THE OREGON. DAILY . JOURNAL, PORTLAND, ' TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY ,23, 1912.
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What, when our time comes,
doe It matter whether we have
fared daintily or not, whether
,t we have worn soft "raiment or
not, whether 'we loave a gr-nt
fortune or othtng at all, wheth-
er we shall have reaped honors
or, been despised, have been
Counted learned or ignorant
' as compared wlti. how we may
have used that talent which has
been entrusted to us for the
"Waster's service What shall It
' matter when eyeballs glass ana
ears grow dull. If out of the
- darkness may stretch a hand,
u nd Into the silence may come
. a -voice: "Well done, thou good
and faithful servant: thou hast
been faithful ovrr a few thing's.
I .will make thee ruler over
1 many things, enter thou Into
r the Jdy of thy Lord." Social
J?roblems
the country hM changed mightily
since home nils' waa defeated, not
many years ago, In one phase of the
rising Imperialism of the British na
tlon. Self government Is now In the
air. In South Africa It has proven
Its worth. In India the nation makes
no secret of Its approval of the prln
clple. The defeat of the lords, or
rather their surrender at the last
moment, It but another example of
the home rule Idea. The voice of the
national majority was heard In two
elections, confirming the Liberal
government In Its seat. If home
rule was not the express Issue on
which the government went before
the people it was dragged by the op
position in both England and Ireland
into the arena. The people are ripe
for the decision In the coming spring.
And the opposition are now making
their first big mistake.
What a regular Donnybrook Pair
of a meeting we Bball see!
NATIONAL WASTE
ENATOR ALDRICH said he
could run. the United States
i (.government for 1300,000,000
Only fifteen years ago, Grover
I Cleveland ran the government for
' "660,000,000 a year less than It now
"tosts. The national expenditures are
now nearly three times as much as
.the. average during Cleveland's seo
. ond administration.
e'Only twenty-three years ago,
-JQrover -Cleveland ran the govern
jaent for one-fourth the present an
nual expenditure. The average cost
"daring his firs administration was
-about $800,000,000 less per year
than our present expenditure.
-When Senator Aldrich "ald he
ould run the government at a sav
Vlng of $300,000,000 a year, he un
doubtedly spoke with full knowledge
JJnd stated the facts. Is there any
reason why that $300,000,000 a year
' should not be saved?
INSULTING FRANCE
rF It be true that a French mail
steamer, plying between Mar
seilles and Tunis, both being
j b i cutu yurus, was eioppua oy
Italian destroyers In the Mediter
ranean, and Turkish Red Crescent
jiurses taken off her, then the Ital-
Jana must be either mad or playing
I for Intervention.
If the Paris news is confirmed that
, the status of the Turkish nurses on
fboard that ship had been previously
discussed by the French premier
. f,and the Italian ambassador, and that
-the latter had been assured of rigid
crutlny of the honesty of their al-
tleged calling, then the affair passes
: j f rom the stage of injury to one of
Insult It would mean that the as
surances of the French premier were
' cdincredited by the Italians.
' Again, If It be true as also stated
, ?that a town on the Syrian coast has
Jbeen bombarded by an Italian war
CehjD, then Italy will have given cause
''for intervention to all those Eu
ilropean powers which refrained from
, (Opposition to her plans before war
iyriB declared. Their non-action was
secured by assurances that the war
would be confined to the invasion
v and occupation of Tripoli and Cyren
fjica. It remains to be seen if now Tur
nkey would accept that intervention
Jwhich she invited in the first In
stance, " The vigor and tenacity of her re
siutance have involved Italy In the
icost and losses of at least one serl
fous, campaign.
V Now the Turks protest that no
rmoney' concession for Turkish terri
tory In Africa will be entertained
for a single moment. Since one or
'other of the combatants will have to
back down to end the war, and as
end it must, later if nnt sooner, some
.middle ground of neutral concession
. must be found to "save their faces."
'The sooner intervention of other
rpowers, and a conference to settle
terms, can be brought about the bet-
j ter for the world.
MARSE HENRY'S DEMOCRACY
C
OLQNEL HENRY WATTERSON
sat for an hour Saturday night
in the lobby of a Washington
hotel and chatted with Champ
Clark. No effort was made at .con
cealment. The purpose was to make
the country know that the colonel is
for Speaker Clark for the presidency,
and thereby to convey a dull thud
to the hearts of other candidates.
Following closely on the sorrow
the colonel feels over Woodrow Wil
son's break with Colonel Harvey, the
Kentuckylan'a chat with speaker
Clark looms up like Pike's peak.
Doesn't Colonel Watterson carry all
the Democratic principles in his vest
pocket? Hasn't he been for 40 years
the only colonel in the country who
knew what is a Democrat? Is he
not convinced, and has he not always
been convinced, that the Democracy
of Bryan, Wilson, Folk, and other
progressives of the party, is mere
veneer, and that the Colonel Guf
fys, the Colonel Sullivans, the Colo
nel Tom Taggarta and the distin
guished colonel from Kentucky are
the real Democrats?
There is no need to ask now why
Colonel Watterson is out wi'.h Wood
row Wilson. It is not a question of
Colonel Harvey, but the old issue of
what is a Democrat? The Democ
racy of Colonel Watterson is as hard
shelled as the armor of a tortoise,
and as impervious to new ideas as
a duck's back to water. It has for
gotten that the country has moved
forward, and it is still trying to bore
a square hole with a round auger
It is a Democracy that still thinks
the sun rises and sets on Manhattan
island, and that all aspirations that
come out of the west are the echoes
from Jungletown. It is a Democracy
that can no more move- forward than
an Alaska glacier and that no more
fits modern civilization than would
Noah's ark.
We all admire Colonel Watterson
for his picturesqueness and his tal
ents, but we advise Champ Clark, for
his own safety, to. beware of the
brilliant Kentuckyian's brand of
Democracy.
vered at that height. It was long
enough to demonstrate great execu
tion in the event of actual warfare.
The same ship ' recently covered
the entire French frontier In 14 H
hours, then went through dense fog
to Baden Baden and cruised over
that city for five and one half hours,
all without landing, it means that
a aerial battiesnip or the German
navy can arrive over London In
eight hours and over Paris In three
hours after a declaration of war
wife. The grounds of the proceed-,'
ing are not stated. - Pernaps they ;
are cruelty to a person in his sec
ond childhood. , . . v 4
J. Pierpont Morgan la spending the
rest of the winter in Egypt It is not
too much to expect that his art gal
lery will soon be enriched by the ad
dition of ono of the pyramids.
1 1 Comment AMD news in brief I
' SMALL CHANQK. : I QRKQON SIDELIGHTS ' I
A Michigan professor has worked
out a new alphabet. All right, ao
More to the point, two days of av-llon as h doesn't work out another
erage weather now makes certain
the mission of a German sky ship.
The new ships are equipped with
machine guns above and along the
sides of thj hul'.B. The guns are
of long range and so placed that
they can freely sweep the heavens
and the earth. They can fire at a
range of three to six miles, and at
a height of one to one and one half
miles. The vessel Is not only safe
at this height, but she can fire at
a slant of 45 degrees, and at that
angle a long shell propelled by two
thirds of its own weight, and plung-
ng with gravity, flies as straight as
an arrow. The arc of a projectile
so fired Is no greater than -that of
missile propelled by the heaviest
artillery at the earth's surface. This
absolute accuracy, says Hampton's
Magazine, with the lightest kind of
guns will make every ounce of the
aerial cruiser's ammunition kill or
destroy.
The new and deadly ar mechan
ism of the air should be stimulus
to the signing of international peace
treaties.
scheme like Ella Flagg
he'er, hls'er and hlm'er.
Young's
Dr. Wiley has been asked to define
hash. He may define It, but there
la some hash that no man can describe.
Sound the loud timbrel' and let
the goose hang high, while our own
Whitelaw entertains the Juke.
i i
' Letters From tlie
(Coinmnnlratlona aent to Tb Jonraal (or poh
11 cation In thin department ahould not eiceed
Sno wirda la length and muat be accompanied
by the name and addreaa or tb aender.) .
CAN WE DO WORSE?
E
MADAME'S HUSBAND
r
THE CHALLENGE
HOM the gods will destroy
they first make mad."
When the Ulster fighters
'of home rule, and their
"reactionary English supporters, give
, out that they intend to break up and
forcibly prevent the first home rule
meeting In Ulster in the coming cam
paign they issue a challenge which
1 -five sixths of Irishmen and a big
majority of English and Welchmen
stand ready to take up.
Free speech and free debate are
"gooi enough flags to fly, in the Brit
ish" Islands at any rate. It is a poor
. HAUBe. that will attempt suppression
, of 'Opposition by threats of force.
Who In their sober senses would start
i.' tight where the elemental forces
"of good government must be ranged
against them? Even If the present
"opposition . were in control of the
"central power they would have no
'alternative but to concentrate the
-whole police power of the nation in
defense of free speech, and open de
bate, If the issue were forced on
them by their opponents.
' Rut the political atmosphere of
T is with regret that we observe
that the third husband of Madame
Schumann-Heink lacks that, deli
cacy one is wont to expect from
one so situated. It Is deplorable
that such an one should be devoid of
that element of human sympathy for
the prima donna's eight ducklings,
so essential to congenial family life.
For, after all, the great diva is not
an "artistic temperament," a "soul;"
she Is nothing more than a lady
mother, whose chief comfort In life
Is the mother instinct and association
with her children.
"Those boys of Madame! Huh!"
rants the man whose one right to the
limelight is his position as Madame's
husband. "They have done nothing
but travel on the name of Schumann-
Heink. Helnrlch is an anarchist.
Why, the man who was the husband
of my wife before I married her, re
fused to live in the same house with
this fat, lazy Helnrlch!
'The whole trouble is that I in
sisted on being the Iiead of the
house. I would go to my wife and
say, 'I am your husband; It is I who
should be the head of this house and
not your boys.' I was noWhe head
of the ho'use. Huh!
"Since my marriage I never have
had a home I could call my own. My
wife was the breadwinner. I was
her employe, and she and her chil
dren never lost an opportunity to
tell me about it, to humble me, to
Insult me."
It is, indeed, a tragedy of the lu
dicrous! Where is a regular, li
censed humorist to compose an im
mortal ballad, "I need the money,
but I can't stand the insults of them
brats!" However, let Madame's hus
band take heart. He is not the only
employe of his wife, confronted
with similar irritations.
SKY WAR
G'
ERMANY is master of the air
in fighting appliances. She has
an . aerial navy against which
no other nation could contend.
She has aerial warships, cruisers,
small cruisers and launches. She
has six aerial battleships of the Zep
pelin type, ranging in length from
385 to 490 feet. Their carrying
power is four and a half to five and
three fourths tons, and their maxi
mum speed 39 to 47 miles. Their
ability to fly without alighting Is
983 to 2000 miles.
In two years of target practice,
German experts have proved tha.t
from any aerial warship one mile
above the ground, absolute aim can
be attained. For eight hours on
October 27, the Zeppelin IX, the first
of the new aerial cruisers, maneu-
SCAPING two years ajro. an
Oregon convict who has since
been dodging officers, hiding
from the law, fearing by day
and by night that he would be cap
tured, recently went to the prison at
Salem and surrendered. Hearing
that It Is the policy now to help
men reform, he concluded to go back
to the prison, serve out his time, and
leave It honorably, so he could here
after look officers and the world In
the face.
Hearing of the unemployed In
Oregon, a boy convict of 17 in the
Salem penitentiary sent a dollar to
The Journal, and asked that It be
given to some unemployed, deserving
boy about his own age. He had
earned the money under the new
system of working all the convicts
in the effort to make the prison self
sustaining.
Three convicts working without
guards on the Crater Lake road es
caped the other night, and were cap
tured within three hours. No one
was so strenuous In pursuing them as
were the remaining convicts in the
road camp.
These are of a new kind of man
ifestation in convict life. Nobody
has heard of the like before. We
have all supposed that a convict was
a lost man, without one redeeming
trait, and beyond salvage. Evident
ly as men have often done before,
we must revise our views, and ad
mit that in some convicts there Is a
Rnnrlr nf vlrrno thnf oan ha tn.iAn
ln( w.-t-o. ... . munrty as Portland, which has neither
Into a living force, guiding the man the braln8, the conscience, nor the dis-
in new ana oeuer pains.
A Reproach to Portland.
Portland, Or.. Jan. 21. To the Kdltor
of The Journal No constant reader of
your paper can fall to note and to com
mend the liberal space and Intellectual
hospitality you give to all sorts of
Ideas expressed by "all sorts and con
ditions of men," not to say women, In
your department of "comrminlcatlons
from the people." So I want to con
tribute a word apropos of the late So
cialist banquet:
An esthetic but wicked Frenchman
once said, commenting- upon some act
of conduct of which he did not approve:
It is worse than criminal; It is in bad
taste!" Of course. Socialists must eat
Just like other people; probably to call
their "feed' of last Friday night a
"banquet" Is drawing the long bow
rather taut, still they did get together
for a Jollification to the tune of the
knife and fork and here Is where, to
the mind of at least one observer of
that episode, they showed exceedingly
bad taste unless, for every good husky
Socialist, there was one poor human
stray, actually sharpset and downright
famished fos a square meal, enjoying
the "banquet." In other words, a feast
to the well fed, whether given by So
cialists or by the exclusive society set.
Is In shocking- bad taste while the city
Is full of hungry folks who have not
the price of one decent meal. It la bad
taste. It Is downright vulgarity. The
day Is coming- when any community
which permits such cruel and blundering
misplacement of money and effort will
get what It even now merits, tlie eon
tempt of sane and esthetic humanity
everywhere.
An Incident lately occurred In a day
of Portland's history that ought to be
marked on the calendar with black let
ters shot with sulphur and red, indi
cating the flames of that fabled place
that long ago ceased to scare the Intel
ligent. Portland with Its abundant
wealth; with markets overstocked with
perishable food, crylns; to be eaten;
Portland, with Its leisure class becom.
Ing mentally and spiritually atrophied
for lack of an Intelligent interest in
the living problems of the day; Port
land, with Its brilliant (?) business
men and Its unlimited resources of all
kinds, rounded up was It 200? human
strays, drove them to the city limits,
penniless, foodless, worklcss, minus
everything that tends to the most or
dinary kind of physical comfort, to
shift for themselves. How?
The men who have paper titles to
wealth sufficient to Insure them against
the plight of the human stray, are fond
of decanting upon the Improvidence and
Incompetence of the human derelict
But what shall be said of the incompe
tence ana stupidity or as rich a com
Harvey Is also a colonel, observe. '
Into most lives soma east wind must
blow.
The dark horses are pricking up their
ears,
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Well, the middlemen must live, wa
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Even most east winds we have might
bs worse.
Hoblns are numerous In the country;
they know.
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Don't forget that other people also
have troubles.
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Why, there are signs of spring already
In the country.
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We know of a man who would imI
a aanay aiotator.
Most of our prominent men are pretty
good, decent fellows, after all.
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Is the Democratic nartv a.ffllntad at
last with too many great men?
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No doubt It hurt Colonel Harvey, but
better the straight tip sooner than later.
It's I
"crises"
south.
long time lately between
In the 30 cent republics -up
If the ergs come from China, some
Eeople wouldn't have them at any price,
owever good.
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Let's speak well, rather than ill, of
our public man; most of them are prob
ably trying to do about right.
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With delegates' expenses paid to na
tional conventions, people cam afford
to go who will blow out the gas.
R. A. Clark of Union has taken a
.contract to expert the books of the
county officials of Union county. '
Central Point Herald: The local post
office shows an Increase in general bus
iness of 10 per cent over last year, with
a 20 per cent increase In the money or
der business.
Albany Democrat: Albany Is so big
it can have a show, a Jubilee concert
two moving picture shows with fuli
houses and numerous social affairs, all
in one night.
. .e .
Eugene Register: Indian Charley, a
well Known resident of the upper Wil
lamette, has killed six cougars thus far
this winter and this helps considerably
in getting rid of the greatest enemy the
uoer nave.
,i
Marshfleld- Record: The logging con
tractors are all feeling In the best of
spirits over the excellent work In get
ting their cuttings -out.- One man said
the run was the best and quickest ever
known here.
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Myrtle Creek Mail: A bantam hen
belonging to A. S. Aderton laid an egg
In a box used for a pigeon's nest. The
pigeons proceeded to set on the egg and
hatched out a chick, whioh they havo
proudly adopted as a bird of their own
kind.
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Yamhill Record: Extend the hand of
welcome to every newcomer; don't for
get -It. We have a goodly land to Invite
them to, but It makes a difference in
the looks of the landscape if the people
"grin and shake and say hello."
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The Clatakanla Telephone company Is
erecting a building In Clatskanle to be
used as the telephone office, the busi
ness having outgrown its present quar
ters in the drug store. The oompany
also expects to put in a thousand feet
of cable, with each phone on a single
line.
, Civilization Japan's
SEVEN FAMOUS DWARFS
Richard Gibson.
The prison policy of the states and
the nation as pursued for 122 years
position to face so simple a problem
as providing- employment and supplies
for 200 Idle and destitute-human be-
Inira? tan anu InnAmnatanna Im
has failed. It has not checked crime. I providence of the "lower classes" malch
The torturing of men, visiting cruel ! that?
barbarities upon them, whippings " the Socialists had held, Instead of
j ,,,. ,, . , " , a banquet, an indignation meeting; polnt-
and solitary confinement have in-!iff out tne inability of a great city like
creased rather than diminished I Portland to throw off an attack of
crime. The hounding of convicts in municipal dyspepsia caused by 200
Human Beings wnicn it couia not digest,
prison, and the continued hounding
of them after they leave prison, have
been fruitful only of more crime.
Maybe we have been wrong. May
be the constitution of Oregon, framed
by the pioneers in those early days,
was right when it said "the punish
ment of crime shall be founded on
the principles of reformation, and
not on vindictive Justice." Maybe
while it Is trumpeting abroad Its limit
less resources in order to lure more
people here. It would have been good
Socialist business. However, let some
banqueter write to your liberal paper
and Justify that Jollity on their part,
as perhaps they may be able to do.
ATTICA.
Slat ter Not Evil.
Sellwood, Or.. Jan. 20. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. XL W. Hast-
the reformatory Idea Is better than , InKs eeens to hold the idea that matter
the plan of cruelty and brutality. 18 evn- lrlnt, be " Qod created
The three Instances noted above 0f the du.t of " tin i 3 that
seem to Indicate as much. Why not makes God responsible for evil. And
give the plan a fair trial? Even if ihow shaI1 he then Judge man according
if chnnM foil it K .n,-- t0 tno deeds done 'in the body. Take
it should fail could it be worse Ilfa out of the and the body ceagps
than what we have always had? to do evil and still it is as much mat-
Can It be wrong, to. try to lift up ter as wnon It had life. Dead men do
a human being who has fallen? " t TH L ; . the
...... i.... VM. v4ivo. b.dd liiu ac
count of God creating the spirit man, and
in the spcond chapter the forming: of the
body. If that be true, then Ood creat-
A New York judge has decided
that Dedestrlans are not rfimiireri hv
law to dodfre vehicles In the strpet ld P'rlt whales and every living crea
law loaoage emcies m tne street, ture (Bee 0enesl9 1 21 an(1 27) wha1
uui wuiit? leveling uiv law niiu me
majesty of the courts and all that,
What
would a man without a body be? He
would be nobody, wouldn't he? After
our advice to the pedestrian is not to :a na1 creted man very living
in. us uiuh me cm in, ii9 jjiunuuncea it
very good. If matter is evil then In
place of being' very good it would have
been very evil. H. L. AHL.SON.
Richard Olbson, the dwarf and
miniature painter during the reign of
Charles I and Charles II of England Is
In many ways the most interesting of
the English dwarfs. He was a native
of Cumberland and became page to a
lady at Mortlake, who discovered his
talent for drawing and placed him un
der the instruction of Francis Cleln, the
manager of the tapestry works there.
His Interesting personality, his pic
turesque appearance,- and his remark
able talent attracted the attention of
Charles I and Henrietta Marie, and he
subsequently became their page. He
obtained considerable success as an .ar
tist, especially as a miniature painter.
Evelyn, the diarist in "Numusmata" ex
tols his powers. He also copied the
style and many of the pioturea of Sir
Peter Lely. He was an especial fa
vorite of Cromwell, who patronized him
and Gibson drew his portrait a number
of times.
Under Charles II Gibson 1 continued
to be a favorite at court, and he was
appointed Instructor In drawing and
painting to the Princess Mary and Anne
at Richmond Palace. When Mary was
married to the prince of Orange, on No
vember, 1877, Gibson, who was then
62 years of age, accompanied her to
Holland and remained in her suite for
some time.
Among his other patrons was Philip
Herbert, earl of Pembroke, who showed
him many favors. Gibson's miniatures
became famous. The dwarf was three
feet ten Inches in height and was for
tunate to find a consort in Anne Shep
herd, of the same height. The diminu
tive pair were married in the presence
of Charles I and Henrietta Maria and
the king gave the bride away. They
both lived to a great age and left nine
children, five of whom lived to maturity
and attained the natural sise.
On the 23d of July, 1690, died Rich
ard Gibson, aged 75, and 19 years after
ward his widow died at the advanced
age of 89. Nature thus, by length of
years, compensated this "compendious
couple," aa Evelyn terms them, for
shortness of stature the united heights
of the two amounting to no more than
seven feet.' Gibson was not only minia
ture painter. In every sense of the
phrase, but was court dwarf to Charles
I as well. His wife was court dwarf
to Queen Henrietta Maria. It was her
majesty who encouraged a marriage be
tween these clever but diminutive per
sons, the queen presenting her with
diamond ring, while Waller, the court
poet, celebrated the nuptials In one of
his prettiest poems:
Design or chance make others wive.
But Nature did this match contrive;
Eve might as well have Adam fled,
As she denied her little bed
To him, for whom Heaven seemed to
frame
And measure out this little dame"
The conclusion of the poem la very.
elegant:
"Ah, Chlorlsl that kind Nature thus.
From all the world had severed us;
Creating for ourselves, us two;
As love has me, for only you."
The marriage was an eminently happy
one. Gibson had the honor of being
drawing master to Queen Mary and her
sister Queen Anne His works were
much valued and one of them was the
innocent cause or a tragical event This
painting, representing the parable of
"The Lost Shepherd," was highly prised
by Charles I, who gave It Into the charge
of Vandevort, the keeper of the royal
pictures, with Strict orders to take the
greatest care of it. In obedlenoe to
these orders the unfortunate man put
this picture away so carefully that he
could not find it himself when the
King asked for It a short time after
ward. Afraid or ashamed to say that he
mislaid it, Vandervort committed sui
cide by hanging. A few days after his
death the picture was found in a spot
wnere ne had placed It
The last court dwarf In England was
a German named Coppernin, retained
by the princess of Wales, mother to
George III.
Tomorrow General Tom Thumb.
of the English language. Webster de
fines earth as the Inhabited terraqueous
globe; the solid material which compos
es the globe; ground; soil. He gives
the specific meanings also; but the above
is the general meaning to which we
apply the term. The Christian Scientists
use the term "real" in Its very narrow
est sense, to prove the very broadest
assertions.
There la a semblance of truth in
their talk about "the Illusion of the
senses;" but only in the narrowest sense.
Men can escape the "Illusion of the
senses" In a more rational manner than
inducing a corresponding illusion in the
mind. WARREN M'CUJ-JLOCH.
strictly stand on his rights.
A New York man is suing for di
vorce because his wife licked him
five times. IIi3 petition ought to be
granted on the ground that he was
mentally Irresponsible in that he
didn't know when he had enough.
When his wife, who hadn't spoken
to him for 25 years, asked a Ken
tucklan If he would have a cup of
coffee, he fell dead. Probably she
wonders now why she didn't think to
speak sooner.
They have dynamited the home of
a . Judge in Kentucky. After all,
most Judges would prefer the Oregon
or Arizona brand of Judicial recall.
An exchange suggests that the
climax of eternal fitness Is reached
when there is a cold storage menu at
a luncheon of pioneers.
ProfessoT Jack Johnsing Is having
trouble in getting a match
mighty scarce who want to be licked
$30,000 worth.
An eastern man advises men to
vote as they pray. Why further limit
the number that goes to the polls?
A Philadelphia octogenarian wants
divorce from his twenty-year-old
The Reality of Matter.
Portland, Jan. 20. To the Editor of
The Journal In Mr. Van Meter's at
tempt to prove the unreality of mat
ter, he has fallen Into the error com
mon to all Christian Scientists: 1. e., he
has used the word "real" only In the
narrowest, and one of Its most specific
senses. Webster defines real as actual
ly existing; not fictitious, genuine; true;
pertaining to things fixed, as land, tene
ments; not personal. Mrs. Eddy uses
the word real . to express her Idea of
that which is unchangeable, or that
which is continuous in the same state.
If the Christian Scientists would spec
ialize in chemistry, as they do in words,
they would learn that matter Is as per
manent, and therefore as real as mind,
or spirit They Would find that nothing
in the world of matter Is really gained
or lost; that matter, when subdivided
to the utmost, displays the qualities of
energy. And .if they will follow the
line of investigation far enough, they
will arrive at the conclusion that mind
itself Is only a higher .form of energy.
As they acknowledge that mind and
spirit are essentially the same, it seems
Man prove tne irum ut ,mcrsun s bibih
iviuii al M , , ..ai-i, i. --.i
an extreme thinness." (Emerson's es
says, "Experience,".)
Mr. Eddy says: "God, Spirit never
created matter." Here again she special
izes in one scriptural teaching, while ig
noring another. How about the book of
Genesis, wherein is the story of God
creating the heavens and the earth T No
doubt the Christian Scientist will say it
refers to the spiritual heavens and earth,
but let us refer again to ' our standard
How to Make Men Work.
Portland. Jan. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal The Bulawayo Chronicle
tells of trouble in South Africa. The
horny souled gentlemen who have gone
from England to South Africa to mo
nopolize the land are making a disturb
ance because the pesky natives won't
work for them.
Those speculators have acquired some
land in South Africa and want "cheap
labor" to work their lands, but can't get
the cheap labor, because the natives
have plenty of land for themselves. The
speculators say the natives are "idle and
debauched," and that they won't work
for others because by the easy terms of
land tenure in South Africa they "are
shielded from every economie law,"
which means what?
That the natives have not been fenced
off from the land, are not compelled to
beg for work and are not held down to
poverty by the law of rent. That Is, by
working their own land they can pro
duce enough to live well and don't have
to give up a large part of the product of
their labor for the privilege of using the
land. 8o the speculators have turned
in an alarm for the government to help
them put the natives into the same trap
with the workers in "civilized' countries.
They say they are threatened with a
state of affairs that "If it Is not speedily
rectified will mean ruin in the near fu
ture to many promising settlers, and
will give a setback to the agricultural
development of the country."
The shortage of labor complained of
by the speculators is not due to a lack
of able bodied men who can labor, but to
a Scarcity of able bodied men who must
work fo landlords on terms fixed by
the landlords. The speculators admit
that the natives work their own 'lands
enough to keep themselves in comfort
But the trouble Is the natives don't have
to work for the speculators in order to
keep the speculators In comfort.
"The native is the natural laboring
man of the country," say the specula
tors. Just what was said of the "nig
ger" in the south 40, 60 and 60 years
ago and soma say It now. But those
South African speculators have a rem
edy to apply to the natives, not to
themselves. This (Is the speculators'
remedy :
"Our British traditions do not per
mit of our using direct force to compel
an idler to become a worker, however
much It may be to his benefit." That
wouldn't do because the house of lords
would have to go to work. "Neverths-
factors exist which compel the white
man to continuous labor more effectu
ally then the most drastio laws of sla
very could do." Fine, isn't it? Just
what speculators and big landlords have
been denying for 26 years. But that
Isn't all. Here's more of the same kind:
"If South Africa Is to progress Indus
trially, there Is no doubt whatever that
the spur of economio pressure must be
applied to the mass of natives." And
what Is the scheme for applying "eco
nomic pressure" to the natives, so that
they will work on terms dictated by the
speculators? The simple plan of deny
ing them access to land, except upon
the terms of landlords, and then soak
ing them with taxes on everything they
produce. Drive them off the land, pile
taxes on them, keep them hungry, and
you have an automatic machine for turn
ing out "industrial progress." It has
chattel slavery backed into a cellar
and begging for a crutch.
And there's more trouble for those
South African speculators. While they
are trying to hog-tie the natives and
force them to work for the benefit of
some white men, by a system more ef
fectual than "the most drastic laws' of
slavery," the germs of single tax are
working in South Africa. At the city
election in Johannesburg last October,
the single tax captured the whole works,
and the city council will petition the
legislature for power to put single tax
in force for city, purposes.
Those "ignorant, misguided" natives,
able to live well by working part of the
time for themselves, refuse to work all
the time for the speculators. The spec
ulators want o bring them to time by
taking their lands away from them.
Now the pesky single taxers have cap
tured Johannesburg, and are getting
ready to say to the speculators: "Vou
fish or cut bait."
W. G. EGGLESTON.
lu" ia th peculator, "conomlo lady.
i . . ' i v . .
Single Tax.'
Portland, Or., Jan. 20. To the Editor
of The Journal The assessor of Linn
county thinks the single tax would
drive ships away from Portland. It Is"
not driving any from Vancouver, B'. C.
It is not driving them away from New
South Wales where 260 cities and towns
are on a single tax basis. Linn county
vacant lots and tracts are notoriously
underassessed. It would not drive pop
ulation or capital from that fertile sec
tion to tax land more and labor less or
not at all. Does he wish to debate
the question? Will he find some person
In Albany who will act as his substi
tute and debate the negative of the
proposition that the single tax Is Just
and right? If so, he can toe accommo
dated. If not, what Is the mattel
with him? After watching its opera
tion eight cities In British Columbia
followed Vancouver. No "black pall ol
the single tax" up there,
i ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
; ! How It Turned Out.
, From the Washington Herald
j, ri told that dub he was foolish to be
courting so many girls."
."How did it turn out?"'
"As you might expect His expenses
were so heavy that he got behind witll
his board and had to marry his land-
Fro m the Vancouver World.
JDr. Inaso Nltobe, Japanese exchange
professor at present lecturing at Co
lumbla university, told the members of
the Round Table club gathered in the
chapel of Teachers' college last night
that since civilisation and an enlight
ened government had come to his coun
try poverty had Increased among the
people and the resources for alleviating
poverty had deoreased. ' The Japanese
professor put an emphasis upon the
words civilisation and enlightened gov
ernment ' with delicate irony and
throughout the course of his brief ad
dress upon 'the stats cars of depend
ents In Japan the speaker Indicated
clearly that in Respect to the lot of
tne poor tne passing; of the old regime
of feudalism had not wrought a great
improvement. ,
He himself had not realised,- Dr. Nl
tobe said, Just how close to the ideals
of socialism his country had approached
until a Russian officer who had been
"Invited to lodge in Japan," after 'the
fall of Port Arthur, had called to his
attention the remarkable unity of all
the people of Japan into a slngld fam
ily. At the head of that family stood
one man, the emperor, whose single
word was potent to move 60,000,000 peo
ple into a single channel of action. "Not
because he is emperor alone," as the
lecturer explained, "but because we
Japanese have reason to believe that
he is a good emperor. My people do
not follow the will of the. emperor
blindly and like sheep, but they respond
to the will of their ruler because they
believe that he has been entrusted by
heaven to lead them."
But with all the communal spirit and
the cooperation of every unit in the
great family that constitutes the nation
of Japan there is great poverty there,
the Japanese professor said, and the
poverty Is greater and more widespread
than In the simple days before Japan
was opened to the Intercourse of the
world by Commodore Perry.
"Before the restoration (of the em
peror to real power in 1866) ' poverty
was not so common, because strict
sumptuary laws were enforced and there
was no luxury, the common breeder of
poverty," he said. "The family tie was
also stronger than It is now. and the
filial and family devotion prevented the
care of indigents falling upon the state.
The blind, which always have constitut
ed a large class of the poor in Japan,
ware privileged to such an extent that
a sort of sanctity clothed them; they
were allowed to have the highest seat
of honor at any family feast, whether
they were Invited or not, and certain
trades were made a monopoly for them.
Physicians were Invested with a power
somewhat similar to that of priests and
their work was presumed to be philan
thropic rather than mercenary, so that
they rtoelved gifts but never presented
bills,"
The coming of a new civilization to
Japan and the numberless attrlbu'rs of
a world power had changed all this. Dr.
Nltobe said. The sta- and the com
munity each made an effort to cope
wlin the great poverty that exists. Be
cauee of the frequency of great phys
ical calamities due to earthquake and
typhoon, with the consequent suffering
among the poor, the government keeps
always a permanent fund ouX of which
to dispense first aid. The emperor
himself, believing that heaven would
condemn him if one of his subjects was
starving or dying for lack of shelter, la
always the first to lead in contribu
tions whenever the constantly reour-
ling- disasters on sea and land occur.
There were no factory laws of any
consequence, though constant efforts
had been made to pass sucn through
parliament and Dr. Nltobe said that the
only progress toward the paternalism
of Germany toward the working man
was tha system of state Insurance for
employes on the national railroads.
Pointed Paragraphs
Isn't It surprising how little you
know?
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Some men nn for office aoe elk ass
win In a walk.
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It doesn't take a fast yenas; maar ten
to run through a fortune.
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If a easv for a man te ge wtom tf
he has no particular aim In life.
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It's difficult for a man to tret a sett
of clothes to fit him tf he doesnT have
the price
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The average wife harbors the delusion '
that most of the men she knows envy
her husband.
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After s girl has been a bride six
weeks she once more begins to seces
n:ze her former acquaintances.
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Some married men "look open borne as
a place to rest and some ethers get
anything but a rest while there
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And there are people whe never ar
rive at a conclusion until the under
taker is ready to take -their measure.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
OUT IN . THE ALLEY.
A mound of dirty snow above
Borne dark debris
Is all there Is remaining of
The Christmas tree.
Wa8hlngtonHerald.
In such a simple, easy way
We let you se
That our pronouncing Is au fait
Catch on? "Daybree!"
Chicago Record-Herald.
And Just to shJw you we are there,
We only say
That at pronouncing we're a bear
' Get It? "O fay!"
There are some thousand paths to fame.
That dodge the aftermath;
Some people choose the broad highway;
Home lane an osteo-vpatii!
Superlatives
(Contributed to The Journal bj Walt Maeon,
the famoui Kanaas poet. Hit proxe-poema are a
regular feature of tills column lu The Dally
Journal.)
I asked old Skaggs, who deals in
greens if he had any first class beans.
He struck an attitude and cried: "I'm
pointing to my beans with pride No
man e'er gathered from the vine such'
all-fired lovely beans as minel Seek
through the world, go east or west,
you'll find my beans are still the best.
And when at last your spirit flies tn
roam the gardens of the skies, you'll
find no beans, where hourls sleep, as
good as these I sell dirt cheap." I asked
old Skaggs 1 sTbout his peas. "You'll
never find such peas as these," he said,
"and when it comes to squash, no man
can rival me, b'gosh.- Canned pump
kin? Well, that's where I shinel There's
nothing half so good as mine, and this
here cheese oh, thunder, man I just find
its equal if you can!" His trade is fall
ing off. they say, and he'll go broke
some winter day, for folks don't like to
trad,e with Skaggs, who shows no Judg
ment when he brags. . .
Copyright. 19U. by A. J-fi
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