than the exception
j Missouri and Insisted
on sbelng
T WOULD BE fitness for the bat
tleshlp Oregon, at the proper mo
ment, to lead the great marine
pageant In the opening of the
Panama canal.
Other sea fighters may be of more
ponderous proportions. Others may
, loom with more impressing outline
on human vision. Others may have
a longer roll call in their comple
ment of men, and an armament of
weightier and more numerous guns.
' .But, of all the ships that ever
: called the sea, of , all the fighting
machines that ever cleared for ac
.tlon, not one In all history has a rec
ord M sailor or fighter that equals
that of the good ship Oregon.
The most inspiring feat in naval
annals was the Oregon's run around
Cape Horn and her dramatic partici
pation In the battle of Santiago. She
.was at Bremerton navy yard March
6, 18 98. On March 9 she was at
San Francisco and on May 24, after
a voyage of 13,000 miles, she was at
i anchor la Jupiter Inlet, Florida. On
the 3d of July she was the most for
midable figure In the theatrical sea
fight Mn which every vessel In Cer
rera's fleet was destroyed.
No exploit of any vessel In naval
I history approaches it. It surpassed
(the ambitious expectations of all
f America. It looms In history as the
biggest fact In naval achievement. I
What ship could so, fittingly lead the
. great marine pageant of 1915?
f The Oregon will then he twenty
I years old. She will be the type of
fa discarded model. She would sym
Ibollie at once the militancy of the
illation In naval creation and canal
jbullding. Let the Oregon lead the
'.pageant. . ,V ;
shown. Very probably, and there
we are. "' '...
If our congressman from the Sec
ond, formerly A. W., formerly Aml
don, formerly Arthur,: formerly
Abraham, but now A. W. (Walter).
soon blooms out as Alfonso, we shall
all feel that this time the change was
not without reason
BOYB AND GANGS
D'
of
THE GIRL AND THE EMPLOYER
A
ILLUSIONS
A
DISTINGUISHED novelist
once said that literary men
Should never Show thpmnelvpa
coram publico. Many reasons
'tnlght be assigned for such a state
ment. A popular interpretation
iwould be that the great literary ar
tists are always disappointing. One
revels In the pages of a great book,
book which stands for the highest
;and the best things of life. The
reader naturally associates with the
- master mind that conceived those
pages a certain divinity. The Der
aonallty of the writer is Imagined as
a inmg apart from the faults of or
, fllnary mortals.
for those who wish to cherish
their illusions, for those who would
worship at the shrine of the beauti
ful and the romantic It Is well to
confine their interest solely to the
creations tf the artist, and leave the
man untouched by bent of curiosltv.
For, there are few of our artistic he
roines whose private lives are not
disappointing to the admirers of
tneir achievements.
To those who have listened In awe
and exultation to "Lohengrin,'
isnnnauser," and "Parcifal," the
name of Richard Wagner is hal
iowea ground. The master-artist
nas Deen aeaa zs yearB. And. today
we are confronted with his autobi
ography, transcribed from a collec
tion of memoranda covering a period
or 3& years. The confessions of
. Jticnard Wagner, the man, disclose
mm as a pitiful human being, acta
ated by the same weakness, mean
nesses ana vice that we bo loudly
Kvsaemn.
Surely It Is a mistake to strip the
cloak of - mystery from the Inner
lives or our great, since, If nature
( develops one faculty too brilliantly,
H is so often at the expense of oth-
ers. Someway, ihere is wish that
"Mr. Wagner's autobiography had
never been published.
A
to,
THE FAVORITE BOOK
RECENT BOOK, "The Bible
and Modern Life," gives these
facts. Twenty-seven Bible so
cieties are printing thn taihio
Out In (ha TTnlrw Ot.t .'
HW : . " mree in
J Great Britain and twenty-three on
ithe European continent. Their out-
f , 10 Wa" 12.8U9 Bibles.
vThe Oxford Press turns out 20 000
Bibles , aweek. The British 'and
Foreign, Bib!, society prints the Bi-
.t,,n I00 JlnuaSeB- The Issue of
Blblea for China was 428,000 con
ies last year.lv The American Bible
CLeK..publlsneI and distributed
8,155,01$ copies In 1910. The total
annual Issues of the scriptures are
over J9.000.000 volumes, it is con
aerraUvely estimated , that more Bi
ble! were sold last year than of any
other one " hundred books of the"
year combined. ..: ,', , , , . : -,. ,v .
; Where do they all go and 'how
much are they read, tad studied T it
ean hardly, be doubted that the pres-
tALIFORNIA firm has of
fered a woman employe
block of stock in the concern,
yruviaea sne win remain un
married for ten years. The contract
has been drawn up. If within the
stipulated time the young woman
forsakes her employer for matri
mony, the block of stock will revert
to the company. In case she re
mains single until the expiration of
the contract, she will have reached
the age of 34.
Such a "system would act beneflc
lally to both girl and employer. For
the most part, young girls enter bus
iness life temporarily, it Is a bread
and butter period, a step toward
matrimony, as it were. Too often
this state of mind reacts upon the
girl's efficiency. The girl's view Is
doubtless a - sane one.-- It Is meet
that she should look toward a hapiy
home life as her ultimate profession.
But, too often, her employer suffers.
Because of this attitude In the,
girl, there Is little promise for her
in business. This verv ntmonnhom
rebounds to her disadvantage, and
we have the case of the Southern Pa
cific Issuing orders that hereafter
only men will be employed in the
general offices in San Francisco,
non-perm rnency being assigned ,as
the reason for not employing women.
Once in awhile a woman forges
ahead, but it is the exception that
proves the rule. She may enter a
me name nay wun a young
man. one may worn just as faith
u
r eeu more so. sne may
have superior talents, but, If there
is a vacancy ahead, the men is in
variamy cnosen. Why? Because a
man is rated permanent while a girl
19 aiway-r considered a risk, i
Everywhere the woman Is handi
capped by her sex. Perhaps this is
as it ahould be. If woman had the
same chance in business as man, It
might be that we would soon be a
race of single women and single
men, breakfasting out of paper car
tons, lunching 09 "cubes," and din
ing out of tin cans.
R. LUTHER H. GULICK. a di
rector of the Russell Sage
Foundation, has published re
cently results of his studies in
boy nature its instincts, and their
development. While living In
Springfield, Massachusetts, he noted
repeaiea nema in tne newspapers
about the doings of gangs of boys
They annoyed the people, and com
mitted many petty depredations.
But the misdoings were those
gangs, not individuals.
Much thinking convinced Dr. Gu
lick that In this lay the solution of
the problem. He found here a dls
play of energy diverted into wrong
channels, but It had its birth In the
same social Instincts aftd qualities
that m later years found expression
in clubs, societies, and the like. Fel
low feeling and comradeship bound
the boys together, and the union of
the gang became the more complete
when fights with other gangs were
the welding agency.
Direction of this energy, not the
forcible breaking up of the gangs,
then, was to be sought. And no such
effort would succeed unless the boys
could be amused and Interested.
Wholesome athletics in all forms
was the first suggestion. Above
all organized athletics, such as base
ball, football, team races, rowing
clubs, were listed as desirable. But
the Boy Scout movement receives
strong approval. Here the boys, ac
cordingHo both designs and practice
of the founders, come in contact
with outsiders by way of help and
kindness, and the loose discipline of
the scouts, without becoming oppres
sive or over burdensome, tends to
habits of order and obedience.
The excesses of the gangs cease
when the boys that constitute them
find other sport and wholesome occupation.
Those citizens who have the pre
cious gift of attracting and leading
boys, and who give themselves to
that service, are serving also the city
In he highest sense,-
VICTIMS NECESSARY
A
OUR WALTER
T
HE NEWSPAPER picture of a
young Washington High school
girl "looked good" to our A.
W. (Walter) Laffertv. M. f!.
He enclosed it in a letter to her and
wrote under the picture, "This looks
good to me."
In the letter, he wrote: "Mv Dear
Miss Kubel: Being Impressed with
your picture In the Times, I am writ
ing to see whether a meet ins: cannot
be arranged sometime. I am enclos
ing tickets for the familv eallerv.
I hope you will use them, should you
ever have occasion to visit the house.
l hope you will excuse the unconven-
tlonallty of this letter. I am a bach
elor, 36, and have no family."
in our dashing bachelor congress
man, Washington statesmanship has
had a new pace set. - His letter Is
emphatically a thriller. He should
ask for and be granted leave to nrlnt
I . H . 1. 1 . .
1U iw congressional Record. It
would be a stunning document to lay
up in the archives of the house.
With this billet doux before m.
how can we of Oregon have further continent
misgivings about reciprocity., tariff
revision, International arbitration or
other world affairs, so long as our
"Abe" is on deck at Washington. Is
there not proof positive In this cor
respondence that, no matter what
ponderous isBue of war or love may
involve these United States, the con
gressman from the' Second Oregon
will wade into and eat it up? Look
ing this "My Dear Miss Kubel',' let
ter, squarely in the fae. Is ihere any
doubt that under all vicissitudes and
all great ; International movements,
even in times of pestilence, famine
or war, our. Walter will keep Oregon
atrlctly on the map?
But th Washington dispatches
MR. DE FOREST has gone to
court in an eastern state for
redress from his wife who Is a
militant suffragette. He says
her devotion to the cause Is destroy
ing his home.
It may be true tLat the domestic
machinery is somewhat awry In fam
ilies where ruffrage is rampant. It
may be true that in some cases the
husband and father may degenerate
into what Mr. De Forest in pleased
to term a mere "biological factor."
It may be true that Mr. De Forest is
eveji, as he says, "a victim of the
suffrage movement." But, what
of it?
In all the record of human progress
some toll of human life Is demand
ed. Without experimentation, with
out self-Bacrlflce on the part of a
rew individuals, civilization would
stand still. Every innovation has to
fight for Its life; every Introduction
of new methods Is attended by criti
cism and fatalities. Laws have been
changed only after stubborn resist
ance. Almost every day an aviator
pays the price of dominating the air.
The coming of woman suffrage
seems as sure as the establishment
of the telegraph and the telephone.
But, before it is thoroughly en
trenched wKhln our walls, there Is
a special demand for men who can
keep abreast of the times, .keep
sweet, and maintain their balance as
mere "biological factors."
There must be experiments, a few
homes must be wrecked, a few di
vorces must be heralded, ami a few
lives offered up, that is, if there is
remsiance. jr. is only possible to
minimize the fatalities by "giving
tne norse its bead. The movement
will not be checked, because one
stubborn husband has disregarded
the pulse of the hour and allowed
himself to become a "gloom" rathor
than a "Joy."
region called "The Cameroons." Bn
tween these two tracts jie the French
Congo and the Belgian Congo, enor
mous areas, filling the entire center
of the continent. v -.
German East Africa has been a
source of loss, or rather of, barren
expenditure, to the German empire,
which has paid the blllg for the new
Colony. .' : ; - ..
Britain has a vastly different rec
ord. What she has done and is do-i
ing in the long valley of the Nile Is
known to the world. Colonel Roose
velt has told the tale of her settle
ment, her railroad, her steamers on
the great lakes 6f. the Interior. ? Her
trade has enormous! developed.
But much less is known of Niger
ia, the province of the. valley of the
great river between the Sahara deS'
ert and the Bight of Benin on the
Atlantic. One of Britain's young
pro-consuls is Sir Percy Glrouard
whom, after service with Kitchener
in the Soudan, she made him high
commissioner in Nigeria. Under
tnts man's Initiative no less than 670
miles of railroad have been "built in
the past seven yearst and" the Niger
nas Deen opened to steam navlsra
tion for 400 miles below the point
wnence the railroads start. Nigeria
Doraers on the- German Cameroons
Britain has thus preempted the re
gion to the north and Joins hands
with France, working southwards
from Algeria and the Sahara.
so German commerce has been
distanced, to say tile least of It, by
Britain and France. But. If France
could be, by any means, Induced to
give up all or a great part of the
French Congo, German territory
could expand "southward and east
ward and possibly enter the Belgian
Congo.
One result would be to draw a
broad band right across Africa, lim
iting the extension southward of
British power, now working in the
Nile valley, and setting bounds also
to development methods of Rho
desia.
Some Idea may thus be gained of
the stakes for which Germany is ap
parently playing, and for which she
faces the risks of war. j
denunciation of Indirect
modes of doing, forbidden things, ex
pressed ln,the Standard Oil and, to
bacco" decisions, tt looks to the ordi
nary observer as If the practice In
question wouia meet short shrift if.
and when, it came before him and
his fellow Justices. - v
: Let' it not be' thought that this
development of the -powr pf a. the
money trust would , j be thereby
uroaen. it mignt be that one ten
tacle of the octopus would be cut.
But reorganixation of the security
companIe--over' 800 .in 1 number-i
wouia oe promptly effected, without
the . clauses confining ownership of
meir stocks to, stockholders In the
parent national bank, and all would
go merrily on.
Unless the monopoly of, and the
control oyer, capital available for all
new commercial enterprises of im
portance can be removed from the
two or three great money kinaa nre.
domlnant In New York the power of
tne money trust will neither -. be
broken nor seriously reduced. There
is not yet a cloud, even as bl as a
mans hand, betokening this event.
THE SAN' FRANCISCO STATE
... MENT
IN"
AN AUDITORIUM ORGAN
r
THE STAKE IN AFRICA
r
HE RECENT history of devel
opfflent In equatorial Africa
may throw light on the Jeal
ousy with which France and
England watch the sudden effort of
Germany to "butt in.".
ine Atrican continent the dark
Is the happy. huntlnK
ground for the spread of commer-
Lcial development of the European
nations, marked out Into the respect
ive "spheres of influence" of Great,
Britain, France and Germany a very
few years ago. v
To France was allotted all of the
northern half of the continent, with
exceptions, namely, Egypt and the
valley Of the Nile, from the Equator
to the Mediterranean, which fell to
Great Britain. So also did the string
of English settlements on the west
coast. Including the 'valley of the
Niger, and the entire, regions be
tween the Bight of f Benin and' the
French sphere I which reached north
wards to the Mediterranean. Ger-
T WJLL NOT BE disputed that the
auditorium of the city of Port
land, Oregon, will be shorn of
one of Its greatest attractions.
and one chief opportunity of public
Denent win be wanting, unless an
organ of power and beauty to fit its
placing and surroundings shall be
n readiness for the opening ceremon
ies of the building. By a slnifular
coincidence our namesake, Port
land, Maine, is now having erected
what is described as a maenlflcent
city hall. In that hall is belne to
talled a splendid concert organ, the
gift of one of her ex-citizens.
The art of organ building has
been completely re-organlzed within
the past ten years. The orchestral
organ specially adapted to concert
halfa is distinguished from church
es, is being rapidly developed. The
most noteworthy of recent examples
are the organs installed in the Car
negie institute at Pittsburg, the At
lanta City hall, and the Ocean Grove
auditorium at Ocean Grove, New Jer
sey, which accommodates an audi
ence of 10,000 people.
In obtaining the desired Instru
ment the commission will doubtless
first select one or more expert or
ganists of national reputation, whose
functions will correspond to those of
the architect of a building, and
will advise as to the plan and struc
ture. Then will come the choice of
a builder, then the construction of
the organ and its installation. Many
months will be required before the
player takes his seat and the myriad
of pipes begin to speak.
When once the plans of 'the pro
posed building are approved the
first steps should be taken for ex
perience warns us of neceessary time
and unexpected delays.
Such an organ would be one of
the best advertisements for the au
ditorium, and, Indirectly, for the
city of Toriland, that could be le-vlscd.
N THE JOURNAL yesterday prom
inent Han Franciscans Joined in
statement minimizing the ef.
fedts of the earthauake of Jnlr
1 in mat city. Though acknowledg
ing that the quake was sharpy they
deny that even slight damage to
property or life was done.
The. spirit and purpose erf ' thm
1 j ... -1 - . -
lovouiouv jb exceiiem, ana will gen
erally be accepted as representing
the facts. Indeed, there has been
no wide understanding that any ef-
iects ot consequence attended the
temblor.
The shake, in fact, was not con
fined to San Francisco, and was no
more sevore thJre than at- manv
other points. It was even frit in
Seatthvihcwgh not perceptible in
uregon, due to the fact that the
earthquake zone In this latitude
seems, by a curious arrangement of
nature, to be some distance at sea,
rendering this state practically Im
mune from such disturbances.
The new San Francisco construc
tion is so substantial, that little fear
is reit there for future earthquakes.
Concrete and steel construction with
stood the great quake 6f April 18.
1906, and It is mostly from that ma
terial that the reconstructed cityis
built. It is a city whose militancy
commands the admiration of Chris
tendom, and the statement, of its
public men and newspapers relative
to the late shake will be generally
accepted.
Kelly,, ajx-burflar. Invaded, the sheriffs
Office at RoMburg, stole hja keys. . lib
erated a coupU of forgers awaiting trial,
and fled with them to parts unknown.
Tli Incident serves to accentuate the
folly to which the governor lending
himself and it la time for him to go on
another man hunt., if he Catches Kellv
Koe Bnoum eiap nm wnsta evereiy." ; t
1 wjan to aay that no one by the name
of Frank Ketly appears to have been pa.
roiea rrom tne cute penitentiary dur
ing my administration nor at any ether
nme. 1 m at a loss to know Why a
newspaper should dealre to give out to
ua reaaera . Statement which ia ma ah.
soiuteiy without foundation., 'Sf? .w
My prison policy it either right or
wrwna; . anq.. j ' Know . an good . DeooU
would rather see it prove a success. than
failure it ahould be-Judged upon Its
merit. - If any of the men o wronav
and I em pleased ti say none of those
wno- nave been paroled by me have so
rar, u wui then he time to write auch
editorials aa the above. Buoh untruth
ful statements are hound to le accented
truth by many neoole and thus .
come a Hindrance to the adoption Of a
progreealve policy of prison reform, r
For myaetf-t ask no ouartef. T in
accept without a murmur almoat nv
criticism my enemies may be pleased to
offer but tof many of those poor un
fortunates at the penitentiary, who are
trying to get oh their feet and who T
Mcnow are far less guilty . of crime than
many or my critics; j do ask a square
deal. -. - 'y - ... , . .... t
The centennial will soon be opened
and we will lay before the world a hun
dred years of western progress. . Let
ua be able to show that jout here, ths
cause of "man" has progressed aa well
aa tne cause or the idollar." ,
Tours sincerely, ' .
Oswald vest.
Strikes Keynote
rrom
tls T
acoma
Trib
uns
. The San Franclaco Examiner, In a rs-
cent article upon the opening of the
Panama canal and the influence it will
exert upon the trade of the northern
Paclflo coast, probably atalkes the keyJ
note of the situation In saying that
"we must prepare to handle cargoes
quickly and cheaply and make Ban Fran
cisco cne of 'the most reasonable In
stead of one of the most expensive ports
in which to fit our ships."
iThlg Is In confirmation of the re
marks which were- recently made by
the Tribune along the same lines, but
with reference to this city. Speaking
of the recent speeches by John Barrett
on the subject, and John Barrett Is to
be heard on Mondasf night riext in T.
coma on the Panama canal and Its in
fluence on the -aound. the Examiner
goes on to point out that the 8outh
AmaHnan tvmA k.nafu far
- - - .uv " . . aivt wiv.i. -
as San Francisco la concerned by the
opening of the canal.( The opening of
that canal will bring Nw Tork closer
to ; the west coast of South America
than Is San Franclaco. Hence, this, coast
will Jiave an active competitor. Unless,
uioiciorB. can i rancisco n reaay a iau
up a commanding position In that trade
oerore the Panama canal IS opened It
must stand. prepared to see much of
what It 'already possesses pass Into the
nana or. the Atlantis coast ports,
TS.a a. . , . . 1
tlon to do this thtnr. Its trade with
bouth America Is larrelv In the hands
cause of the atrena-th alven to It bv Its
affiliation with the Southern Pacific and
partly because of the navigation laws
or the country.
'Hence the Examiner, having no real
hope as to any amelioration in the cir
cumstances, turns Its attention to the
Improvement of the port itself so as to
Invite other trade. It Is about to spend
19,000,000 on harbor Improvements. They
are. pronaniy necessary. .
One the determining factors In
vessel's call at any given port Is the
cost of making that call. There la
fixed charge to the vessel for each day
she Is delayed the overhead charges
ofv her crew and her cost. To these
must be added pilotage dues and wharf
This
An English sporting writer de
scribes Jack Johnson- as probably
weighing 280 pounds and as swiftly
taking on that appearance that has
often preceded the final fall of cham
pions. Remembering, however, what
happened to the Honorable Jeffries.
It Is best for the white hope to pro
ceed with caution.
"The interests" are going to pour
cash into Canada to try to defeat
reciprocity. But coin of the realm
might not prove as militant there as
in the Illinois legislature.
Twenty-one rooms are required
for Admiral Togo in, his New York
hotel. Things happen to you that
you never dreamed of, after you have
licked a Russian fleet.
West's Reply to a Critic.
From the Astoria Budget.
The Aatorlan printed an editorial stat
ing that:
"Governor West's politico-esthetlo at
titude toward the criminals In duress at
the Oregon pen got a bad twist when one
of his first paroled proteges, Frank
1 . .. .
Spokane's Claim.
From; the Spokesman-Review
Spokane shippers and rate experts
agree that approximately 70 per cant of
the shipments from the eaat come from
Missouri river points, described aa
aone 1," or from Chicago . territory.
described as "tone 2."
Rates to Spokane from Missouri river
points will be as low under the inter
state commerce decisions as to coast
cities. Rates from Chicago . territory
must not be more than 7 per cent
greater than to the coast cities. Thus
or' more than .two thirds of the ahlp-
menu irom tne east inland towns will
get rates practically as low as coast
cities, and even from K
kane the rates must not be mnr than end docking facilities and costs.
26 per cent greater than to the Paclflo must be taken out of the freight earned,
coast cities.' ' Now the building of docks and
These reductions In Spokane rate are wharves Is expensive, but the real ex
so great that Portland Jobbers admit Pense in the matter Is the cost of the
they have lost control of Inland bust- foreshore on which they are built. Next
ness to Spokane. la the queatton whether access may be
gained from that foreshore to the land
Sacramento Wants Klamath Trade, transportation companies, so as to ot-
Frpm the Sacramento Union. J"" ? mPe"ve raw. 11 monopo...-
1 .,.... , . Ing right of way have to be crossed
r, !! ., ejtt'n"lon urslon to tne roBt of ,nch acceM may ch(lnce t0
Klamath Falls, Or., was projected yes- be alt the trade can bear,
terday at a meeting of the board of dl- Knowing the deficiency of San Fran
rectors of the Jobbers' association of Cisco In docking accommodation, the
the Butter club. The excursion will be Presa of the city Is recently welcoming
held some time In September under the ln yl'n 01 representative or one or
auspices of the chnmber of commerce.
The Jobbers' association met at th-re-nuest
of I fi. Upson, president of the
Retail Merchants' association to discuss
tne possibilities of a trade extension ex
cursion to toe north country.
the largest firms of British shippers
and dockmasters. That firm anticipates
a large trade between Europe and Sau
Francisco and In consequence want to
see that there are1- docks to accommo
date Its customers. It Is willing to
Ulen- Anarus. secret rv manaaa, . ...
-t . - - - ironi.ann ir can gel acceaa irom mai
vUed ?l7 th. .Th -Ce' V tl waterfront to competitive Inland rates.
Mted guest at the meeting, and assumed ,. ,h
Vancouver, B. C. has fought out this
same question in a battle which lasted
for, many years. That city has now a
waterfront with which it can make a -bid
for the trade consequent upon thn
opening of the Panama canal. Donald,
Outhrle & Co., In conjunction with the
Great Northern railway, are building a
huge dock at Vancouver measuring 7B0x
100 feet. Vancouver evidently Intend
to make a bid for that trade. San Fran-
tne responsibility for gettina-"un the
excursion, with the cooperation of the
other civic bodies. The meeting was
enthusiastic, and resolutions were
adopted by the jobbers indorsing the
proposed excursion and pledging their
aid ln carrying out their part ef the
work.
Mnslc at Noon Hours.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Boston has decided to follow the ex- olsco Is -also alive.
ample of New Torkclty and provide
noonday concerts which are to be given
on the Common between 12 and t
o'clock. It is thus hoped to provide a
refreshing noon hour under the trees
for the clerks, stenographers, business
mm ana omer worKers.
This Is -additional to Sunday after
noon concerts on the Common, Satur
day concerts in Franklin park, and
"w concerts ourlng the mV
News Forecast of tke
looming Week
Washington, D. C Aug. 8. The week
Is expected to see the end of the spe
cial session of congress and the de
parture of the 'president and the mem-
la- be r of both houses for their vbelated
monv nlf.
England's laureate said, -nhe "ightT "UmmW v'!tlonB' The vo, on, th9
shall be filled with music," and even Art,0n"-Nw Mexico statehood bill, the
the "cares that infest the day" are to 'a8t important Item on the legislative
be assuaged by Ua sweet and elevating calendar, la fixed for Monday.
Mtf'ni' , s Admiral Togo, the famous Japanese
Chicago's few park concert amm naval commander now ? visiting the
very meager provision for the musical United States, will spend the early part
ii emimeni or tne people, compared to of theweek ln Washington, where sev
SEVEN FAMOUS SAGES
Thales.
A
SECURITY COMPANIES
SHOCK WILL BR given to
present methods for extending
the Influence or control of one
national bank over nthAr
when Attorney General Wlckersham
aavises that security companies by
wuicn tneBe ends nave been attained
I n rrt 41tnn.nl . . i - .
" '"cbi "seuQii-s ior such Dur-
poses. This effect will be more
strongly Pelt ln New York than else.
where, since ln the national banks of
mat city the ultimate control or in
fluence in question has been cen
tered.
The national banking law evl.
denced the antipathy of congress to
one or more central banks ly pro-
'lumg in eirect tnat each nationnl
DanK snau be a separate unit hone
or lis . capital stock being held hv
another national bank directly or ln-
Girccuy. But the security company
had no such limitations. It could
buy, sell, hold, control, or deal In
securities of any nature, national
bank stocks Included. .But" the own.
ershlp of etock ln the security com
pany waa connned to individual
stockholders in its parent national
back.
r The attorney general's
was whether thestock-ownerBhlp in
the security company, confined to
stock
The Seven Sages were the recognized
wise men among the ancients. . They
were from Greece, the country of the
greatest learning of that period, and
lived between B. C.j'SO and 660. They
were rulers, lawgivers, or counselors,
distinguished for their practical wis
dom and were believed to be the
authors of brief aphorisms expressing
tne results or tneir moral and social
experiences. There was no unanimity
among the ancients with regard to the
names, the number' or the sayings of
these ramous sages. The number seven
is as old as PI near, but the earliest list
of the seven is given in Plato's "Prota
goras." ,
Those usually mentioned are Thales
Of Miletus, 639-6S ("To be mirety
brings ruin"); Solon of Athena, about
600 B. C. ("Nothing In excess." 1. e,,
observe moderation): Bias of PHene ln
Caria, about B. C. 670 ('Too many
workers spoil the work"); Chllon of
Bparta ("Know thyself'); CleobUIus,
Tyrant of Lindus In Rhodes ("Modera
tion is the chief good"); Perlander, Ty
rant of Corinth, -6S4 ('Forethought
ln all things "), and Plttacus of Mlty
lene, born about 850, . deliverer and
"acsymnetes" of his native city ("Know
thine opportunity"):
In the list of the Seven Sages the
name of Thales seems to' have stood
at the head, and he displayed his wis
dom both by political sagacity and by
prudence in acquiring wealth. He was
the first man to whom the name of
Wise was given, when .Damascua was
Archon at Athena, whose, wise men had
that title given to thorn van Pemetrlus
Phatereus records In his "Catalogue of
the Archons." ' ; ;
It Is claimed for Thales that he was
the first person who affirmed that the
souls of men were tm mortal, and he
was the first person, too, who discovered
the path of the sun from one end of
the ecliptic .to the other. He was also
the first person who called the last riar
oruie mon(n the soth. ,, They Say, too,
that he was. the original deflner of the
season of the year and that It .Was he
who divided, the year lnfvj5 days.
Apoilodoru. in his ''Chronicles," says
that Thales was born in the first vam
of the 36th Olympiad, and he died at
rral notable dinners are to be given In
hn honor. He will go to Philadelphia
Wednesday and after a visit of one
day In that city he Is to become tha
guest of New Tork city.
The department of agriculture's crop
report showing th' 'Condition of the
principal crops on August 1 will bs
solves itself, and that the earth floated '"8"d Wednesday afternoon. It will
upon the water, announce also the preliminary estimate
Thalea la said to have predicted the of yMa mnS "uaI,ty of winter wheat.
and
in
eclipse of the sun Moh v. .. the acreage 'of buckwheat, hay
the reign of the Lydlan king Alyattes' rye' "na mtoet ot "t n barley
to have diverted the course of h r.iJ farmers1 hands on August 1.
river In the time of a i. - The 'Michigan School of Mines at
In order to unite the Ionian, wrh.n Houghton wi:i celebrate Its qusrterj
Vif Mt. , er81an". to have In
stituted a federal council In Teoa.
'7. "" " "ret man in the Western
world
centennial during the week. Preside
Taft has designated the secretary of
commerce . and labor to represent the
administration at the celebration.
An International aviation meet will be
opened In Chicago Saturday, to be con
tinued -for eight days. The program
provides for racing for various dis
coverer of material cause. n!thK tances around the flying field. Weight
course,- he made no distinction between carrying, quick starting and quick
matter and form or between being andj d'mblng contests, bonb throwing from
becoming, fitlll lex hari h Jr,l arrent heights and cross-water races-.'
ir-ui or nnni ini. .ik..u
' ..vuuua'i)
'A
wno, settlna; aside the.
mythical or theological explanation of
the universe, looked for it. first prin-
H mi. D a,"trRct',n f t the reason.
Me may be sniri t - j.
owners in the parent hank.
was indirectly the means of control the age of 7 years, -or, according to
by that parent bank of the p-Iiri.iPOB,cts, the ege or to, tor he died
ties held inrmlM Kwei.. J'J.m the 8th Olympiad. 1 having lived In
tieg neid or controlled by the eecuri-th time of Croesus. ,
ties company stocks of" Other na- Thales. maintained, that water Is the
tlonal banks Included, v. . .... ; origin of things, meaning thereby that
Bearln In mind Chief . J,t,c. j intV SS?jg?'Si
or efficient or flrmi
havfflg observed the action of the load
stone he affirmed that all things were
full of gods. Thl
rir j "toues time consider-
f2 f,r"v,1t regarding his opfn-
ions. The chief aourcea of knowledge
respecting blm are learned from Aria-
..u uiuicnea iaeruus.
It is from ArlatntlA . thmt t
that Thales found In wail, .w " ..,"
ne Kino.. "Si
"'."""" . naivmg conceived that the
Sm h- ' upo? ot elemental
fluid, he supposed all things to be fuU
tiJEfclS Kat 1? v,rtue of th ttracui
exercised by the magnet he attributed
ilJ. A"L Here, our Information
ends. Aristotle suggests , that Thales
1" llV HI" fundamental dogma by
- '.-" me pari wnicn moisture
plays m the; production and the main
tenance of life, end Simpllclus held that
the- impressibility and the binding
power of water were perhaps also in
hia thoughts, but these are by admls
sion purely conjectural. ; : -The
assertion rrvervi (
Thales recognised, together with
the material element "water." "mind"
which penetrates it and sets It In,m-1
vnia reruiea ny tne precise
testimony of Aristotle, who declares
that the early physicians did not dis
tinguish the moving cause from, the ma
terial Cause and that before. Harm.).
mus and Auaxagoras ho one postulated
a creative Intelligences , ; ,
Meager and fntUe as the doctrine of
Thalea was, all the Greek schools, with
the solitary exception of that of Pytha
goras, took -their origin from It. Not
In name only, but also in fact, Thales,
the flrst of the Ionian physicists, was
the founder of the philosophy ot Greece.
TomorrowSolon. 'j
The most notable gatherings of the
week will be the-, world's congress of
Zionists, at Basle. Switserland, at which
both the United States and Canada will
be represented; the annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence, Union
of America, at Scranton, Pa., and the
Negro Nntlftnal KduCatlonal congress,
which will meet In Denver for a ses
sion of three days.
Guarding the Convicts.
From the Eugene Guard.
You can guard men.better by placing
them on their Honor than you can by
watching them with Winchesters, ac
cording to Governor West, remarks one
of our state exchanges.
80 far. the results of the honor sys
tem which the governor haa Instituted
at the Salem penitentiary, bear out his
statement , k
There are 144 convicts worktnar about
th penitentiary, within a radius of five
miles, who are without guard. Thav
have been free to come and go, so far
aa pnysicai restraint is concerned
through all the summer months. Out a!
the total number but two have tried to
get away. One Jess Hall was tracked
and caught by the governor himself. He
I back in prison, with the privilege of
working outside the penitentiary ts ken
from him. The other, a bov tit anniit CD.
and harmless tn-so-far as belngr a souro
of: danger to other, has bn
and will soon ba arrested.
Compare this with- the last attempt
made to work convicts outside the
prison. Under guard two years ago. Of
the gang working on the roads about
Salem 2S escaped, in spit of the watch
fulness of armed guards. Escapes and
attempt to. escape from the prison un
der the guard nystem have been numer
ous, as t well known. .
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