THE- OREGON DILY JOURNAL flpRTLAND, ! MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 1912.'
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notions ara
TT7 in . "T ""M 7T XT A T .' not DelIev that out own
"' ' 1 riEi -1 VJ U rviN rxJUr I the only way' of salvation
aw in pKtenpent wswbpaper. ' ' Perhaps the most Important of. all
r tTx'icKox '" . . ,.!''' our new year, s anas Has to do wun
:. wndn Kurainir at The jorni iroiw-1 or practical education In our schools.
. . '" ""' "- Port"nd' j nut ta bring Quick results the par-
-J'Sa4W m"8t Mcourage this change
wm miiw. ror it is a change in alms or tne
teaching of both high school and
public school of all degrees.
Alf these are homely things. They
are ,at our very doors. But when
the end of 1912 comes a most ma
terial change for tho better may bo
seen.
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v.. J, Is ta L'ottad St. tea or Mexico.
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DllLT AND SCNPAY.
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AN AFFAIR - OK HONOR
I hardly yet have learn'd
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and
bend my knee. '
' Shakeopeara
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ts
UNDESERVED CTtrTICISM
0
CCASIONAL hints by writers In
The Journal's "letters-from
the-people" column do the
Portland Commercial club in
' 'Justice. They are hints to the effect
'. that Jn Its publicity literature . the
' club has sought to bring worktngmen
; - to Oregon in numbers for. the pur-
pose of beating down wages.
- . It Is an unjust and undesenred
'" critlci&n The club is ,a splendidly
patriotic organization. Its endeavor
f has always been for the upbuild of
V,j Portland and the state.
': -v. . It spends large sums in the effort
-.'- to develop Oregon. It maintains
! "Lliureaus with the object of bringing
capital into the state for the exten
6lon of manufactures, and in that
' v activity has added many enterprises
ST that give employment to workipg-
'. men.
It la constantly engaged In an ef-
t",?"fort to enlist investment of all kinds
and it Is from Investments that work-
ingmen and labor draw wages and
" survival.. It aids. constantly In move-
- .cients , for waterway, development,
v public docks, and other public, activ
ities for the benefit of all classes and
, conditions of society.
It has on all occasions exerted its
influence for public reclamation of
;C arid lands, as a means of providing
homes for the homeless, and strives
- at all times to promote dry farming
....Jn a further effort to get land for the
landless: .
.-' It loses no opportunity to promote
; '-"unity" and kindly relation among the
various . districts of the state, even
-tuio the remotest borders, and in that
. "' - function, has sent Us members in largo
numbers to every district. It has
...been zealous, in season and out, In
every possible movement to promote
the building of railroads, the con
J"; etruction of good r6ads and in every
other endeavor that seemed to prom-
r Ise amelioration of the surroundings
. and better the condition of all the
.- it people -of Oregon, regardless of lo-
' cation, situation or level In life.
It: is'an organliatlon that recog-
ir nlzes no distinction between men,
that sees no differences in. people,
-that has no politics, that.knowa no
-fl1""asa-aiiirthat'reah3-thatHhe;b6gt
conditions that can be madeto sur-
5 round every unit In the social body,
v whetber high or low, are for the beet
" Interests of Oregon. It has for years
spent its money and devoted Its best
energies for all things by which ser
vice could be rendered tne state as
a whole. Its purse is always open
and its hand ever ready to help the
commonwealth and all the people of
the commonwealth.
Its members are taxed for main-
tenance of the organization, and the
L. organization spends large , sums in
the entertainment of persona In all
; walks who visit Oregon, from the
i president of the .United States down
Jto public delegations , or protective
"Investors seeking locations.
T It is a splendid public body, and
Jt snouia oe neyona me cruicism
that occasonal writers have cast In
Its direction.
PROSPECTS .-AND AIMS
T is well that the state senate and
the department of j'iRtice did not
come to actual blows In Judge
Gatens' court .room Saturday.
Perish the thought. It would have
meant the hope of Scotland and the
hope of the 'Irish race thrust Into a
bont for championship honors with
out a moment's notice and without
chance for preliminary training.
The senate must certainly haye
come up for the second rourtd short
of wind. The department of Justice
must Inevitably have been wobbly lii
his punch and entirely too fat for
a wninwina finish.
Worse still, there was no provls-
when- the . loan Is approved he can
begin building and: the . money li
available' as the building progresses
' A . somewhat similar plan is in op
eration in New Zealand, and Is in
contemplation in other British colo
nies.
ln Algeria, France helps "the Arab
farmer through the land mortgage
banks for which tho state supplies
the capital. The last report showed
loans of over half a million dollars
to these Arabs, who have quit fight
ing France, have obtained farms, are
raising corn' and wheat,, and have
taken up the task of becoming re
spectable! French citizens. Doubtless
Italy hoped for a similar experience
In Tripoli, but eventB show. that she
will have to pass' through the fight
ing stage that kept Franoe busy for
forty years before her Arabs were
content to turp their swords into
plowshares and their spears Into
pruning hooka.
Instructed in the lor of-the fields
andriToods.,-.' '-i ' - ' v.''; '
r 81r 'Francis may not make soldiers
df Wis' boys but he is .training them
tor I tlzenshlp not of England only
but oJJ the world. 7 ; ' '. , -
Lei Hen From tLe People
COMMENT AND NEW3 IN BRIEF,
(Cornni Uili 'tlona aant to Tha Journal for pn!v
tuiM ui'partpiaoi anuuta out minm
In Ivuglb and mint b arcompaQlad
ana aaurnaa or ua aenaar . .
lleillcn i I tl
S()0 worda t In
b tba
Ion for seconds, for referee or for
smelling 'salts- and sponges, and no
decision as to whether the mill was
to be under Marquis of Queensbury
or the revised football rules. The
senate would probably have hit tho
department of Justice below the belt
and the wholly untrained pride of
Scotland would have fouled the Irish
hope unlimited times.
Professionally, the mill would cer
tainly have been a failure and whol
ly unsatisfactory to the fight fans.
Financially, It would have been un
satisfying for there was no side bet.
no provision for division of the gate
money, and no arrangement for fight
picture privileges.
It Is far better that the affair end
ed as It did in an armed neutrality.
Judge Gatens would probably be Jus
tified In recognizing a permanent
state of belligerency and ordering
a stay of hostilities until the Wilde
case Is finished.
Meantime, the senate should go
Into executive session and pass a con
current resolution declaring that he
will meet ther braw Scot on any
terms and ' with ' any weapons and
fight him to a fare-you-well. To
which, the pride of Scotland should
reply w'lth a motion to strllte out the
resolution as Incompetent, irrelevant,
and immaterial, and come back at
the Irish wonder with an offer to
stake the issues ot the dispute on
a game- of .domiiiom
G
GOATS
t
THE MAN WITHOUT A IIO.MR
B"
EINO an old fogey, a man has
wondered at the Increasing
number of persons, with home
addresses In the telephone
book, who etect to dine abroad on
Thanksgiving, Newr Year's ' and
Christmas", Kelng, also, a bachelor,
he muses upon the home conditions
that Bend a family to tho superficial
and Incomplete enjoyments of a hotel
dining room. He wonders. why peo
ple with hearthstones of their own
do not want to sit by tnem.
It distresses him. He Is down
cast at the shattering of traditions
and customs. He Is shocked at the
turning of what in his youthful days
were sacred' home festivals into a
sort of public show. He finally con
cludes that all Buch marriages must
be farces and failures, and resolves
to remain in an unwedded state for
ever. ..
He reflects upon the New Year's
orgy. Before nls mlna s eye is un
rolled a panorama of women find
men of, .his acciualntap.ee celebrating
the New Year's advent. He remem
bers the wierd movements, the fa
miliarity. He recalls the wives and
daughters of hla business" associates
engaged In "stunts" that put the
turkey trot, the grizzly bear, the
Cubanola glide, the Davftas dip, -he
Parisian can-can and the Hoochee
Coochee to the .blush. And, his bach
elor heart Is filled with gladness that
none in those extraordinary scenes
of revel was related to him by
stronger ties than friendship.
He compares his fate with that of
Blubps, who sat with his wife and
three daughters in a putillo dining
room, with their forks on their tur
key and their eyes dissecting the
various "combinations - ot dlners-and j
their sartorial display. He finished
his dinner, returned to his club, and
was elad of his freedom, glad that!
OATS on the farm are unique in he had escaped being tied to a home
this, that they not only raise a j that is no home. And, the next
crop or mohair each yea, that j morning, he went to his office, and,
represents a large proportion of ! to the woman who asked an lnter-
thelr first cost, but they are such , Vlew, he gave forth this sentiment:
tTu D(l. OIl.l VT9t
pfhd leton, Deo. J9. To th Editor of
The .Ir turnal. Under tha heading quot
ed n&uve, Alfred D. Crtde Insinuates
that t am either the victim or some
"johi. 1". or that I am trying to deceive
the po &1 of Oregon. With your kind
permlfu lon I will let Henry Oeorge
"I'rogre: Vs and Poverty," pages 403-404
annuri for me. .
Horn U whn,t Mr, George ways:
"I. do not propose either to purchase
or to fii; irlscate private property In land.
Tho flrbt would be unjust; the second,
nt-edletiji.., -Let the Individuals who npw
hold it still detain. If they want to, pos
session or v'That'thcy are pleased to carl
their land. Let -them pontlnue to call
It their Ian fl. Lct'them buy and sell,
and bequeajpi and devise It. We may
nafely leave them the shell, if we take
the kernel.. It Is not necessary to con
fiscate la nil; It Is only necessary to oon
l'lscate rerk:J What I,- there
fore, propose, as the simple yet sover
eign remedi lato appropri
ate rnt by taxation."
It win H seen from Mr. George's
own words, . quoted above, that the pri
mary object i of single tax la to destroy
private property In land. The raising
of revenue s Incidental. If the single
taxer have . power to adopt their sy-
tern, they . till be able to control the
officials wh o administer It Being op
posed to prl yate property In land, ttiey
will direct tihfc power of taxation against
It; for If Hi a landless majority can b
Induced to r4vlft the whole burden of
taxation upon land owners with this
object in vhsw, they can, by the same
logic, be led to support one public ex
travagance iter another until the full
rental Value of land has been consumed
by taxes. Herein lies a rich field for
exploitation. Last year when all prop
erty owners w ire required to contribute
toward the suj port of government, their
united resistaiKe to public appropria
tions held tho combined levies of all
the taxing bol Js of the state down to
twelve million. But the gross output
of farms and ranches alone exceeded
one hundred million. When the rent
al Income of lots, franchises, fisheries,
forests and mint's Is added to this, we
have a tnuj (.turn which might be ex
pended by enti! t prising officials In pub
lic Improvements! We would have
work enough llor all at good wages.
Everyhody wr old be prosperous and
happy except , the luckless land owner.
Even he would V consoled by the knowl
edge that his substance was. being
squandered In a good cause.
This. .Is the statement of Henry
George, the pro pbet of single tax, and
a fair Interpretation thereof.-
The single tax its and I have one point
of agreement, however. They profess
concern for th common welfare of hu
manity. So dT t, If the editor of this
great paper tfhljiks elaboration of my
plans would 1 e worthy of space, or If
Mr. Cridge Yiruld like to exchange
v lewa before 4L ubllo audience, X 'am
prepared tp nuatcth Ideas with him, or
any other slngue taxer. Respectfully,
j C. P. STRAIN.
As sessor Umatilla County.
good land :Clearers that they would
fee worth keeping for the good they
do.
From 1867, when Angoras were
broligTiflhtd Dfegffif rrom California,
to 1911, when the crop tif mohair
realized between f 150,000 and $20u
000; there has been a steady though
a slow growth of the industry.
The reasons for the slowness are not
far to seek. In 1867 there were not
many flocks in America from which
Oregon flocks could be started, and
the price Was very high. The An-j
gora was a new animal to the Oregon !
farmer. Its care was an unknown)
art. Even as, late as 1880 they were ;
almost curiosities when exhibited ajrj
the state fair. And more Iriflnen-
"I have no sympathy with "this
feminist movement which leads
women to desert their, homes. It Is
i the exodus of wuajnap from the, home
I that Is responsible for marital un
rest. If women would stay away
from cheap places of amusement and
attend to thel&ousehold duties and
the moral welfare of their husbands
and children, there would be thou
sands of cases less in the divorce
court. Good morning, madam."
WOKLI) SCOUTS
B
OY .SCOUTS we have heard of
since 1903 when General
Baden-Powell Invented them in
England. In America "there
tlal than all othpr'mnsoa thorn. woo nr. v.rt hni n minAn.nf ti,.n ninndinjt.twmi, In some or these cities
. it " , 1 Z" . """ , " ' -TSthe plants U b abandoned altogether,
1 1 1 1 ji nnLii 1 1 i r-ri hii kim t iiii ! mri i 11 uii irimr a pa miinn d cn n M-"nsfi nni-ii. .1 1 .-
uauab I V j XY J t 1 .j 1JU1JU MIOW X U . i (tUL'W ClUU
vertlse the Angora ; through the 1 Italy, But who are these World
state at largo. I Scouts? Is It a rival organization to
Nowadays the Angora has come j the Boy Scouts, and if so, wherein
J
UST as the dying year compels
the backward look so, when the
uewyear presents Itself, . the
view sweeps the new horlaon to
see and to resolve.
In spite of the proverb resolutions
will sorely be made the thing is
J- that they be reasonable and prac
Ileal. As we look at home we see tht,
' t Oregon may go far' in this coming
Jear on the course of development
of her possibilities. 1 .But united, log
. fcai, and Instructed effort will be
needed.
- , We should urge first the adoption
1,1 at the cooperative Idea, over the en
tire statej The age of isolation and
. narrowness is past or passing fast.
- The application of cooperation to the
t , industries and the improvement of
"the land is urgent. The orchardists
IP of Hood River and the farmers of
- the northern counties have proved
s Its value. It Is not now a question
I' of 'detailing possible 'instances, but
I ,to set minds working on possiblll
J ties.
Along the same line comes the
. gospel of better farming the exten-
lnto Its own. The Northwest Angora
Goat association Is a permanent and
well organized body of men "who are
enthusiasts ' for 'the . goats. Its an
nual show, which Is. to be held for
1912 at Dallas, on the 3d. 4th and
Eth instant will rightly attract' a
large attendance, many of whom will
be buyers "intending to start new
flocks or else to raise the standard
of existing flocks by pure bred buckB
and does.
To those who intend clearing land
this winter it is suggested that, a
was the need for them?
These questions are answered in
an article about them in the Janu
ary number 6f the American Maga
zine. Albert Jay Nock Is the writer.
In, the first place the World Scout
idea Is the reply to the objection
that Boy Scouts are soldiers In the
egg- In England they are welcomed,
with the" notion that In them the na
tion has a reserve from which In the
coming years her regiments will bo
recruited. Not that the Boy Scouts
1 nro not the gainers by the discipline!
The Telef ihone Situation.
Portland, Or., Dec. 27. To the Editor
of The Journal. -The telephone situation
1h again combig to a crisis In this city,
and If the taxpa yers and business men
are to put a stpj to the continual repe
tition of this i arce, the time Is now
ripe to do it.
A' glance Intel" the history of the tele
phone business? over the entire country
shows that win 'rever one company has
had a monopo 'hflerh rates. Inefficient
service and d4eburteous treatment of
the public havi resulted. On the other
hand, where a., competing company has
been In the f I M, tho rates have been
lower, the aeHlce vastly better and the
public has- received decent treatment,
but the teleiplaDne user has been no bet
ter off bees 11 He he has had to pay for
two telephoin fs Instead of one In order
to reach alf tho people.
The local tttuation at present Is this.
The larger 'telephone company has al
ready acqu'r-d ownership of the com
peting systc mi In Seattle, Tacoma, Bel
lingham, Bt Ut Lake City and. several
other plac s, and Is negotiating for
thosa Is Lik-w AnBreles. San Francisco.
Oakland, Sp (kanel Portland and the sur-
::, SJlAliL CHANGS.
Tt saloons never close p on January
-Old Granddadriv Tim vii).
vn.)nn , 7' --'. " ""."V""-
.vlrvb hPPr w Tearfor
... v a ' a .::'' 'i W '..,",
. Bplte of too much politics, 111! may
w aws-w s vuu ' yenr,
II.Ma akl. 111, .
duihw uungs mia oountry ! narer
nun vi, ona 01 inem is colonels.
After thv holidays noml will have
mvro money, many win hay less.
k , .a a .
It is said mainy broke men are trying
to go east out of tha refrigerator Into
a a ' ... "
Apparently the favorite way of Col
ons .tiuuBcveii 10 procure peace is to
- a a
In th mind of some deteotlves a few
Slightly suspicious circumstances are
fcnougu. 10 justify hanging;, man.
Man SPntnCiTld lrfe Tmnrlsonmeni
in now iwk una wno nas servta Jtt
years, has been found innocent and dis
charged. But the law can't give him
baok those 16 years. '
- a
The Interstate commerce commission
can't understand the United Btates su
preme court's decision In- the Willam
ette valley lumber rate case; .nor, prob
ably, can anybody else. .
a a. .
Now Bla: Tim Sullivan of New York
li not Quite a model man; he's a ward
politician and owns saloons, and Is boss
ot the Tammany clan;. but when the
final round-up comes, one needn't feel
surprised If ho shows mora treasure
banked above than many Dlouewlse. Kv-
itry Christmas he feeds many thousand
of poor, and gives thorn socks and shoes;
every summer sends thousands on pleas
ure trips fine, to dispel tneir poverty
blues. Hig Tim may be a rather bad
man In some of" his works and ways,
but there's surely a big good, streak In
mm, to give thousands of poor happy
days; and so 1 wouldn't dare to say
that when he "cashes In," the good he
has done wouldn't sink tho beam and
lift his load of sin.
; i V ' OKEGdy BLDKUGUTa. :
' Pallas' school population In 13tXn
. -a ; ., .': ! - - '
C. N. Smltlt Is publisher of the' Currv
county Leader, a paper recently, founded,
and isftued weekly. at uuigiois.
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,A neno firm has let ths contract for
a cold atoraire nlant at Iakevlew. 2
63 feet with provision for enlargement,
Washington county's school census
discloses 7640 "persons of school age, a
gain of 528. Hlllsboro has 816 and. For
est Grove 75-- , ---
A revlvafls In progress at the Meth
odlnt church at Tha DaHes. At the
Olu-lstian chnroh a revival series will
be opened January 4. .
FnUrnrlaa Renord Chleftan! Ed Hart
slaughtered two "pigs" a few days ago
that tipped the scales at 840 pounds.
Not so bad 'for Volga" Just-past a y'
Old. . '
ti.in T)-latpr- Mavor Barter has
signed up the 387 100O municipal bonds
and they hav been sent back to Seattle-.
Tim monev, is expected to b forthcom
ing. In a short time.
Th .rri.r at the Albany Herald is
sued an address on Christmas to their
friends and patrons. It was written by
the Herald's "devil," who contrived to
itet no end of genuine humor Into 800
lines of verse.
Th. nrn. riTr r"niirter obtects to tha I
tennis court In the publlo park, saying: j
The tennis court simply ruins the beau
ty ot tha whole park xne wire
Is most unsightly and svery blade of
grass is tramped out.
m
rv. nu nuh ninK nffers a veal's
subscription to the person bringing in
the heaviest five potatoes. The same
offer Is made for carrots and winter
tnmlna The Globe's object Is to collect
a Curry county products exniDii.
WW
Vtnnif. TTernld- Th Schramel A Da-
vles Lumber company Is Just finishing
a shipment of three cars of heavy tim
bers of extra len'gth to Fort Stevens, to
be used for Jetty construction and other
work at tne mourn or tne wuiumui.
Wanton Pood De
struction
From tha Detroit News
SEVEN SACRED BOOKS
Three Vedas of Uie Hindus.
The Three Vedas are the most an
cient books of the Hindus and It is
the opinion of eminent- scholars that
they are older than the eleventh oentury
before Christ "When the Indian branch
of tbS Aryan family settled down In
the land of the seven rivers, now the
Punjab, about the fifteenth .century B.
C:, their religion was practically nature
worship. It was little more than ador
ation of the forces which were every
where In operation around them for
production, destruction ' and reproduc
tion. But It was physlolatry develop
ing Itself more distinctly Into forms
of theism, polytheism,', anthropomorph
ism and parithelsm.
The Hindus thousht of the phenom
ena of nature as something more than
radiant beings and something more than
powerful forces. They were addressed
as kings, fathers, guardians, friends,
benefactors,- guests. They were Invoked
In formal hymns and prayers In set
meters. These hymns were composed
In the early form of the Sanskrit lan
guage at different times perhaps dur
Iiib: several centuries, from the flf-
fl 1, 9 1 m -
LZ, '. r t 11 ' ne' I enjoined. But the tendency is to
mill vvt nlrs thla kai.nl ...ill 1 i. : v . . 1 . ..
uiuaii tuiuug into war(1s RnMIPrlnir
permanent clearing, by eating off
the spring and summer sprouts and
so killing the stumps left In the
ground; ; ,,,. L.
And, finally, goats are the easiest,
of all farm stock, and the cheapest,
to carry safely through an Oregon
winter, for they are hardy and well
clothed. '
FRENCH
HO.VTE - BUILDERS
a-
THE French republic helps Its
peasant and working men cltl
zens to obtain their own- homes.
Three- years ago a law called
the Ribot law was passed, and its"
actual working is proved.
The state lends money to such cit
izens at the low rate of two per cent
per annum. He repays the advance
sloo and short course work of.the'at such a rate that In between ?n
Agricultural college the support and 25 years he has a'clear title to
i ttractically of the effort to set the I his home; The state lends onlv to
- expert, agriculturist at work in all the poor man and the amount 13 lim-
"Centers in tne state,
i Next surely must come land clear
I lng, and this not in little spasms of
; Individual efort, but in a business
J. like and organised fashion'. Mining
Is. very well for those who" are calred
to it. . But .'what mine comes .near
. in value to .the uncleared land of
western Oregon?
5 , Who-can,, forget good roads? Let
I sometimes - be-content - to ttoUow
; "where spme other man "leads and
Tho World Scout movement has
for father Sir Francis Vane, him
self a soldier, who volunteered for
the Boor war, and brought back two
medals and five crosses for h Is gal
lantry. But Ho brought back also
the conviction that the ancient di
vision of people' into, natives and for
eigners Is all wrong. That there are
no foreigners but all people ape
just folks, human .beings, with the
same hopes, fears, ambitions and de
sires. So the World Scouts are boys,
and. in othc fa they will be allowed to
go to ruin ;is a "horrible example" of
the "folly'- f granting franchjses to
"Independent" companies. This latter
method wps tipod a number ojt years ago
In Detroit,. 'Michigan, and In Toledo,
Ohio, and IN fbcing uwed today in Seattle.
As soon fh the Portland independent
system is a ('quired by the larger com
pany, the Tfites .will fly skyward, "the
service, wfc "h Is bad enough now, will
grow wora and the public will have
no means ' ff redress. An example of
this was g! yen In this city after the old
Columbia r,(mpafiy was purchased by its
competitor.. , t
Seattle San Francisco are pre
paring to )lve the difficulty by oper
ating muni' llpal telephone exchanges. A
very few y jars will show this to be the
only woluti tn. Good and efficient ser
vice can b., I given at an actual cost of
$1.50 per 3rlonth per telephone, all over
1 this being . livldends to the corporation
on Its wateB ed stock. There is no rea--son
why tlaia city should not purchase
the present ;', automatic system (if It can
be obtained at a reasonable figure)' or
build one rff Its own. By giving good
service at) ,al low, figure, the older 00m-
pany wouUl fe compelled to meet the re.
tluced rent 1.1 price or retire from fmr
field. Tie, older company could be
forced to give long distance service,
.thus glvt: If? the people the benefit of
their enti ro -system outside the city
until such.Hilme as other arrangements
are made.
Of cour objection will be made hy
some to t e municipal ownership Idea,
but munlc pal telephone systems are a
success in ya number of Canadian cities,
and a Irtt e number of cities, In this
oreanized for kindlv and couraewin !r 1 y " 0 wwuia
organizeu ior jtiuuiy ana courageous Uiese .An p perg0ns want to see the
acts, regardJess of nationalltywand, ! water syst tmsor postoffice department
In a few months over 50,000 Of them ! controlled by private corporations as
haveboon enrolled I tney once 'vere? 1 anl not ln favr of
nave Deen enronen. , I municipal. .wnerahlp of all utilities un-
One morning, the writer says. heider existil iig conditions, but I consider
road in the London papers a story 1 the telepl.ono situation too Important
n. n,A . . . I to. the bus; (pness Interests of the city to
of a thirteen-year-old boy who. had ;,. unrated . ff.r..t
lmmiarra.nts. who were afterwards nem
In . the' highest veneration as patriarchal
saints.
Eventually the hymns were believed
to have been directly revealed to, rather
than cbmoosed by. these Rlshls, and
were then called divine knowledge
(Veda) or the eternal word heard and
transmitted by them. These Mantras
or ' hymns, were arranged ln three prin
cipal collections or continuous texts and
bfcanje known as the Three Vedas, tfro
sacred books of the Hindus. "
The first and earliest was called the.
Rig-Veda. It was-a collection iki
hymns, arranged for mere reading or
reciting. This was the first Bible of
the Hindu religion and the special Bible
of Vedlsm. Vedlsm was the earliest
form of the religion of the Indian
branch of the great Aryan family.
Brahmanlsm grew out of Vedlsm. It
taught the merging of all the forces of
nature ln one universal spiritual being
the only real entity which, when un
manlfested and impersonal, was called
Brahm (neuter). When manifested as
a personal creater, this being was called
Ifrahma (masculine), and then mani
fested ln the highest order of men, was
Called Brahmana ("the Brahmans.")
- ; From tha Detroit Nsws,
. M. J.. Maloney' president of the De
troit Retail t Grocers association, is
authority' for . ths Statement - that two .
carloads , of eggs wers recently taken
from cold storage, and destroyed, '
From that statement several deductions .
may be drawn. Ths first U that eon- '
slderlng ths nuallty of eggs that, are '
often put upon the consumer, those two
carloads must ; have been very bad In
deed. .. The chief Interest, hbwever, Ilea .
In the explanation of this over storage. '
Mr. Maloney explains that 'these eggs '
were not put on the market While they
were fresh because- had they been of- .
fered for sale "they " would have de
moralized the price of the commodity.' ;
One must gather from this that the
morals of tha market must always be
tn a precarious state. Eggs In a fresh 1
state are ene of the most wholesome of
food produots. They may .be .utlluied mt
In a multitude of ways. In a' city of
the slie of Detroit there Is always "
demand for fresh eggs ; at the hospi
tals and at a, score or so of charitable
Institutions where the normal demand,
for." foods is always somewhat in ex
cess of the ability to furnish. Those
eggs might have, been boon to scores
of invalids, . convalescents, old , people)
and to hundreds of orphans,' Ttfer
would have been useful for consump-
-tloTi at the almehousesr Tylunm an4
even the penal Institutions. They wonl4
have benefited hundreds of poorly noww '
lshed children ln the crowded, homes si
the poor.-- . ''vl'V;'1-.''.:'.-.
, But no consideration of Utility .
charity enters into business ealcul- v
tlons. An oversupply of eggs to tho : ,
extent of two carloads mightv if loft
to the unrestricted market, have caused,
the ruling price to drop fron-twenty-'"'
five cents to twenty cents for a day
or two. Buch a reduction would have
stimulated consumption. For "two - or y.
three days families which could not af
ford a liberal feeding; of . eggs for
twenty-five centsa a doen - would ,
take advantage of tno reduction and
benefit accordingly. The probability is
that having found by aa unusual indul
gence how wholesome eggs ..are, con- . ,
sumption would have continued above
the normal rate for several days there
after, but the agencies which control
food prices are af rala to take me sugni-
est chance of abatement. . Better a
complete and wholesale loss ty spoiling
teenth to the tenth, B. C by men or luie substitute for the self-excltlng
light and leading ajriong : the Indo-Aryan Shouts of tho Shaman priests qf-'an
Brahmanlsm .was rather a philosophy
than a religion, and ln its fundamental
doctrine was spiritual Pantheism. Hin
duism grew out of brahmanlsm. It
was lirahmanism, so to speak, run to
need :and Fpread OBt Into a -confused
carnations Personalities and In-JthAn voluntary lowering of -the prico
The Yajur-Vedtt, the second in Im
portance of the three books, are partly
metrical and partly prose, , If repre
sents the growth of ritualism or sacer
dotalism. The main object is nd longer
devotion to the gods themaelves, The
sacrifice has become the center of
thought Its nusjlc power la .conceived
to be a thing "per sj," and every de
tail has become all Important' In fact.
and ln brief, the Yajur-Veda means the.
uemcauon or the sacrlfloo In every de
tail of act and word.
The Rama-Veda, the last, la the least
clear of all the Vedas. Its stanzas, or
miner groups of stances, are known as
"saman!,';,., (.melodies). They are pre
served in tnree forma. The eaman-mel
ody and the exclamations Interspersed
among the words may, therefore, be
for even a day or two below, the dictated
rate decreed by prloe-mklnaj . commit
tees. When. one considers the feet that
tod large a per cent of tha population
is "underfed beoause of tho reign of
high prices the'wehton destruction of .
wholesome- food ln ear lots- takes on
the aspect of a crime against, society,
and as the condition grows upon us as
a nation, it will sooner ornate "be so
declared by law. y
Tanglefoot:'
By Mile
Overhoh
earlier time,
Tho basis of the Vedlo peligion Is
nature worship. Each elejnent Is del
weu, iji3 ure as tgnithe dawn as
Lsnas, tho sky as Vanina, and the light
r ino stormas Indra. A single
obJtx:t ln iiatureliay be represented by
Aside front' the three canonical Vedas
mere is as fourth which Is uncanonlcal
whlclwifight be styled a Veda of magic,
called tho Atharva-Veda. It ls'.fjlled
mi manner or charms and Incan
tations ror wealth and for children
for long life-and good health, for love
ana ior revenge, charms for plants, anl.
mals and diseases, curses and m'u
dictions for the destruction of enemies
and for counteracting the enemy's black
magic.
Linguistically and chronologically far
ii.ur man me lug-veda .the material
01. me Atnarva-Veda Is In. all prob-
auuny as 01a in some of Its parts aa
tho most ancient portions of tha Rla-
It In an invaluable document for early
Hindu religion as tha oldest
01 us popmar raith:
lted. The borrower must have In
hand one fifth of the cost' of the
house and the stale lends the re
mainder. He has to keen uo a life
gone into a burning house and car
ried out a baby -a risk that grown
ups feared to take. The father of
the baby offered the boy money. He
g. b. ir.
Itemari tblo Figures If True?
Klamath Falls, pr.t Dec. 29. To. the
4 .... ' TVa . TAttmol. A
refused it, -saying. "No, its my 'Job, I WOrtTiy cot respondent : defend hanging
I am a World Scout." - - by rocours t to the Bible, while others
If.
us some o. I our opponents claim, laws
Sfime old woman needs nHntln ! iually coi.nbat It from the Bible.
across a London street. Perhaps a
cat or dog must bo rescued J'roin
cruelty.' Perhaps a' child has to
If ho dies the insurance be fished but from the river Thames.
insurance polIy for the full sum
while any part of the""debtis'"6uV
standing. If ho dies the insurance
money goes q repay the state and
fcfie house becomes tbe.-property of
the widow. J . .. -"
Thus, If a nfan has $160" he can
borrow from the state $640, and
Perhaps a run away, horse breaks
loose. . Therf the : World Scout finds
hfa ... chance, .... .They .are .-- physically
trained, are taught fo swim, aye
taken Into the country to camp tnd
are ordain d --by God, then muder is
sanctioned thy him, ...If .thy brother or
hy wf(e;Vl thee to' serve another
god. "Thou shalt Surely kill him." .Thou
shalt stonjrt' hUn "tillhe die." "Thou
sbalt slay fold and young." "Thou
shalt run then! through -with .". the
sword-": Vi jho:: was-lt -Wiled- the man
for" picking t up chips on the Sabbath?
Who was It i killed the man for touching
the sacred tarkf We can not accept
morality from your Moses. His his
tory begins with a murder. He butch
ered thousands of helpless men, wom
en and children. Away with such char
acters as an -example for people of the
twentieth century to follow.
. The church has been sending unbe
lievers,to hell for zuuu years ana nave
they checked criminals? No.
Does their teaching hold . ln check
criminals? Let us see. In 1905 there
were 332 prisoners in, Oregon. There
was one free thinker and one infidel
with 115 claiming nb creed and the rest
church people. "
In 1910 there were 901 prisoners In
Wfljihlneton. with 9 heathen and 23
no religion. That leaves 869 church
members in the pen. In 1908 there
were In California 2711 prisoners and
2424 of these were church people. I
could go on Indefinitely, but this Is
enough. , Our dealings with criminals
must" be to reform, not to punish.
.Punlshinent is vengeance, brutality,
Only animal instinct. - lo you believe a
criminal ever came from a good home?
I trow not' Not,, unless society turned
him out so.
A man must make a chum of his
boy. He should not rrequent places
where he would not take nls boy. Its
up to the home and the school to save
tho boy. The church and Sunday school
have utterly failed.
Governor Wst must have the sup.
port, and demands it, of every intelli
gent man and woman, and, most of all,
our schools, in his psychological way
of deallnar with the unfortunates of
society.
He has not lived In vain who re
forms a downtrodden life, or kindles
to flame one latent spark of happiness
within a human breast.
f . F. B. SMITH.
Noi authority is quoted for the fig
ures ln the foregoing letters. Proof
of their' authenticity would have to be
presented before they would find gen
eral acceptance.
Receives Too Much Boosting;
Sherwood. Or., Dec. 29 To the Ed
itor of The Journal. It seems. that
Portland is now, and has been for some
time past, "getting the effects of a lot
of misrepresentation - In the shape of
advertisements scattered all through" the
eastern states. The results are an army
of 5009 unemployed and half starved
people lured here by tales 'of plenty of
work-and big wages and cheap land,
any one- of which Is a fake.
Borne of Uieadef tlslng Funi like this:
"Carpenters' wages In Portland, $7per
day." -
;Whea Tom Lawson -went back east
Tomorrow The Eddas 'of th
ttinavians.
J 1 T
after a two months' trip through Ore
gon, he said to the easterner, "do out
west. The Opportunities are everywhere
along the road, along the creek, on the
nuifciue ana most every old place." IJut
..o aucu 10 uuu mat one. must have
considerable capital., We ' ;an't df?ny
that the opportunities are many for tho
man with soveral hundred dollr ti.
the man coming here with only a little
'""' "'an enougn to pay his fare will
find the opportunities very few And
I ask why not give the whole truth of
me situation, wnen sending advertis
ing matter to tho east?
Portland and Oregon are good enough
to stand on their own merits. And
surely Buch misrepresentation of the
facts can do the city or state no per
manent gooL
The real victims of "these glaring ad
vertisements are the Innocents .
CHARLES DEVERELU
Largest Cargo of Lumber.
Bend, -Or., Doc. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal. To settle a dispute
would you kindly print ln The Journal
tho largest cargo of lupnbtr loaded in
any vessel on tho Pacifio coast? 1
says there has been more than 3.000,-
000 reet loaded on vesels on this, coast.
B says not. J. F. B.
On .October IS," 1910, the British
steamer Knight of the Garter left the
Columbia river for Shanghai with a car
go of .-6,000,000 feet of lumber, the larg.
tst cargo of lumber shipped front any
port in the world. The cargo was load
ed at mills ln Portland harbor.
Any number of steamers have carried
lumber cargoes from" Portland measur
ing 3,500,000 feet and occasional car
goes of 4,000,000 feet .are dispatched.
The average tramp steamer ln the lum
ber trade carries about 3,200,000 feet.)
The Problem of tho Unemployed.
Portland, Or., Dec. SO.To the Editor
of The Journal: Among many excel
lent editorials, appearing . ln The Jour
nal from tlmfjto time, I note In your
iBsue of the "th, two: "The Worklessv?
and "Can We Do Worse and in lssVe
of 28th: "Five Thousand Reasons'
which are exceptionally timely and, per
tinent. 1
""They" strike -ihe nail.'sauarely on tne
head, and; have'' evidently .produced re
sults. ' ;" ' ; . ' ' -,; .- ..... .,t
That-nail, however, 1 set In a knot
cxtrejnely dlffic'ult-.of -penetration,, but
when l-U -.la7.' f lnall- driven homer -the
problem of unemployment will .be
solved, and the wan spectre of poverty
and want will disappear from the earth.
S - . ' - V. B. MATHiJffS,
' -.-
ONWARD AND UPWARR - - -
r Tuiior-haaaii b. railroad ln Arrenttne
From -a fellow whose purse was exoeed-
Jngly lean. . - .
He neirtd the coin to get something to
And toaVd him to eoverjds jOWtrowln
So I 'purchased the railroad."
I traded my railroad in Argentine
The entire deal was "unslght and n-
For af rubber plantation with trees Oil ,
-23ftrow -
In 'a wild, :reokles region la Old
Mexico . . - '. . , ..
I traded my,, railroad.
When a friend of a friend with a gold
' mine for sale . '
Tackled me for a trade, with a pitiful
tale
t took: a n'ult deed to tho mine In Brail
For my rubber plantation, tho trees and
good will; ,
" So the rubber was his. ,
Then a man who'd dlsoorerea an aspnae
turn Dea " .
Said he'd trade for my mlna "Bron UP
bo," ho'sald. , . .
The bed was somewhere ln tho poutn
Philippines, .
And one couldn't get mere wunow Hy
ing machines;
But I traded the mine.
The asphaltum bed was a druSF and a
loss, . ' . ' .
So I traded It in On a pitch and a toss
For a rich bed of pearls near tho Wild
Sandwlcn isies.
With a straight guarantee Hto war
twenty-oda styles - 1 1
Twas. a bed for a bed, , "j'
Tear followed tho years and tha pearls
stnved In bed; .
Great visions of wealth no more) entered
my head. - . .
Came a geezer on day In tno) sronesx
or cars. . . .. . x
With an offer to trad m a Dig oho ..-
Jdars; . . ,
So I traded my pearls. . -
My holdings get. farther and 'farther
They're enhancing in Talus, no doubC
every QBLjt r
So rm hoping some dy. slnco Mars is
so high, . ' '
I can trade in rny land for a home la
the sky-r- - - ;
For the, sweet by and by.
Tho Coffee. -J
, From the Touth's Companion,
mv,- nthar morning, at the breakfast
iv. -Kir 5?kinins's. who was ln a highly
self satisfied mood, remarked to Ms
wife: b -' y
'"What if I were one of those bus-
bands, my dear, who get up cross in ,
ti,, Tnornlne. bang things around, and
kick because the coffee is cold T"
"Why," "responded Mrs., ekillings,
sweetly "I Bhould make It hot for you."
A Surprise for Congressmen
From the Minneapolis, Journal.
Congressmen who visit the isthmus
look with astonisnment ana aimosi,.
with awe on Colonel Goethals It is dlf-.
ficult to understand a man wno is noi
trying to make a million for. himself
out of the f situation. -t- .-tr-
Tke Yqung Year
t wish you a happy year, but It will
1 hoin! I fear If you don't ret out
and hustle ln the good old-fashioned
way; all the wishes ln the land will
nnTbeln vou If you stand mooning like
a locoed gander, while the other put Up
hay ' Now the new, year's ushered In .
and a lot of boys will win fame and
honor by the bushel .ere it runs : Its -course
and dies, tout they won't bo stand
lng dumb waiting for a snap to come;
they'll be busy as 4h bumblers so will
you- if' you are wise! Oh, I wish you
peace and health, all varieties of wealth,
but I -don't believe you'H have theni If -you
don't get out and dig get up early,
ln the morn, saw your wood and shuck
rorrifc-writayour-name-.lo . golden
letters, on the shining thlngmyjig. Ton ,
will find this rul correct-revery man's
the architect of his fortunes -on this
planet; and while .wishe help alongt lie
won't wintheeherlshedgQal,.jron,'i-ac
cumulate a roll, till h goes and does
bl duty With whoopsydoodlo song!
Orrrlicbt. "ItlJlj'by .
Ceorge Uatuiaw 4dams.
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