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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1012.
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iSXVPFrENPEST NEWSPAPER.
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Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit
at ease,
Mrs. Browninfc.
OREGON FIRST
i
F
OR days, the, news from Cali
fornia has teemed with . bou
quets, music and hospitality.
San Francisco has kept open
house for Oregon. Two states hava
qlasped hands as never before.
Three hundred ; Oregonlans went
south with greetings and good will.
A whole city, representing a. whole
Etate meMhem. with good will and
greetings. It was a splendid exam
ple of the brotherhood of men and
the sisterhood of states. . ; .
4 To the Oregonlans, San Francis
co was San Francisco. San Francis
' . co Is the product of the red blood
and venturesome chivalry of the
early argpnauts who entered the
Golden .Gate to seek the .golden
fleece In the Sierras. Those argo
nauts and thelf progeny are a race
whose : character Is reflected In a
new San-Francisco that has quickly
risen out .of the ashes of the quake
and fire -of 1906.
:: And all that the new city had In
hospitality and generosity has been
bestowed on Oregon. Oregon has
first choice of a building site for the
Panama exposition. Oregon Is the
head of the corner. Oregon, In van
tage point for the great world ex
hibit, is preeminent. By the volun
tary choice of the great common
wealth of California, Oregon's posi
tion among the visiting Btates will
be paramount. ,
. No tribute of esteem more gen
erous has ever been extended Ore
gon. Not more responslvely or gen
erously could the slogan of "Oregon
First'' have been, met than It was
met by the, Californlans. '
It Is a greabeglnningor a great
undertaking. It Is a' fit Inaugural
for the international occasion that
Is to park the formal celebration of
tie greatest engineering' achieve
. ment in the annals of man.
There Is no spirit like that of the
west The splendid outlines of the
Cascades and Sierras, the broad val
leys and Imperial rivers, produce an
empire vision and an empire man
hood. Horizons are broad and men
talities comprehensive. Hearts are
generous, blood red, and homes hos
pitable.' California and Oregon clasping
hands In contemplation of the as
sembling of the nations to celebrate
Panama, is the proof.
1 LIVING COST AND WAGES
PRESIDENT TAFT has Just sent
Into congress, information col
- lected by the department of
state on the cost of living In
various European countries. In view
- of the wave of demand for increased
wages and a minimum rate now
spreading over the world it Is well
to Inquire what justification there is
for It.
' In tables transmitted by the
United States consul general in Lon
don and applying to " the United
Kingdom, It appears that thejeriiru8tee8 at bargain prices. There la
cent, of Increase of wages In several
leading trades .'between 1896 and
1910 was 11.1. But food prices rose
19.5 per cent Wages of railroad
employes In England during . that
period rose only 7.3 per cent. Other
tables gave the Increase of food cost
In 1910 over 1898 as 13.36 per cent.
1 Similar inquiries In France, Ger
many, Holland and other European
countries brought answers to the
same effect. The Japanese table
gives the increased percentage of
cost of living for the period between
1899 and 1910 as, London 10, New
York 25, Hamburg 15, Paris 14,
Tokio 26.
' In Oanada the United States con?
sul reports a rise of 31 per cent from
1890 to 1911
On whom does the dire pressure
of Increased ' cost of living rest?
Not on the trader and manufac
turer. Exports from Germany rose
between 1903 and 1910 by 45 per
pent. Exports from the United
Kingdom by 48 per cent.
i The aggregate foreign trade of
the United Kingdom for 1911 sur
passed all previous records. Total
Imports amounted to $3,311,941,226,
exports to $2,210,765,592, repre
senting Increases of '$270,571,784
andw369,372,026, respectively over
1909. .' .
Not on the capitalist, the commis
sioners of English inland revenue re
port in the taxed Income from Brit
ish investments abroad during five
years. That taxable Income in 1909
10 was $466,320,000., The Increase
between 1904-5 and 1909-10, If cap
italized at 5 per cent, would show
an Increased capital of $2,720,200,.
000.
Not on the- saving classes. On
2vg.YaJB$r 20. 1 903. In the trnsfpa
savings banks of the United King
dom there were 1,804,1 95 accounts
open, with deposits of $66,777,695,
nod in tho postal savings backs tha
sum deposited In 1910 were $224,
S60.S66, and totals to credit of de
positors on December 31, 1510,
were $822,805,000. ,
What about trades unions? For
1900, members in the United King
dom were reported as 1,572,861.
For 1910 as 2,017.656. The. in
comes of the. unions were $10,9SO,
240 for 1900. and for 1910, $15,511.
555. Expenditures of the unions, in
1900, were $8,015,101, in 1910.
$15,266,624. . Balances of -the
unions' funds were, in 1900, $20,
135.922, In 1910. $28,835,754.
The prosperity of , the manufac
turing and trading classes, the In
crease of capital, and of the savings
of th nation are proved Trades
unionists, representing the class of
well paid labor, have seen their
funds accumulate. Turn, then, to
the 111-pakl workers In the ranks of
the unskilled. They are numbered
by. the million. To them the higher
price, or the diminished quantities,
of the necessaries of life, bring
closer the specter of actual want
Their loudest. demand Is for work,
even though so 111 paid. On daily
labor, spread over the base of the
enormous pyramid on which modern
civilization res'3, they subsist Yet
they even abandon work to let their
pleas tothetrmorefortunate feK
low citizens be heard. The strike Is
their protest. Can you wonder at
their resorting to it? "
Let the economists study the
causes for the Increased cost of liv
ing and remedy all the remediable
ones.
Btft we heed not wonder to see
the wage earning classes insist that
average wages shall be raised to
countervail the enhanced cost of
living, and that such rise of wages
be continued In reasonable corres
pondence with the growing accumu
lations of the nations.
A BIGGER ISSUE
A'
Lli members of the late grand
jury, after exhaustive Inquiry
into the Kenton gravel pit
transaction, signed a secret
note, requesting" the county board to
dismiss Clerk Shaw. Tho reply of
the board is a refusal to take the
suggested action.
The request of the grand Jury is
official notice to the public that
the sale of the gravel pitwas Im
proper, that the interests of the
county were sacrificed, and that
Clerk Shaw, who finally secured the
property, 18 the chief offender. The
reply of the court is noftce to the
public that no matter what the clerk
did In this transaction, the board
Intends to keep- him onthe . county
payroll. '
(One member of the board said
"the grand jury did not give any
reason for his dismissal." Doesn't
the board know any reason? Hasn't
the court heard that the gravel pit
was sold for $2010, and that the
clerk says he would not 'ike $5000
for it, anu that when-asked If he
would accept $6000, he said the
property was "not for sale?" "What
kind of reason is required?
This member also Bald; "The court
does not know that he (the Clerk)
has acted unwisely.' Everybody
else knows. The grand jury learned
that the gravel pit is paying about
$125 per month, or r. 25 rtr cent an
nual profit on a valuation of $6000,
or a 12 Mi per cent annual profit on
a valuation of $12,000. Was it wise
to tell .such .a property, a property,
belonging to the people, for B$2010?
Whose business is it but the board's
to find out whether the clerk "has
acted unwisely?" What is a county
board paid for?
There Is a bigger thing !n this
matter than the mere sacrifice of
countjr"pTeperty for a Bong. There
is a bigger thing than the mere pur
chase of people's property by a coun
ty - employe from the people's
I TT V 11. I a 1L . . A 1
bigger, thing In it; than the mere
question of dismissing a county em
ploye from a position.
The real Issue Is the vastly great
er one of efficiency in the public
service. Is the public business con
ducted as effectively as the average
private business? .Would any pri
vate employer retain an employe
who had .wronged him out of several
thousand dollarB? '
INLAND CHINA
T
HE first of . the missionaries
from the far inland province of
Shensl has just arrived in Eng
lana, arter a long and very
dangerous journey through a deso
late country. His name is ; Borst-
Smlth. His party consisted, of for
ty-one Europeans, including six chil
dren and a host of Chinese camp
followers. "
He Bays that not a soul was to be
found In some of the towns they
passed through. In the absence of
the landlord they had to com
mandeer inns for lodging, and went
short of food. In two hours they
passed one day forty dead bodies ly
ing by .the roadside. He reports
that most of the people far inland
know nothing of imperial matters.
The name of Yua.n Shi Kai works
like a charm, but none of those peo
ple know who he is.
Another missionary writes from a
big prefectural city ;.jt far Jrom
Shanghai of his perplexity. On De
cember 5. emissaries from a band
of robbers that had seized two
neighboring cities, arrived," and de
manded the surrender of the city.
Panic followed, and the fearful pro
posed buying off the robbers with
Bilver. In the strife of parties the
Iml.ulnnar wo- -oil-..
This was not a case ot taking sides
with republicans or Imperialists, tut
dealing, with robber bands. So he
urged the holding of the,, city until
at least Chengtu, the capital, could
be heard from. His advice turned
the scale and the robbers were de
fied. He says that in the fighting
that followed the bravery and lead
ership of one soldier turned the
scale and saved the city.
It turned out that these robber
bands were led by scholars who had
in mind establishing an Indepen
dent government for the province.
This illustrates the ease with which
divisions among the several parties
arise. ,
How the supremacy at Peking will
be settled no one can foretell. The
praise given to the republicans as
having engineered an almost blood
less victory has long ago been fal
sified. Probably Yuan wishes he
had held to his former plea that his
health was bad, and had left Dr.
Sun to fight It out If he could
standing ready to pick up the pieces
If there were a general smash.
SIX DOLLARS PER
T
HE mill number of a textile
worker at Lawrence was 1607.
He was the head of a family of
five or. six, and his weekly pay
check called for $6.05. On the re
verse Bide of his pay envelope was
printed : . .. .
"Do. not spend all your Income.
A man's duty to himself is to save
some- money out of his earnings, j
Start a bank account and be inde
pendent." The words were the mill
ownersdvtc&to anemploye:-
What glittering opportunities
If
only the worker will heed the com
pany's wise counsel. What reckless
extravagance it would be for this
head of a family of six on a wage of
$6.05 per, "to spend all his income."
What a splendid vision of opulence
opens before this man if he will act
on the company's advice and "save
some money" out of his princely earn
ings of $6.05 a week. What wealth
and splendor would n&t settle over
his household, and what farms and
lands, what stocks and bonds, would
not come to be his If he only obeys
the mill owners' injunction, and
from his $6.05 per, "starts a bank,
account."
Why, it shouldn't be long until he
would own a bank. To support a
family of six. on $6.05 a week and
not spend all of one's income is so
easy that It Is Impossible to Avoid
getting rich. Swollen fortune juBt
pursues one on $6.05 per, until opu
lence, Paris gowns,., automobiles, Eu
ropean tours, palaces and jewels
simply Bhower themselves upon us.
There -Is nothing like $6.05 a
week, if you don't spend all your
income.-- The ,su bject Is morexten
slvcly treated elsewhere on this
Page. ....
LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEERS
F
ROM August 18th to the 25th,
of last year, the city of Liver
pool was in the -throes of the
big strike. Not Only were the
dockers and teamsters out, but the
men of the gas works, and of ihe
great Lister-drive power station had
gone out and Jeft the power in the
power house to die.
The - strike committee Intended
that Liverpool should be deprived of
its light, ita power, and of its tram
ways. -
But some one suggested that the
professional and merchant classes of
Liverpool should keep the Lister-
drive power station going, night and
day, for six months If necessary, and
they did It
One of the volunteers has told the
story. They had 500 offering, they
could have had 5000, he eays, if
they had needed them.
There were always among then
enough to do the skilled work, and
the remainder soon learned -enough
for the varying duties required.
They worked In three shifts. Most
men volunteered for the night shifts
They worked in stores and offices all
day In town then gave up their
nights. The night men, averaged,
he says, three hours' sleep each. "
The first morning, he who writes
the story, was told to clear tho ash
pits. Under each furnace Is a pit
some three or four feet deep and
fifteen long, and Into it the white
hot ashes are ever dropping through
the chain bars above. When enough
ashes . had collected the hosepipe
was turned on them, and as soon as
they were fairly cool two of the
volunteers went down and under and
shoveled them out. The fire was
burning just overhead and the white
hot ashes were regularly falling
The man worklng with him In the
pit was a minister who said he now
knew what a fiery furnace was.
The next Job was to remove the
red hot .clinkers' from the furnaces,
and take them outside . in iron
wheelbarrows.- They Boon learned
how.
Then came the coal bunkers. The
furnaces at Lister-drlye are fed by
automatic stokers. Railroad cars
carrying from eight to twelve toiw
each are brought alongside the
bunkers. Then the men empty the
c&fs and bank up the coal against
the Bide of the bunkers, ,and the' au
tomatlc stoker does the reBt There
were four sets of bunkers, with six
teen automatic feeders to each. The
best time made by these .amateurs
was when four men shifted a car
load In twenty minutes'
There were plenty of humorous
episodes. These bunker ' men were
unrecognized by their best friends
One well-known local man went
home and his own wife did not know
him and would not let him in. j An
other was ordered roundlo his own
U . ... .
nlze each other under the new gar
ment Of coal dust and sweat. But
they were a happy crowd.
The workmen out on strike were
quite pleasant to the volunteers.
One of them told this writer, that
they were not dissatisfied, but that
they all had " to go out or life
wouldn't be worth living; He was
anxious to get back, as were all of
them.
Hear the finish of this man's ex
perience. "It was a very humaniz
ing, and civilizing work." While
they worked they , learned. For a
week they kept, the city's light and
power operating. They know now
what that Involves. , It was a good
lesson on the brotherhood ot man.
READY MADE RELIGION
r
HE Japanese government ;cpn-
siders that a new religion may
be evolved, or created, or im
posed, or collected from exist
ing sources, that shall be "powerful
as a means of assisting in the prog
ress of the state."
Being practical in all things this
Important duty has been devolved
on one man. M. TokanamI, vice
minister for home affrlrs. 'He has
been traveling far and wide In Eu
rope, and has been studying the re
lation between religion and the es
tablished order In many countries.
He has not yet formulated the creed
ordoctrlne j)f the newLjgllglonnor
determined If it shall have a creed.
But he has recommended for Japan,
blend -or-intermlxture -of - Shinto
ism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
. He has found Shintoism, with its
worshipof -ancestorslts obsolete
rites. Its lack of any defln'.te code of
morals, to be dead or dying. Bud
dhism, Is too subtle In its metaphys
ics, too other-worldly, for the Jap
anese of today. M. Tokrnami quotes
an unnamed Christian missionary as
lamenting that . Christianity makes
slow progress, and as a religious
and moral force must be written
down a failure in Japan.
The effect of this investigation on
the mind of TokanamI has evi
dently been to obscure the religious
idea entirely, so far as the spirit of
man is concerned. The Japanese re
ligion of the future is to be adopted
'without any J consideration as to
the element of truth In their teach
ings." He advises the educated
young men of the empire to profess
a religion, In which they may. not
believe, "for the sake of the second
ary benefits to be obtained thereby."
M. TokanamI has, evidently failed
to examine the religious conditions
of Corea. Cofncldently with the de
velopment of that ancient empire by
the Japanese, the Christian religion
has enrolled, it is stated, three mil
lion Korean converts. To the, depth
of their faith and its predominating
power over their lives these native
Christians give testimony.
But the religion that has there
taken root 1b simplicity itself, Iden
tical, so far s can be judged today,
with that first spread In t'ue Aegean
and its surrounding lands eighteen
centuries ago by the first mission
aries of the cross. '
But that religion would not blend
well with either the Shinto worship
Of the ancestors;- or with the Bud
dhism personified in the gigantic fig
ure seated In stony and permanent
calm before his bowing worshipers.
The Japanese desire a state re
ligion, inspired and controlled by
the state itself. So would they enter
of deliberate purpose . within - the
bonds of formalism that the nations
of the west have shaken or are shak
ing off.
They would have to close, and
keep closed, the book where is
written, God is a spirit, and they
that worship him must worship him
In spirit and In truth.- ;
PORTLAND AND LEWISTON
T
WO hundred and twenty-five
Lewiston live wires are to be
guests, of Portland tomorrow.
They Journey by special train
and their visit is an offering of good
will. . ""vr ' .- '' .
No higher compliment can be paid
Portland. No higher service can be
rendered this city than Its accentu
ation by tomorrow's visit of 225
human dynamoes. No more exalted
Ideal 1b possible in human affairs
than the friendly spirit borne on
the Lewiston excursion train by one
community for its neighbor.
It is an occasion to call out Port
land's most generous hospitality.
The keys of the city should be turned
over to the Lewlstonlans. v
Between them and Portlanders
there 1b a common Interest Both
are chief cities on the great Colum
bia system, a fact that gives' them a
bond of union. The river links them
to a common destiny. It brings them
into an extraordinarily close . rela
tion. . It wipes out state lines as
well as all other lines, and makes
them allies and partners in the great
scheme of things. -.,
Portland can be of almost Infinite
value to Lewiston, and Lewiston can
be of almost infinite value tf Port
land. Tomorrow's visit of Lewiston
live wires, in return for Portland's
visit to Lewiston Is a token that
mutuality of the two communities
is well understood by each and that
forces ior an entente cordiale are al-
fready operating.
Women Would Pay Bills,
From Xlpptncott's Magazine.
"We women may not : know some
things, but we have some sense-of bus
iness honor," said Mrs. Blithers;
"Do you mean to tell me that we have
flo sense of business honor in publlo
life now f demanded Blithers.
"Well, my dear," said Mrs.-Blithers,
with a superior smile, "facts speak for
themselves.' Do you consider this business-like?
This pa.per .says that 7000
DW?U)&iljajWUBJaJ
1 believe this
paper is reliable." - -
"Perfectly." said Blithers? "but What
of it? Suppose 20,000 bills were pre
sented in that time?" 1 . .
"What ot It? What ottr, cried Mrs.
Blithers. "You surprise me, even If you
are a man. Do you thlnlt.it bunlnees
Uhe to have that number of bills, all
In nine days, too?"
Blithers .scratched tls head In per
plexity. ' 1 1
"How would you stop It?" he de
manded. "How would we stop It?" said Mrs.
Blithers scornfully.' "Why, wa wouldn't
have any bills at all. We'd pay cash
as ws went along."
News Forecast of tLe
Week
Washington D. C.. March 1. The
statewlds primary In North. Dakota
promlnses to be the political headllner
of frf week. The primary will mark
the first occasion on which a popular
vote on candidates for president has
ever been taken In this country. North
Dakota la a hotbed ot progreeslvlsni and
as a consequence the public interest In
the primary centers almost .wholly In
the .bitter contest between Roosevelt
and La Follete, the rrval progressive
candidates, for indorsement for the Re
publican nomination. .
Ths principal events on the Demo
cratic calendar will he the state con
ventions In Maine and Indiana. The
former will meet in Augusta to nam
delegates to the national convention.
The Indiana convention, to be held In
Indianapolis, will be broader in scope,
as it will nominate a state ticket In ad
dition to naming presidential .electors
and delegates to the Baltimore conven
tion. Governor Marshall is expected to
receive- the-indorsenvent-ef the Indiana
convention for the presidential nomina
tion. Woodrow Wilson appears to be
favored In Maine, although an unln
strncted delegation 1s a-prObabttityr
President Taft is to leave Washing
ton Sunday night for New England. He
wlll make several speeches in Boston
and take pari in the Evacuation Day
celebration in that city Monday and
will visit Nashua and Concord, N. H.,
the next day. Although no announce
ment has been made of subjects for
speeches the president will make on
this trip, It Is regarded as practically
certain that he will not fall to include
fn his addresses some of the topics
touched by Colonel Roosevelt in his
Columbus speech.
Word comes from Lincoln that the
annual Bryan birthday banquet to be
held in that city Tuesday will be the
occasion of a nationwide progressive
Democratic conference. Senator Gore
of Oklahoma, George Fred Williams of
Massachusetts. Frederick Townsend
Martin of New York and a number of
other pVomlnent party men have nc
cepted invitations to attend the gather
ing. The senate committee appointed to
Investigate the right of Senator Lorlmer
of Illinois to his seat in "the upper
hous has named Saturday as the day
for proceeding with the examination of
the matter with a view to making a
report.
The first legislature of the state of
Arisona, which will elect two United
States senators, will convene In Phoe
nix Monday. Both of the senators will
be Democrats, Henry F. Ashurst and
Marcus A. Smith 'having received the
popular indorsement at the late elec
tion.
A special session of the Maine legis
lature will convene Wednesday to re
vise tne election laws, red lstrlct the
state for-the purpose of electing repre
sentatives to congress, and to prepare
something in the way -of llfluor legis
lation. ' ,
Representatives of the Unitedf Mine
Workers and of the coal operators' as
sociation in western Pennsylvania, Ohio,'
Indiana and Illinois, will resume their
Joint conference In regard to wages
and conditions of labor In Cleveland
Wednesday. The controversy between
the two bodies may result In a general
walkout of the bituminous mine work
ers on April 1, at which time the pres
ent agreement expires.
Other events of the week will lnniud-
the consecration of Right Reverend
Dennis J. O'Connell, formerly of San
Francisco, as Roman Catholic bishop
of.Rlchmond, Va.; the steaming trials
of the superdreadnought Florida; the
annual meeting of the National Can.
gress of Mothers In 8t. Louis: th P.
clfic Northwest Livestock show In Port
land, ana me annual convention and ex
hibition of the Texas Catti p
association at Forth Worth.
Letters From tne People
(Commnolcittoiia lent ta Th Jmra.l uk.
800 words in lei
ii-nion id mi aepvimcnt inouia not exceed
nets ma mnst be ecompt
id address ot the sender.)
Died
by tbe nam an
"Argues A. T. Edwards Cause.
Portland, Or., March 3. To the Edi
tor of The Journal In view of the
article in The Journal of February 22,
concerning the candidacy of A. T. Ed
wards for the office of dairy and food
commissioner on - the -Republican" ticket,
I deem It my duty as a good Republi
can to answer the uncalled for sar
casm of the man from Mist, - Andrew
Elliott He would seem to imply that
only "Old Mossbacks," as he has termed
them', are eligible for this important
office. .', . .V . ...
I think the 80,000 or more Republi
can voters of the state, who by no
SEVEN ILLUSTRIOUS SHOEMAKERS
Hans
Time out of mind "the gentle craft"
has been invested with an air of ro
mance. This honorable title, given to
no other occupation but that of shoe
maker, is an indication of the high
esteem in which the craft Is held. None
of Our-craftsmen appear Ho enjoy a pop
ularity comparable with that of "the
old cobbler" or "shoemaker." Most men
have a good word , to say for him, a
Jojte to crack about him, or a story to
ten or his ability. An unusually large
number of men have arisen to eminence
from the ranks of the cobbler.
Of late years the old cobbler, like
the ancient spinster and handloom weav
er, is retiring into the shade of the boot
and shoe factory. Probably the most
familiar cobbler connected with liter
ature was Hans Sachs, who became
known as "the nightingale of the ref
ormation," and whose memory has been
kept fresh through Wagner's Introduc
ing him into his familiar opera, "The
Meisterslnger." . "
Huns Sachs was a German, the shoe
maker poet of the reformation. He was
the son of a tailor and was born at
Nuremberg on November 6, 1484. At
the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a
shoemaker In his native town. All his
spare time was given to poetry and
music, in which arts he was greatly
assisted by a fellow named Nunnen
beck, a weaver. v
On attaining his majority Sachs, after
the fashion of the time, traveled as a
workman from town to town through
out .Germany, In order to learn his trade
thoroughly. In this expedition he seems
ta have, thought as much of poetry as
of shoemaklnkv for he never omitted,
wherever he went, visiting the little
poetical and musical societies which then
existed ln.nearly every town in Qer
r"i?"r hnsn tr1 g"11'. nA ha1r
the various , trades guilds, and their
members were called "melstersingers."
On his return from his tour Sachs
settled down to work in Nuremberg and
proved himself both an expert shoemak
er and a JClrst rate meist&rslnger. In
means are all "mossbarks' will have
something to say as to whether a man
has to be a "mossnack" in order to be
eligible for the office.
Reviewing the statistics of Oregon's
dairy industries, we notice they have
deteriorated over 60 per cent in the past
10 years, notwithstanding that the of
fice of dairy and food commissioner has
all this time been in the hands of the
"Old Mossback." I think it high time
that the votes of Oregon, knowing they
can't make 'matter worse, give the
"young mossback" a chance.
According to Mr. Elliott, a man born
In our sister state ot Washington,
thought having been a permanent resi
dent of this state for upwards of three
years, yet should not have any right to
help develop this state, but should wait
until he becomes an "old mossback."
If there is not a radical change, the
dairying and farming Industries of-our
state, will be in such a condition that
all of our horticultural and agricultural
colleges will be of no avail, despite the
noble work they are doing. "
Voters, look ' to the interests" of the
state first and then place a man In the
office of dairy and food commissioner
like the candidate who has announced
as his .slogan: ""Honest and Intelligent
administration In the Interest of the
general public
In conclusion, give the young men a
chance. The old ones have been tried
and found wanting In many respects.
.1 ED A. JONES.
Opposes Selling for Senator. -Portland,
March 14. To the Editor of
The Journal Mr. Selling is making a
very active effort to gather the clans
In his interest for the- senatorship. He
vaunts himself as a progressive, hop
ing this will be sufficient for most in
quirers as to his attitude onvilaL ut
Jects. but having shown willingness to
head the state central committee in the
Taft propaganda. It must be assumed
that-Jie4a reactionary- along with Taft
on the matter of recall; Indeed, as to
this I have been shown a letter from
him in which he seeks to evade the re
call proposition by saying he "has not
made up his mind about it yet but as
he could not take office for a year,
there is plenty of time to decide."
Now, the people of Oregon, having
Bourne and Chamberlain to represent
them in the senate, are fortunate In
having men Who stand up stoutly for
progressive legislationwithout the let
or hindrance of ulterior motives. It Is
true it took Bourne a long time to get
to working properly In the traces, but
he finally arrived and Is performing
meritorious work and Is therefore to
be greatly commended. It would be a
disgrace for oar state to send anyone
to Washington to offset the vote of
Senator Chamberlain, who stands a
stone wall against every assault of the
money bags' protected interests and Big
Business. He stands with Senator La
Fohette, who has announced his platform
seriatim and is copied In the Journal.
If Mr. Selling would come like a man
and indorse such a code, I would pre
fer him Individually to Bourne, who has
had the Aldrich taint, but, having re
pented, is a better man than the one
who may take it on In the future.
Let Mr. Selling declare himself as
unequivocally as La Follette has done;
if he Is as broad as the latter, he would
at once stand for the senatorship where
i.a f ollette stands for the presidency,
That Is, almost every one but the re
actionaries and hard shells among the
Republicans would be for- him,- and I
would as lief see him elected as any
democrat or progressive. ----
CHARLES. P. CHURCH.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
UPLIFT STUFF.
J. Callahan Pill has a funeral face.
I guess he sprang from a long dead
race. , .
He d search the . papers for murder
laies.
Of convicts breaking Into the Jails.
The column of "deaths" appealed to
mm.
The other news he would lightly skim.
He'd say, whlte 'crosslng a river wide:
vvnai-a loveiy spot ror a suicide.
Perhaps he' pass a florist's shop.
Where flowferg bloomed from floor to
top.
And he'd say In tones that he meant for
brave:
"They'd sure' look swell on a new made
graver :
Now old Bill Blnks- owned a catching
smiie,
Which he kept on tap most all the
while.
He could see. a Joke In everything.
When he couldn't smile, why he would
sing.
He'd cross a river, too, you bet.
And he'd say:- "I s'pose that water's
wet.
No funerals appealed to him,
He didn't read death eolumns grim. -But
he worked that smile with half
try,
Which is going some for any guy.
Of course, the people liked old Bill:
They liked to talk to him. but. still
J. Pill's the man who's reached success,
All through his grouch and cussedness,
iror while me people lined old Bill.
They were nearly scared to. death of
rill. ..--..,- ............
Though I hate to knock the uplift
stuff,
I am telling you that a great big bluff
Will get the plums when the Joy grins
fall.
No thanks, old grouch. Well um by
. man. ,
Sachs.
fact, he" outshone all his compeers of
the guild to which be belonged, and It
was not long before he earned the repu
tation or neing tne nrst German poet
of his day. The reformation movement.
led by Martin Luther, was then In full
vigor, and found a hearty , sympathizer
and vigorous supporter In this "unlet
tered cobbler but richly gifted noet"
Luther had few more valuable support-'
ers in his work than the shoemaker of
Nuremberg, whose simple, spirit-stirring
songs were rapidly learned and readily
sung by the humbler sorts of people all
over me country. ,
Sachs' writings were very numerous,
both in prose and verse. Few noets,
indeed, hr.ve ventured to wrjte and pub
lish so much." Ha averaged more than
a volume a year ror more than 30' years,
His best writings are said to be the
"Schwenke," or merry tales.
"Nuremberg, his native town, Is proud
of her humble yet Illustrious poet, and
treasures up in her museum every relic
connected with his name. No testi
mony could be higher than that of
Goethe, who followed him close to 200
years later as Germany's beloved poet,
who wrote a poem which Is considered
a German classic on Hans Sachs. Dr.
Magenbach, in his '-'History of the Ref
ormation," says: "A happy union of
wholesome humor and moral purity
meets us in Hans Sachs of Nuremberg
and Thomas. Carlyle, In his own style,
whtch happily Is "Inimitable," -speaks of
him as a gay, childlike, devout, solid
character a man neither to be despised
nor patronized, but left standing on his
own basis Is a singular product and
legible symbol and clear mirror of the
time and country where he lived.".
Hans Sachs died on the 26th of Jan
uary, 1(76, 'at the aee of 82, in full
mental vlgot. He was besywri
verses and tales almost to the ,last days
of his life. His grave ir still shown In
the churchyard of St. John's,. Nurena
berg.
Tomorrow Sid Cloudesley Shovel
Saving Money at
Lawrence
From the Philadelphia North American.
One attribute of the American Woolen ,
company one characteristic of the trust
which manages the mills at Lawrence,
Mass. has been entirely Ignored by the
press and the public, by investigators
at large and by the authorities at Wash
ington. During the six week of the textile
woraers strme in the drab New England
city, through the turmoil, through the
uncloaking of secrets that He behind the
apparently Innocuous exterior of "Sched
ule K" and during disclosures that have
followed the first walkout of mill work-
cib, (turning nu peem mentioned or, a
sense or humor.
But the fact is now firmly and finally
established that the mill owners of Law
rence are possessed of a collossal sense
of humor. They have a naive aoorecia-
tlon of a Joke. They can be as funny
In their way as .the dryest comedian, and
as a final proof of their -drollery they
can keep a perfectly etraight face while -they
perpetrate the most killing witti
cisms. 1 ,. v ,
Four little envelopes which reached the
city yesterday via a man who was in
Washington during the recent investiga
tion Into Lawrence strike conditions, &
W. Ervln, of New Castle, Pa., afford a
sample of the pungent and pertinent wit
of the trustees of the American -Woolen
company and the other mill owners who
control thedesttntesof the polyglot
group of Industrial workers of that
community. These envelopes were taken
from the toil stained hands of the mllLl
workers, and they are what is known In
the . common parlance of the working
world as "pay envelopes," . There la
nothlna nartlcularlv mirth nrnvnklnr In
their slse, shape or appearance. -
True humor has Ita basis in contrast.
and the really funny part of these en
velopes Is the difference between the
figures on the front and the advisory
texts and admonitory Injunctions on the
back. So as to let the publlo Into the
Joke and prove to the world at large
mat capital is hot mirthless and stiff
necked and robbed Of all semblance of
Joyousness, these envelopes are repro
duced here with their witticisms, which
range from the broadly suggestive to
the subtly insinuating. -
For instance, can you imagine any
thing funnier than the solemn advice
printed on the back of the envelope -handed
out last payday at Lawrence to
No. 1(07, a man supporting a family of
probably five or six, buying shoes and
coal, paying rent, supplying food and
meeting doctor bills for. women ami
children? The envelope contained $8.0B.
No. 1607 Is evidently not a skilled work-.
er, but the lowliest and the lowest paid
are those who are most in need of a
Joke to make life livable. -
When 160? opened his envelope, If he
could read English (and he probably
could not), he was cheered by this- In
scription: "Do not spend all your In
come. A man's duty to himself Is to
save some money out of hts earnings.
Start, a bank account and be Independ
ent;" The name of the Broadway Sav
ings bank, of Lawrence, is printed above
the inscription, and below is Inducement
to save, stating that the bank pay 4
per cent interest on deposits. .
ine uroaaway savings Dana is con
trolled, as are all tho financial institu
tions, by the trust, which pays the work
ers, and which weekly reminds them
that It Is to their advantage to deposit
tneir -sayings" in the bank.
No. 1317, the head of a family, got in
a- recent pay envelope, which is one of '
the present exhibits to testify to the
piquant quality of the American Woolen
company's sense of humor, J5.4J. Can
you imagine him chuckling to himself
as he drew the money out and figured
now it was going to pay the grocery bill,
how it was going to stretch around to the
new shoes the baby needed and to fill
the outstretched hand of the landlord,
when he turned the envelope-over and
read this on the back?
"The object of this bank la to provide
a safe place for your savings, to make
them grow and to pay you your moneys
when you want It." ,
Savlnars! The verv wnrd mint h a
Joke in Lawrence, yet a child laborer
wno raaae is. and who goes in the mill
under the number 2318 is reminded by
the trust humorists that "early habits
mold character"; and "the person who
early acquires the saving habit Is laying
a foundation for future success," and
told "to start a saving account"
vu..u nuu efc mx units in
hts envelope or maybe It was hers,
for the girls work as well as the boys
m Lawrence was asked, "Who own
their homes?" And then told, with the
wisdom of the sages, "Those who save'
regularly and place the money where it
grows. One dollar will open an account
in the bank."
some or me men ana women or Law
rence have tried to save; some of them
have succeeded. Rut thr lm on shn
luraium nia xaiiure lo. jay Dy snyming"
out of his wages when he spoke before
the Investigating committee at Wash
ington. This was a man named Llpson,
a foreigner, who got $9 a week in the
mills, who had five children and a wife
to keep on it Llpson was saving not
for a rainy day or to own his home, but
to become an American citizen. When
he asked If he was an American, he
said: a :
"Yes a half way American. I took
All ti it 1 rsar b rifirat T nflirm we aKm
to save the 1 4 to take out the others."
He explained to the committee that
he had to buy shoes for the children.
This same man, when he was told that
there must be a streak of anarchy In
him, said no; he was an American at
heart, but he didn't believe Lawrence
was on the map of America.
One of the children, John Llehman,
wno nppeareu oeiure ine cunumii.ee one
who had probably been often reminded
by .the trust humorists how advantage
ous it would be for htm to start a'
savings account told the Washington
authorities that he lived In three rooms,
with one stove and no carpets. "We
live like horses. We eat black beans,
bread, coffee and molasses. Once a
week, on Sunday, we have meat."
Pointed Paragraph
Many-1 a man uses a. crowbar ror'
the purpose of prying Into affairs of
others. ':
:.':-.-' -.','':.-
The things that do not concern a
woman often give her the most con
cern. VS' '
... r, '-.'Jv ;:. '
Many a man thinks, himself smart
until his smartness lands him behind
the bars.
How It must Jolt the wife of a block
head when she is celebrating her wooden
wedding! , . ,
Most women are economical as long
as you can keep them out of dry goods
stores. .
" . ." .
.The woman who shows her teeth and
smiles Is reasonably sure to attain her
ebjeet meeh unwhei' than tlis uhb" Wfl
fchows her teeth and growls.
When a man wins l5-on a horse race
ha la abt to teM evervhortv h nm. sn
I except his wife, who would want ta
spend it '--y
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