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1 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL., FUKTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY . 6, 1912. THE JOURNAL JACKSON .....-.. - I rrtrirb4 mrf evening ex-ept Bm,a,L.?,"? wry Unmbr Bonlii ! Tba Jml P0" 1ns, rifU r4 Xanalh trwt. Portland. Or. Harare it Mm p-offlra at Vta-?;j f" triumtnlaa tbroock taa Ua as. -ias atattar. '- l k! kphonks Main Ti7sj Hon - nil ur.JS t Tr t.A t-OKKlGM AUVKBTUSIMJ BBPBSSKNTATIVB. PonJ.mtn ft Kantnor Ob.. JB"""r. 'l!? ; Klftk avenrte, New lorkj I81S rspa enUrrtptton Terms bf nail or to aar sadresa ' la tba Calta Stats ar Maxleo. , On yaf .88.00 I Om strata. y.4....$ JSO :..,r, SUNDAY. One raar........ .8I.SO I On mnth. ...,... J . i. ..naitv mo arrjnaT. ' On rear...t.,..T.50 I On ottt -8 .SB , H that atanda upon a allppery - '-.' place, .. v .- Makes vie ot no vile' hold to , tay him up. .. ' Shakespeare.'.;; . ' THE LABOIt ETATEMENT; HE Central Labor, council should revise the publio statement it has sent broadcast throughout .-the. east.: ' t v-w ' Oregon is not a "great wilderness j of forest and mountains v : . There Is probably less destitution per capita . in Oregon than In any v other' state.'-K:?- '-r' ' j n-ratrr.yi U iuif In til millet of general reign of crime,, committed hv inlElsrt ami jlMnMau men: ' There is probably loss causa in i. Portland for the Central Labor coun cil public statement i than , in any other city in the country. t New York : City alone 1 as half a milUon unera- . pioyea men. unicago nw .ov,vvv. Al most every city of consequence bread llney i'A vi-.-"---1?" - " 'r'--K. The clamof '. for succor extends from New. York 'to Ban Francisco, and from Atlanta to ; Vancouver, Etriusn VyOiumDia. in Aixauva, luerw .were public calls for food, clothing and money for the poor and unem ployed, and I publio authorities took Recently .at ' Vnconyer, . British Columbia, the. army, of .unemployed . became so large that a church was improvised to shelter and feed them. f Tia.w slant rtti mM flira flnrti and were fed Irom a bread .line un til the provisions gave out ' The- re mainder went hungry until' public . committees? named ' for! the purpose secared more provisions for: their succor, ' Other committees canvassed the city, forlft eniplpymeh , JEorJhe " worklesa.,' ;j-t:.ft Znfri'M& i All ;"over,1 the' -world, there is ; a famine army. The & destitution I In Great Britain has occupied the' at tention, of government; for -months. In Russia; parent sold ttteir chil dren for: food.. - To publicly- brand ; Portland as a famine city, or a work less city is unjust, and. untrue.:' It' to ", probable that conditions are better i than in any city of Portland popu -elation in tha country.' ''V-Wm; . , 1 In this ..respect, the .Central Labor ' Union council's-'siatement , needs, re- , vision.: It needs, revision a , to r a . great reign of crime.". : It need ,cor- - rectlon in its .assertion that Oregon is a "wilderness of mountains' and rorests." :y.'r-VP7 : Oregon ha great f orests, "but they are an Asset, not a liability. They i cannot be . reduced to lumber wlth ,'ont paying about eighty per cent of " the proceeds ' to labor.' -" .:! ? ; The labor statement will be seized " upon in the east to discourage Immi- ' gratlon to this stabs. The eastern J as a means of keeping at home the people who are j looking - for new - homes in the west There will be ' plenty of publicity with a probable falling off In arrivals, of homeseek- ers. 4i v;; t'v ' '1fk:i-Y:-h " Oregon counties and Oregon pub lie bodies have for some yeara fcn deatored by eastern advertising 'ito people the state. e It f has a popula tion, of but seven to the sauare mile. Rhode Island has a population of ' more than 400 per square mile: It hu liMn thoutrht'? rnciA Tinhlln policy to get more people on the a land in Oregon. ; The propaganda of ( public bodies has been almost en tirely devoted to enlisting, the inter- est of manufacturers, and capital for tho cities, and especially for a popu lation that, would cut up the big tract - of land and divide them I among small farmers. J The statement of the Central La f bor Union council will do much to i undo that which has been done. : THE PASSIXQ HORSE HE horse Is disappearing' so fast from city streets that the spec tacle of his slipping and strain ing and falling on the frozen J surfaces will soon cease to be a re f proach. The farmer suffers. In the ! loss already ot at least one third of the city demand for hay. The. city ' will-be the cleaner for -the subBtitu- !' at al aVt-J. A. M a. '.' ..j' . vn m. a,av nuvv aLauL ,u utvvu A UvA ,the traffic will need less space cand "will be the-more easily and quickly conironea. iCM-rfit' The change has been long In com ing, but it come now with a rush. The greatest cities on both continents have passed the experimental stage; Uncle Sam Is Joining the ; procession and the government has, ; we read, appropriated $125,000 for motor iaa.b. la 'tka '" u. ii utAD m vu tuuuuaniim ucparo ment to replace the mule, s ;r ? ; New York bs arranged to proceed rapidly In her fire department and .will 'spend this -year '"upwards of $700,000 on power hose trucks and fire englnes.:,r;V-'t"v;;:;?r"Ivih.iiv''i " The streets of Portland give proof truck.; which Is beginning to oust the express wagon .In the collective carriage and delivery of , parcel and of thq .Jess "bulky .goods.1 "!; V' ;V:; In London the motor omnibus' is driving the tram car off the street advance, and with bayonet the sol of the city. Quite recently capital' dlrs guard the mill. VTbe textile has been subscribed for, a hew.motor .'Industries are. the most highly pro bus company to .carry on a regular jtected of any of the tariff beneflcl- and very frequeniservice from north to south of the city. ' . The showing '..was 'made that a street, car, with Its dlstrtbtiUve proportion' ofu cost of rails and fixed charges, on the dis tance to be supplied represented an expenditure of $45,000, while the equivalent service , by . motor bus would cost only" $15,000. The other point made was that , the street , car was a far greater obstruction to traf- J flc in narrow treeta than the motor bus. . ,-.' ' ' , CRIPPLING THK SERVICE (I ONGRESS ought not to cut the , federal allowance ' for forest . protection. : There iis need of . economy at v Washington, but there are other field and many of them,' in' which the pruning knife could better, be applied. . Why not save one million out of the $300, 000,000 Senator Aldrich said he could save by a more efficient busi ness administration of national af fairs, and let the added million for forest, protection , stand? "' Oregon is .tremendously interest ed in maintaining a federal forest patrol. - The service should be In creased, rather ths.n diminished. The publio bodies of the state, as suggested by Glfford Pinchot, should wire protests to the Washington gov emment.:0,f,'i'M',; h '.''(. ''vP, V Oregon has .: one-fifth the stand ing timber of the country. It is an enormous , asset f or the creation of wealth, and in the process of con verting It Into wealth ..by manufac ture of lumber, eighty per. cent goe to labor. :'V'..V : 'l-f.J- ;:- ,; ' In 1909,-there were 413 forest fires in the state. . In 1910, a year of very destructive fires, the timber loss was much heavier. , v It' is estimated that for the five years ending ; December, - 1910, ' the destruction' of timber ly flro In volved a loss of $50,000,000. The average amount of timber burned In past, , years has been one billion feet a year; The plan of. an effect ive patrol, and the ..cutting of, these annual losses to the minimum is one of the most splendid policies in the conservation -scheme. . . Curiously enough, a ; heavy por tion ,of the 545,000,000,000 feet iof Oregon timber - Is In national . forest reserves. .The reserves comprise 24 per cent of the standing " timber of the state. It isnhe jTjnited ! State government's .own property, and it would be a foolish and costly policy "to withdraw a portion of the forest patrol nd expose standing timber to Increased danger of lose by fires. r.'Xyo4Rasbl.ghl Is fully Justified in.acting. on ,the, suggestion ..of ..Mr, Pinchot. ' He should wire a protest to Washington and o 'should Gov-.; ernor , West ( So should, the. public bodies of the state. IE HOME RULE CAMPAIGN HE day Is close at band for the opening In Ulster of the cam- palgn for hornet rule. v'On- the $th Inst V-Winston Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty in the Liberal government, is , announced to speak in Belfast, in support It has been widely heralded that the Ulster Unionists will not permit that speech to be delivered, and that they' will go any lengths to defeat home rule. . . ' -' v The-great' bugbear is that Catho lic -supremacy in Ireland at large will stifle the rights of Protestants, however, far they may be protected In the. proposed home rule bill. ; The last 'Ideai circulated by some ot the Protestant, Duchesses,' Is V that - un skilled nuns are to be. substituted for trained nurses in Irish hospitals. - , But the imperial parliament will retain, a ' supremacy, which will e cure absolute religious equality. The same Imperial supremacy will Btand' behind the Irish parliament in en forcing 'the law of the land, " Bel fast may talk of an independent government of her own, she may play at electing her own parliament and voting her own taxes. Yet she will find that she will have to obey the laws passed by the- parliament in Dublin, and pay the taxes there ordered. Actual wrong done to Bel fast, England, would be -prompt to have remedied. Imaginary and pros pective wrongs,' to be redressed-by seditious urVising8, have, no terrify ing or, exciting force. vf ) The problem of the, home rule bill is to reconcile true rational au tonomy with the fiscal and 'political relations which must in future sub sist between . close; neighbors on either' side of the Irish channel. It Is possible enough that by the bill as passed all faction will not be appeased nor all difficulties met But as in the case of the infinitely complicated insurance; bill.1' a sure foundation may be 'provided : and minor, adjustments hereafter made. AT LAWRENCE J( sa "vV, ' '.,-,";".( ' Vi nil aaaii''," , . 4 ' X WENTY-ONE companies of mili tia with , fixed bayonets, , and two troops of cavalry, are on guard while ' the textile mills at Lawrence, Massachucetts, are be ing operated. ' It Is a heavy expense to the state "bi Massachusetts, which must pay the wages and maintenance of the soldiers. , The . average wage of the male adults, among, the 22,000 striker is $9 perwweek, and of the women and children $6. The . concession the strikers are asking Is 56 hours'1 pay for,, 54 hours'. wortc, 't)r , wage .in crease of S H ' per cent. ' It would raise the average wage of the adult males $9.81 per week and of, the women and children to $6.21.',.? -, ,i -.. V But the ; mill ' owners refuse the tries, I ' ' TKa at a r a m9 MoaoaAniiSAtts r 11 ii be in a better business if It used soldier to enforce a minimum wage and an, eight hour law in behalf of these underpaid tollers; No state can rise to a wholesome condition when hundreds of " thousands of workers are forced to exist on a liv ing standard Indicated by a nine-dol-lar-a-week wage for men and a bIx-dollar-a-week wage for women, i For the Bel f respect of a state rt ought to be prevented by law. For the self respect of. the nation, it ought to be prohibited by statute. For; the safety and perpetuity, of .the fepublio the low life, standards involved in a starvation scale of wages should be driven out, anc It should be done on the basis of a wago level below which employers should not be al lowed to go. . ; The state Is In position to do for all labor what unions are trying to do for class labqr, and it should not hesitate to exercise the power. ON EVERY SEA HB port that offers the best facilities for the safe dock ing and speedy discharging and loading , of ships, with proper -rail connections, is the port that will get the trade. Such is the statement of a man Who is at the head of a navigation company that owns more than 300 Bteamshlps and is building more. He is Paul Heiniken of the North Ger man Lloyd Steamship company. - He is now on the Pacific coast, arrang ing to put on a line ot steamers op erating to Pacific coast points as soon as the Panama canal Is opened. The, North German Lloyd operates lines all around the world. It runs two mall routes through the Sue canal. , One terminates at Sydney and the other at Yokohama. It runs a freight line around South Africa to Australia. There is no ocean that its ships do not ply and no import ant ports which its vessels do not touch. , . , 'Portland should meet every re quirement necessary to be on the map of the North German Lloyd. Mr. Heiniken and bis traffic man ager ; are ; to be in Portland. The public docks commission should as certain what accommodations this world type of steamship company will require, and be prepared to meet them fully. No higher expert authority On how to increase Port land' ocean Importance can be found than this head of a line that sails ships on every sea. He. says "The port that offers the best: fa cilities . f ojl safe docking and speedy discharging ana loading ot snips, with proper rail connection, is the port that .will get the trade." Heiniken also says: "Your Pacif ic coast will witness a trade revolu tion a soon as the Panama canal is completed. :. Your business will In crease twenty-fold, as well as your population. It is the intention of the North German. Lloyd to share In the .profits of this new order :; of things, and that Is why we are here." Does Portland realize what this preliminary survey by the head of the North German Lloyd company means? Will Portland rise to the occasion? w;" ... CANADA PAYS THE PIPER C ANA DA danced to the tune set by the Imperialists who defend ed imperial preference, and by the manufacturers of the east ern provinces who feared American competition. So the voters threw out the Laurler ministers and the reci procity treaty with them5. '' It did not take long for the west ern and prairie provinces to feel the rebound, for they see a wheat crop bf 3 O,000;000 bushels barred from American railroads and the Ameri can market by the continuance of the 25 cent per bushel duty. That crop, shrinking and dwindling In value and condition week by week; is exposed to the mercy of the Canadian winter, The first or second crop farmers," the newer settlers,, tormented ' with f the sight of the wheat and oats whose sale was to have set them firmly on their feet, are unable to sell and without provision to bold. And these conditions not local to a district, but spread over three provinces. , The voters of the prairie farms lis tened to the. voice of the charmer and are now repenting at their leis ure; ' ,' ' ' ';: -,.1' V", ;' In England, the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided .that f the marriage ceremony in church is il legal unless the wife takes Vows to be obedient to her husband. There is an occasional , husband who. .will have a hlgbs fespect for the arch bishop" opinion and- yet be filled with wonderment at his courage. ,' For ' the present, Near Congress man Hyland, has determined to put away all thought of public life. , The grace with which he retired is grat ifying v to "his friends who ! always wanted to think of him as an esti mable and ; respected citizen rather than, as a mere congressman. t Protests may be lifted otherwhere, but none will ' be heard from Texas oyer the proposed, sending of more American troops to the Mexican bor der. ..The commissary : department always. follows .the flag.''v.;:;::-;:,'v-'rt-'-;:iv r.--V,:j-,;iCB , ,1 N,. ,,!VV :: -:: The Portland ,churche have a bal ance of $ 4 8 1 after paying for the Gipsy . Smith : meetings., ; They have In addition, - th- , tabernacle ;', from which a considerable sum should b realized. ! Their, financial manage ment has bn excellent. ' - (.'IThera- is an atmosphere of ; wait ing at Sagamore Hill for his coun trymen to appear there and shanghai its leading citizen. An eastern boy ha had hi allow ance Increased to' $50,000. a year. He Is probably on the jroad to Mat teawan. Letters JFrom the People - (Oonmnnlcatloaa arnl to The Journal (or pub Heat Ion ta tola department ahould oot txctri 800 worda In lencta and mnat b aocoapaiUad ttf tba nam and addrtaa of tna aoar. ... 'X'. y . ?A listose 'of . Capital. J Portland, Or, Feb. 4-To tha Editor of The- Journal rThe president of tha United Btates wants an International Inquiry Into the cost of living. Millions ot people are worried over how to. get both ehds to meet, othera In increaalti numbers are slowly dying- prematurely because they are not getting both ends to meet At this stage despair and crime carry away a certain number. Now .international 't oommlsslons 1 and other . 'commissions are ' often used to sidetrack embarrassing matters, but all who have hearts within their bosoms want to give their fellows a chance to live and they do not want this matter sidetracked. It, is a cold fact that or g-anlaed and 'orderly society cannot exist without candidly meeting; this question. The cost of living- is obviously the ef fort to produce the things needed, that is to say the necessary labor. Capital participates In the effort in so far as it is stored up labor, stored up errort. Hence the economic definition of capv -Ital is, labor products used In the pro duction of more labor products. . Just grasp clearly . that real capital In the proper sense of the word is a labor product. ' Capitalisations of monopolies and capitalizations of the space and nat ural resources of the earth are In an other class. They are means to secure labor products without effort, forms of cheating if you will pardon the word. Labor and stored up labor (capital) are forced to produce an Income on a stead ily Increasing mountain of capitalisa tions and It does not" leave enough to live on. The. burden ia dimply unbear able and sober and kindly people ought to aae it even a little before they are personally caught.,- Tha monstrosity of abusing- the man or woman who falls under the burden Instead of those who place the unnatural burden there and profit by It is the most, disgusting sight in civilised society today. I have noted with much pleasure that your paper has taken sides with the burden bearer on numerous occasions In spite or tne price. , ,,. Mr. Taft is behind the English lead er, uoya George, who makes an appeal -to tna. enureses and. to good people gen erally realising that this matter is a moral far more than an economic is sue. The question Is, will we or will we not face some reductions in capi talizations in order to save orderly so clety and in mercy to those who are un able to carry the burden. Sacrifice by the strong In order to save the weak is the only way the world can progress. I do not blame those who personally, hold capital represent ing in tne proper sense cheating and nothing better. This ia the basis upon which society rests and the only form of property tenure, but I do blame those who oppose a gradual easing up In the direction of Justice and mercy. Let every dollar-be Identified and let it disclose what it stands for. It can no longer, stand for ownership of nerroes. but it does yet stand for ownership of niggers in tne woodpile. Btoo the cheat Ing and you clearly lower the cost ef living, lor tne cneater too must go to work, and his hired man with him, the man who fulminates against the burden Dearer. A. S. FROBLID, Assessments in New Zealand. Portland, Or., Feb. S. - : To the Editor- of The Journal There h been - considerable discussion In your columns relative to just an sessment of land. Allow me to quote from "The Story of New Zealand," by Professor Frank Parsons, 'The assesss ment act of the same year (1885) pro vided that in case of disagreement be tween - the commission's valuation of property for taxation and the value named in the owner's return, the gov ernor in council on the recommendation or tne -commissioner might purchase tne property at the value . named in said owner's return plus 10 per cent, unless the owner assented to the com mission's valuation. Ob tha owner's part he might require the state to re. duce the assessment, or to purchase the property at tne value named in his re turn (without any additional per cent.)" It appears that the principal purpose of ; this : law is the protection of the property owner from unjustly high as sessment. :"' '. .,"'-:.' ?.',;; ''i A law could be drafted that would In sure Justice to 'the community and also protect the individual property holder. - Provide f of the fixing of the valu by the owner and allow the county to purchase at a 10 per cent advance on this value - if it .was found that the property had been seriously underval ued by the owner when returning It for assessment.. ., .... :,. With this provision ' In force few owners would risk greatly undervaluing their property on the returns. Neither could they claim unjustly high assess ments as they would have set the fig ure: . If they abused the nrivUear tha county , would be in position to get a Bargain. , ,. '.-, If - these assessment rolls weft open to Inspection by the publio it would probably tend to discourage highly speculative prices, W. C MATH IAS, Friend of the Working People. Portland,' Or.. Feb. .i-To the Editor of The JournalWhat the work In ar eo- pie of . Portland need la a few more friends like Ben Belling, who Is now trying to establish a loan bank where one can go and get a little money which can be paid back with a small interest and not fall Into the hands of the "loan snarks'-a bank to protect the working- man who has been overtaken by some misfortune, Mr. Selling has made one of the biggest successes in the mercan tile business of any man in the city, and only by his honesty and seeing that everybody got a square deal. ; His name at the back of merchandise is a good guarantee, and I. as well as thousands of other people of Oregon, believe that Ben Selling, put In any of our Domical offices, would , guarantee a square deal t' the . workingman. s.'yir.fe..,' ;vh As I have said before, Mr. Selling is surely a friend of the working Deonie. and , we' should all stick to him, boost him along, . push him forward , In . any thing or any office which he may run for, believing and knowing- that he la going. to ao an in his power for the masses, which are the working people. - Don't stop, Mr. Selling, until you have the bank established and running, which will surely be a great ' relief to the needy, M. '' 'A Typographical Error : $ i v r PortUad. .Or., FeoV l.-To -the Editor of The Journal In my letter dated Jan uary 28 and appearing in The Journal January 81 you omitted part of a word which I would- like to have corrected. COMMENT AND . i SMALL CHANGE Yet the way of the transgressor may be easy for quite a while. : - From now on, a "great many "keynote" speeches will be delivered. ' " 1 , n i i y l y Portland Is becoming a little- nearer 'aft right" all the time. ' . ' , , i"' t ' .,,' ' V Is It te bturni. t)i nimtnm fnr a president to campaign for reeleotionT , Perhens soma 1 thlnrs ' are, not an wicked as some people make them out to be. i -' . . , . ( . Why not hire a lot of eastern oaners to print the Portland weather report dailv? ' Senators Bailey and Hevburn are twin knots on a log of a tree that has been out down,, , s :. ; Portland Is one Of tha heavlthinst of cities, yet undertakers Increase in num ber and thrive. .-''-,..-. ,,'...: - ,-,v,:. i5 " ' '':- i'-y,' K'-'-i- v The Chairman of tha national Prohlhl. tlon party expects victory this year he says. How easily some people, even .leaaers, . are repeatedly deluded, - :.-: v. ,.,h,. -v.'-v- Seven "wills" of the. late J. W. Tauna- of WeHton have turned up, .or been heard of. An effort seems to nave ben made to make up in the number of wills what they lacked in genuineness. Not verv -lona- aaro tha mlnnel uM that for his friends to urge his Candi dacy for president would be a "calam ity. But he seems to be bearing up under the "calamity" very well. Why shouldn't tha-. "Unskilled Ml arm- tory and Casual Workers' association" b permitted to hold a convention, as well as the politicians? If thev have solved the problem of living without work, are they not entitled to respect? Kennewlck. Wash., farmers hava noti fied , their members ot congress that thev don't want anv of the atovernmcnt free seeds, and that the free seed dis tribution is nothing but a mall burden ing grari, designated to delude fool farmers and Is of - no benefit to them. Now If other farmers will speak up and ten tne train in uxe manner, nernaos congressmen may gain - enough mora) courage to cut off this graft. SEVEN GREAT Galileo. To Galileo, the -Pisa astronomer, the world owes a debt not alone for his won derful discoveries In astronomy, but for his Inventive genius which permitted him to devise instruments Invaluable for the' carrying out of this study, which was at the time of his birth, 1564, so much absorbing the scientific world. - It was Galileo who first constructed telescope in 1609, with' which be dis covered mountains and cavities in the moon, the round discs of the planets, the four satellites . of Jupiter and spqts on , the sun. For teaching the Coper nlcan theory; Galileo was accused of heresy, examined by the Inquisition and put to the torture. Worn by age he succumbed to his persecutors and ad- lured his objectionable doctrines In 1J3 and finally died totally mind at Florence in 1 642. Among the ranks of the great as tronomers It would be difficult to find one whose life presents more Interest ing features and remarkable vicissi tude than does that of Galileo. It was while- he was professor of mathematlos at Padua that he entered upon ms mar velous career of investigation which was destined to revolutionise science. - In order to further develop his stu dies, he engaged a skilled workman to live at hts house and thus be constant ly at hand to try the devices forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain. Among the earliest Of his Inventions appears to have been the thermometer, which he constructed in-1602.--. When Galileo Invented his telescope a short time afterwards Its remarkable properties at once commanded universal attention among Intelligent men. When he first turned it on the heavens ne was amaaed to find that he could count 10 times as many stars- in the sKy as nis unaided eye could detect. Galileo's celestial discoveries no succeeded each other rapidly. That beautiful -Milky Way, which has for ages been the object of admiration to all lovers of nature, never disclosed Its true beauty to the eye of man, tin tne astronomer of Padua turned on it his magio tube. : But the greatest discovery made by the telescope in tnose eariy days, perhaps,' indeed, the greatest dis covery that the telescope has ever ac complished, was the detection of the system of ' four - satellites revolving around the great planet Jupiter. Num bers of persona of distinction crowded to Galileo to see for themselves this beautiful miniature representing the sun with its system of revolving planets. Through -this telescope H was maae manifest to Galileo that the Copernican theory of the planetary system must be the true one. This fact made Galileo's fame so great that the Grand Duke of Tuscan desired to have the philosopher reside at Florence in . the belief that There is a vast difference between the words sufficient and Insufficient. My letter, as written, read: "Portland will have to make radical ehanges In her docking facilities and depth of harbor If she wishes to gain new traae, as feet of water is insufficient for ships of any sixe." Of course, it does not mane a great deal of difference how articles are printed when : such men as Theodore B. Wilcox, one of the biggest, lr not the blae-est shinning man of Portland, make such statements as appeared In last evening's Journal: "Vf are not s great exporting port. We "Will not be until more attention Is given to ship ping out of tha Columbia river. I have been compelled to ship the production of the Portland Flouring Mills company to tha orient out of Ptiget sound because we have no transportation out ot Port land.' And we are no nearer getting transportation today than we were 20 years ago." Mr. Wilcox is right. Th big ships will never come to Portland. V Who Get the. Mule? '.:vl.;' Burns, Or., Feb. t.- To the Editor of Tho Journal. This Incident , Occurred here a while ago.i A fellow called on the Presbyterian minister to say the marriage vows' for him, which he did: After the ceremony the groom explained that he had no money but would let him have a mule he had; on the range vin the Dog Mountain country, .The parson thought rthat" pretty good and ' agreed. Later on the groom with his bride- went over into the Wild Horse country and bought a lot of vegetable supplies for winter from a rancher. After they were loaded on bis wagon, he explained to the rancher' that he had no money, but Would let him. have a mule he had in the Dog -Mountain .. country. " Rancher thought that pretty good and agreed. '. On the way home with the vegetables the bride was taken , sick, and they stopped at a rancher's bouse,: and there she received the best of care for sev eral weeks. . When they were ready to take leave the groom explained that he bad no money, but had a mule on the range -In Doa; . Mountain country and would let them have him for pay. Again the rancner thought that Pretty good and agreed. Whose is the muloT M. - NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON, SIDELIGHTS , r ', T t .' ' . ' January at Medford was the watnest January in 22 years. t . ' ;" Cemetery improvement Is about to be undertaken at llermlston. ,,', i. , ' ' ' ( .: F. Kaiser of Dufur has been enagd as Instructor by the new band at Nortn -; -r. i '.vr " Milton farmers are said to be planning a roooperattve store with capital stock rsoldn Hals- unA the Three Bears. an operetta, is to be given by Wallowa public school students laiennis munin. 1 Hermlston Herald: Soma people are already nlannlng early gardening. Some uv th win riint in two weeks., Many sections of the United States are Just in the middle of their winter, -'...-.h. ;;.'.;-'r;'.e e-- '--.. :- " ; Mra. Henrlptta. Wlllard ' Calvin 1 has been elected dean; of the school of do mestic Science and art at Oregon Agri cultural college, to succeed Miss Juliet Greer,- who severed, her connection witn tne institution last juiy. ,, , .; Myrtle Creek Mall: An article in the Mall calling attention to our enormous supply of oak timber, has brought nu merous inquiries rrom coast manuiac turera. The Douglas -county oak, so long neglected, ta destined to become great source of wealth. .,.v .:. :i ,'f, . The official weather observer at Pen dleton reDorts that although Umatilla county farmers last year harvested one or tha nest crops in years, tne ram ran for the year was almost six inches be low normal. The precipitation totaled 9.21 incnes,-ine normal ja The Kernvllle correspondent of ; the Toledo Leader writes: The tramps are going through the county negging some thing to eat, and sleeping wherever night overtakes them, it our county eouio have some publio work and compel them to work for what they eat we could find out wnicn are tne nonest ones. : 1. 5 r-.: Weaton Leader: E. O. DeMoss has mechanics on the ground aerecting a ?aiatiai mansion, ror 01s ansiocraiic lymouth Rocks. He haa gone - into noultrv aa a side issue, and exnects soon to bave all the other poultry fanciers around Weston looking like clumsy nov ices. ';,(: V,: ?.:r.'. - 1. '-.;"'; - r-'. '.u ASTRONOMERS the astronomer would shed luster on the duke's dominions. In 1611 he took up his home there where he again directed his telescope to tha skies and again did astounding discoveries reward the as tronomer's labors. The great success which he had met with In studying Ju piter naturally led Galileo to look to Saturn, r Here he saw a spectacle which was amasing, though he failed to Inter pret it accurately. - It seemed to Galileo as if the planet consisted of three bodies, a .large globe In the center, and a smaller one on each side. - - The last of Galileo's great astronomi cal discoveries related to the liberation of the moon. Here his career was in terrupted, for upon the appearance of the Immortal work In which it was taught that th earth rotated on its axis and that the earn, like the other planes, revolved around the sun, ortho doxy stood aghast. After due examina tion of his book it was condemned as heretical In 1618. Then came a period of several years of the most cruel per secution of the great man ot Florence, but finally believing' he had overcome the objections to his doctrines, ne is sued in 1631 another great work, "The Dialogue of the Two Systems." This book the authorities at Rome at ' onoe ordered suppressed and the author was ordered before tha Inquisition on the grave charge of heresy, . . After the trial and sentence was passed upon him, he was compelled to kneel and with his hands on the uoe pel, was made to detest and curse the false opinion that the sun was the can ter.of the universe, and Immovable, and that the earth was not the center of the same, and that it moved. His im prlsonment bore hard upon him and his isolation from his friends and tola. daughter, -whom he loved - so wall, preyed upon his mind until he became ' so : weak that ha lost his eyesight and was eventually attacked by low fever, from which he died on January 8, 1642, one of tha greatest In ventors and astronomers of the world at tha hands of Ignorant but powerful judges.. . . . . : . Tomorrow Kepler. Tanglefoot By MUe0" Overholt THE OUT OF TOWN FRIENDS. ; When I lived down at JphnsonviUe, i Nobody cared a ding for me. , I knew 'em all Joo, Tom and Bill. We said: "Hullo." in manner frme. ' And though we loafed around the store, Dwappea nea ana lamed on pontics, When: one of us would prove -a- bore, i ' We'd separate and wouldn't mix. - - i, Arid then I moved to Jumpofftown, " And there I found the same old class; Nobody met me with a frown; They'd always smile whene'er they'd ,: " ' pass. - .'; - We'd mingle "round the loafing place. ; And there express our different views: ...,!- ....... v.i Although we'd welcome any face, ' , : . x was oniy aone to get the news. But when the city beckoned me, ' ' ''"' And I moved from the Reuben-land; At almost every turn I'd see -v Someone who'd take me by the hand. And come up to my heated flat, And visit me with all his might, , And stay all day and loaf and chat. ,- And occupy my bed at night Folk who refused to Josh with me When I lived down at Jumpofftown, Would bring their children, two or three, And help to hold my carpets down. The Johnsonvllleans come and steal ' ITpon me, and they stay for lunch I know now I can stop the deal; .. I'll borrow money from the bunch! The Ad Writer --.-J-.--- (Contributed 1e The Jonrrial hy Walt Uason. tne famou Kaaaas poet. . Hla proas-poems are a regular featura ef this eolunin In The-Dally Journal.) ; 4i The wise old lad who writes an ad. steers, clear Of wearisome digression, ho knows . he should be understood If - he would make a good Impression. Old Jabes tlnk ; with printer's ink. kicked up a large and noisy shindy,' but didn't sell his dry goods Well, because his ads, were long and windy. And now he rant around and pants and cusses- In a style surprising? "One thing i know,"he says. "By Joe, there Is no good in advertis ing!". But Gaffer fipink buys printer's, ink, and clothes his ads. in happy diction, and people read his every screed a though it. were best seller fiction.-. His brcesy ads, bring him the sea da and fill Ms store with eager, buyers, while .mer chants ar loaf by the year and chew the rag with weather liars.:, 6ays Gaffer Spink; , "I surely think that when I've goods to plaice before them, I shouldn't try4tO make folks buy, by starting in to tire and bore them. And so I write my- ads. as bright and forceful-a, my hand can do them.1? ':'" Thus Gaffer brags: n sell my; rags l don't sit round. mystore and chew, them I" .VV , eopmM teu.. ht "-. :,;, fpC.S-rftJ- tieerge MatUiaw Adams. tCgiX UfW a Good Roads and Rural In discussing in detail the-relation of good roads to the rural delivery ser vice and the Influence which the ex. tension of rural delivery has had in the good- roads movement. Assistant Post master General, De Graw said: , ' "That the post "of f Ice y departm at should be Interested In the building and improvement of the highways through out the country Is but natural when con sideration ia given to the fact that many millions of dollars are expended annu ally ln the. maintenance tof the rural mall service, and that during the course . of .a year rural and star carriers travel the enormous ,total distance-of . nearly ' .4O0,ove,go miles of roads. .H''"' v The .department expects of the bene- flclarles of this service that they ahull maintain tha highways in such condi tion as to- insure tha delivery of mall at ali seasons of the year with celer ity, certainty and regularity, and Un less this Is done , the service , Is cur-1 tailed or withdrawn entirely. ; As a rev suit of the department's insistence on the maintenance . of good roads, and of its cooperation, through postmasters '' and rural carriers, with state highway-, officials and good roads associations, It Is, believed that during the past five -or six years greater interest, has been engendered in. the good road question,, mora, money appropriated, -and - more work accomplished than during any oth er like period in the country's history, In the result achieved the postmast-, era and rural carriers of the country hava played a , large part. - In a. large number of states the highway official' have requested the department to per mit rural carriers to ; cooperate with them in securing information and data pertaining to highways, their condition, and the lack or availability of suitable road-building materials.!. In many in- -stance postmasters and rural carriers have taken, the initiative - in forming good : roads associations whereby vast sum have been provided for the im provement ot the entire system of high ways in certain countries. ' r' ' -. It I conceded by those Interested In the good roads question that rural de livery and the attitude and cooperation of the post - office department '- have given greater stimulus to the subject and have been productive of greater re sults 'than, all other causes combined, and it Is desired that every postmaster -and every rural carrier shall continue this cooperation as far as he can con sistently with his duties. When service ia suspended on a rural route, complaint is sometimes mad by those , who are thus deprived of tha dell-very of mall by rural carrier that tha road lev being traveled and if other can get over it why not the rural carrier. Rural carrier can not be and are not . expected to travel roads hub-deep In mud or . in suc-h condition as to cause great hardship to , the carrier animals and loss of time to the carrier.' The Interest of the department In the good roads question Is paramount, for the reason that tha 41.884 rural carrier employed are dally traveling more than 1,000,000 mile . of roads, and In the course of a year these carrier travel mora than 200,000,000 mile of roads. It ia therefor essential that tha roads be . maintained in good . condition for travel in order to Insure uninterrupted and . . expeditious delivery and collec tion : of mall on rural . route on a : uniform ana dependable . acneauie. In the maintenance of tha- , ser- ; vice many millions of dollar are spent each year, and th post office de partment expects it beneficiaries to sea that ; the highways are maintained in proper condition. Some five or six years ago the department adopted the policy Of insisting that the roads on which rural delivery is in operation snail pe kept, in good repair or else to Withdraw 1 service therefrom! and also to cooper ate with state highway commissions, ' good reads associations, local highway ' official, and othera interested, in se- . curing the Improvement of highways," and to' encourage postmasters and rural carrier to do likewise. The department very much desire that every postmast er, rural carrier and substitute carrier shall not only constitute himself an apostle of good roads and ' spread the propaganda, but mat tney eh an ty their . works arouse interest and emulation in other. : ' While these improvements have re dounded to the great benefit to the ' rural delivery service, the direct and In- : direct material benefit to the farmers and other rural residents have been In calculable. When the roads are poor, farmers are unable to take advantage of the best market prices, but can only do their hauling during the dry season or when the roads are dried out.' The saving in th cost of horse where the - road are improved is enormous, ror there can be no doubt that good roads prolong the usefulness of horses at least one-third, . Then again, food roads are not only an indication of , thrift, but they certainly enhance farm values and encourage and promote rural eoctal intercourse and Interests. ,: Instruction and advice on road build ing or materials ar to b had upon ap plication to the department of agricult ure, bureau of publio roads, Washing ton, D. C, and skilled highway engin eers are detailed by the department of agriculture under certain condition to furnish practical demonstration , in road building. ' r " Prior to the introduction of rural de livery-those who resided in the rural ; section of the country were required to go or send to th post office to re- celve and dispatch their mall, in many Instances traveling many miles. This , necessitated the abandonment of their 1 work and th withdrawal of a team of , horses from service on an' average of at ' least three times a .week, The rural malls.' whereby practically-all' the facil ities of the postal service are brought close to the homes of a majority of the : rural population, has changed all this. To give to the rural resident these fa cilities is costing th enormous sum of -approximately $46,000,000 a year- It Is 1 not, 1 therefore, unreasonable to expect -and to require that the roads on which the malls are carried and delivered shall he maintained in good Condition. Th bureau, or roads or. the depart ment, of agriculture ha compiled fig ures which how that . the aggregate . amount which will be expended by state and county authorities during this year 1 in road improvement Will be 8140,500,- 000. California has raised by bond Is- -sue, $18,000,000 New York, $12,000,000; Connecticut, $2,500,000 and-; Colorado ' , 110,000,000,; while Arizona,! Texas. Wy - oming. New Mexico: and. the South are forwarding 1 similar legislation.. The ; west has takon up road bulldlnSr with . exceptional energy. . Seyeral ' of s the states have Joined I official hands to have a "Royal Road," to be one Of the ' finest Scenic highway -in the.j whole world. A stretch of about 1000 miles of this Interstate road has been cam- , pleted, and it , Is now possible to drive ' - an automooiie rrom 1 cneyenne ; to El Paso with but one short break at Albu- ' querque.Th average cost was from $500 to $1000 a mile, but some jpart of It In th Rockies has cost as high as $8000 a mis Even the railroads are aid- -Ing the movement. The Santa Fe system. Is building a magnificent scenlo high- " way along the margin of- the iGrand Canyon, .:; ,:,;:.'' .:; :. v ; --r rl-'.v-, "Now, Margretta," kald the tearher. 'can you tell hie what synonym 1st" ."Yes. ma'am." replied Margrtta. "A : iynonum 1 a word you write when you don't know now to spell the other one."