THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST . 3, 1912.
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40.18, longltuda 53.40. Tho Anna
Rock are in latitude 39.30, longi
tude 60.3 0. The Hamilton shoal la
in latitude 40.25, longitude 64.28,
and the Ryder shoal is In latitude
46.30, longitude 49.36.
Theso are known rocks and shoals,
and their closo proximity to one an
other as well as to the reported
scene of tho Titanic disaster
awakens interesting conjecture. Tho
great Iceberg that doHtroyed her
may have been temporarily aground,
to float away later with tho roll of
the ocean. Instead of being on n
bottom two miles under the sea, as
she was reported at the time of the
disaster, tho ill-fated liner may be
on a rocky shoal, a few fathoma
under the surface.
square deal, all need for bonuses
will soon disappear, and Portland
cease to be a way station.
THE PORTLAND TRADE CRISIS
F
If
He who ascends to mountain
tops shall find
The loftlmt peaks most wrapped
In clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues
mankind
Must look down on the hate of
those below.
Byron.
THE LIVE MAN'S WAV
P
ORTLAND is either going to be
a seaport, or it isn't. The issue
will be largely determined by
the acts of Portland men.
There is not an Important Inland
port In the world that was made a
port by the act of nature. The or
iginal Thames was scarcely deep
enough to float a Bchooner, but Lon-
i Jdon Is the busiest port In the world.
Men, not nature, made it so.
! W The same is true of Rotterdam. It
; '' t Is true of Antwerp. It is true of
' J Hamburg, 93 miles Inland, and the
s, 'i greatest port on the continent of
.;'. Europe. Men, not nature, made
them all.
- The way to make Portland a sea-
7 port Is to use It as a seaport. It can-
: ' not be a seaport without ships. It
j.; cannot be a seaport without ocean
'"lines.
5 It cannot be a seaport of distinc
tion so long as Portland's Alaska
. trade and Portland's oriental trade
.:. SO via Puget sound. It is the steam
, , j ship lines that determine whether It
Is or Is not an Important port.
; For 26 years Portland has de
; , .pended on outsiders to give her
I: - steamship lines. For 25 years this
i city haB tried the plan of "letting
tT George do it." For 25 years we
. ' have waited and watched for others
than Portlanders to make our ocean
commerce grow.
. - For 25 jars we have been pour-
Ing out raone"y to deepen the Colum
' bla river channel, and with a success
almost unequaled. In 25 years of
effort we have produced a channel
that carried a 600 foot ship from
- " -Portland to the sea, and that is rap-;-
idly becoming as good a channel as
that which serves London.
We used to have an Alaska line.
But we haven't now. We used to
have, an oriental line. Buto we
haven't now. Our plan of "letting
George do it" has failed.
Business we had is Blipplng away.
Trade connections we had are being
seized by our competitors. Trans
'," portation lines we had, have van-
tied frorrrPorthtrrd and -the -river.
We are trying to arrange for an.
oriental line. Many of the big men
of Portland are interested as never
before Many of the strong men of
Portland are dl&turbed bv thc-glfr
THE HONT8
A'
RGUIXG the inferiority of
Portland as a seaport and tho
superiority of other Pacific
ports, F. E. Edwards, 1031
East Main street, Portland, says:
"The Journal declares openly that
If Portland does not give a bonus she
cannof'command any oriental busi
ness. Does not this admission by
The Journal demonstrate ihat Port
land is inferior as a seaport to
either Seattle, Tacoma or San Fran
Cisco?"
Tho bdnus is believed to be neces
sary at this time chiefly because
Portland's former premiership has
been allowed by negle-H to go to
ruin. The late steamer line "was a
losing .business so far as Portland
was concerned.
Tho Waterhouse line it primarily
a Seattle line, and it was never run
as & strictly Portland line. Port
land ,was an annex. Waterhouse
ships frequently left Portland with
Portland flour exporters standing on
Portland wharves appealing and
begging for room for a shipment on
the vessel. They couldn't get It, be
cause the space was reserved for Se
attle shippers. This did not happen
once, but many times.
The line was never managed with
the idea of building up a Portland
business. The Harrlman railroad
which arranged for it to make Port
land, owns- the- PaUlc-MAilr-. running
out of San Francisco. How could It
be expected to build up a rival line
out of Tortland, to be In competi
tion with Itself? How could the
Waterhouse company, a Seattle cor
poration, be expected to so manage
the Hue as to build up a Portland
business in competition with Itself
and Seattle?
Portland wis onlyan annex. It
was Seattle's back yard. It wns a
poor way station. It was a side
show. It was discriminated axalnst.
Portland shippers were discrimi
nated against. They couldn't get
shipping accommodations regularly.
They could not give oriental buyers
regular service. They could not fill
orders oa time. When they got an
order, there was no certainty when It
could be delivered. The Portland
service was so notoriously bad that
Chinese buyers frequently requested
Portland exporters to ship by the Se
attle lines because the Portland line
was so Irregular and undependable.
The process wasn't the fault of
Portland as a harbor. It was the
fault of Portland business figures in
permitting such an apology for a
line to be operated. It was a shoe
string line. It forced Portlanders
to do a shoestring tuness with the
EW know It, but the very life
of the milling business almost
hangs on oriental trade.
Even the country mills are
almost universally forced to soil
pnrt of their flour In the orient.
they fall to BO sell it, they cannot
long do business.
The manufacture and marketing
of flour is wonderfully changed
Thirty-five- to forty per cent of what
comes out of the wheat as flour is
not first class flour. It Is an in
1 ferlor product, and the taste of con
sumers has become so educated that
they, will not use It. It has to, be
sold to the Chinese In, China, the
Koreans In Korea and other low
order peoples.
Americans and Europeans want
"patent" flour. They won't buy any
other kind. It Is whiter and strong
er. But only sixty per cent, or
thereabouts, according to the mill
and other conditions, is of the "pat
ent" standard. That which Is not
"patent" is Inferior and salable only
to the oriental and kindred con
sumers.
This Inexorable trade fact Is of
tremendous significance to the
country as well as to the city mills
of the northwest. A few of the for
mer in remote localities are, of
course, not affected. But all tho
more pretentious mills are deeply
involved.
Nobody Is watching more closely
the developments as to the oriental
lino than are these outside millers.
Their business Is almost suspended
by a thread. No oriental export
outlet from Portland, means that
they must ultimately either shot
down, so far as an extensive business
is concerned, or make their business
connections with Puget sound points,
an expensive and circuitous arrange
ment. It is another grave phase of the
present Portland situation. It adds
mightily to the stress Portland is
under with no line to the orient.
These country mills, combined,
supply a big volume of business. A
mill of the kind at The Dalles Is
newly rebuilt, and is one of the
finest in the state. Others have
large capacity, and together they are
a big asset la Oregon
They are closely associated with
the business life of their respective
communities. Their operation Is a
matter of concern to farmers, to
employes and to the general com
munity life.
Their exports are always made
through Portland. Portland export
ers with oriental connections dis
pose of their flour that Is unsulted
to the local trade. The Interlocking
of all these relations makes a Port
land oriental line of tremendous Im
portance to a widely scattered pop
ulation and of enormous import
ance to Portland proper.
There Is no estimate that can be
placed on what the loss of Its ori
ental line means to "Portland. -
There is no way to estimate the
benefits to- Portland, frorrr the estab
lishment of an oriental line that
would be an oriental jlne.. ...
ing for a hearing, but the fury of tho
storm grew, fiercer and faster. Uh
web finally compelled to sit down
a discomfited and' disgraced man
Bryan and his anti-Ryan resolu
Hon were vindicated. It was the
plain peoplo of Democracy speaking
for the great commoner,
Letters From tlie People
(Communication Rent to Thn Journal
for publication In this denartment
ahould be written on only one aide of
the paper, ahould not exceed 800 word
in length and mint be accompanied by
the name and nddreon of the aendor. If
the writer docs not doalre to have the
name punnsnetl, he ahould ao state.)
Socialist View of Roosevelt
Portland. Or., Aug. 1 To the Editor
or Ulie Journal "Observer," In The
Journal of Jul 29, put 10 queatlomi
eriuarely up to the laboring men of thib
city and utate, when he eald to ?'Sub-
acrlber " that he "will have to be aatltt
fied with conditions at they are. and
anw wood, unless he, and others, change
tneir pontics and vote for the real third
party, the Socialist party, and get tho
KrafteVa out."
Now, there are many men who are
ninKins the am way as Observer. Tlu
Koclallst party Is the third party now.
but not for long- will It occupy that
position. , At the next election the Re
publican and Democratic parties will he
ono against it, as In Milwaukee last
prinfr, to beat the Socialist vice Dresl-
oentiai canaiuale, Emu Heldel. The be.
ginning of the end of both of the old
parties Is now here, and we can almost
hear their wan song.
Koosevelt sees It. that is whv he is
trying to get. up a new party; to try to
hold the Socialist party down. Accord-
ng to him, we are "undesirable citi
zens. Ivever ataln. If we are aenalhU
will we be whipped Into line to support
men who are not in sympathy with us.
fc.very labor union should hear Eugene
Debs on Labor day. Debs la with.
nd of you, a genuine laboring man.
He did not seek office; the office sought
him.
AV'e have example here In our own
Ity of officials who were 'promising
everything good to their constituent
Derore election. How are thev keeDlnir
heir Dledaea? If thnv warn, anniniict.
they would hand In their resignations.
Every Socialist elans hla rent
fore he takes his office, so that If ho
goes wrong he must step out
This Is the year w)wi the ' Bull
Moose will get his, and he win go back
to the forest where he ran naur nn th
vrm.ii iu inn neari s content; for the sen-
ioie people are going to change tlm
ystem to a cooperative commonwealth
where one person Is Just as good as an
ther as long as he behaves himself.
HARRIET BATES.
COMMENT AND. NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
This will b noted as th thunder and
maa aog summer.
One can live on about nnthln wmtr
Too many people want to llv at an
auiornooue rate on a street car income,
Nobody seems to take tha attemnted
pruBBcuuun oi mo mayor seriously,
m
Every year, by snail tha wathr
acis as u u wanted to be talked about
Even in a farcical nla-r.wnr AinhA.
lence or oroers is not a trivial offense,
Probably some voters will read na
tions of the Initiative, and referendum
ptuiipmeis.
Judge) Archbald'H answer la nuHa
riiuuan iu biiuw mac ne is totally unfit
iur a juage.
Mayor Onynor started eut to reform
nine old New York, but It seems -tie
uiu not uo a very thorough lob.
If enough automoblllsts exceed tha
speea limit orten enough, the city can
ruauce me tax rate after awhile.
Most reoole do not work at anvthlna
nearly uo to their actual catiarltv: manv
' "my a enip.u i ruction or. wnat tucy
Justifiable homlcldn or assault wnnlri
be the proper verdict in most cases
jvnereln a member of a charivari nartv
ib- Htiiea orjoujn.ae.a,.
OREGON" SIDELIGHTS
One man in Wallowa ennntv otrna
12,000 acres of good land. A proper
ly graduated land tax would Incllna him
to BCll most Of It at fair nrlcq In
the advantage of many people. - -
More than 100 Chlcaaro DennlA hava
uhacrlhed Ir.nnrt a vnni- fnr i,. ,.-. ,n
maintain a poetic magazine. If Port
land people will do as well for an orient
al steamship line, taking Into considera
tion the relative practical Importance
of the two projects, that million will
soon be raised.
The Business Interests will still i,
with the regular Republican party, and
Taft will win. says. Mr. Vorhv nf
Ohio. As to certain big business ln-
erests. he Is doubtless rla-ht. thnnch
Teddy seems to hav captured some of
the biggest of thenv However tima
have changed since the heyday of Mark
Hanna. J
Big preparations are belnr made for
mgiois on
the third
the W. O. W. log foiling at tanglols on
This 1
August 22 and 23.
annual rally at JUanglols.
A commercial elub has been erganlsed
at Umatilla, officered as follows: Pres
ident, Harry Dryer; secretary, J, H.
Sherry? treasurer, B W. Clnne.
-
fiumpter-American: Huckleberry har
vest la now on, and the pickers are
flocking to the mountains with their
buckets In Quest of the luscious berries
and their thoughts on the plea In store
for the future.
Astorlan: Tha consumntlon of eirs
In Clatsop county durlna- the year 1910
amounted to 40,000 dosen, of which not
over 10,000 dozen were produced here,
The average retail price was 35 cents;
bh high an average as waspald on the
I'aclflo coast. . - j
Ralam fltnttmin' Th. iWrlr rtf 1m.
proving the won d leading from the south
ern limltav-of Halem to the state feeblo
minded institute and beyond will be re
sumed next week, and before winter
arrives will be made one of the popular
driveways, in this vicinity.
Albany Democrat: Albany has the
best business blocks, tha most attrac
tive residences and the cleanest streets
of any city in the Willamette vallev.
The Installation of cluster liirhts on the
principal streets of the city would make
i ino most attractive town in Oregon.
Most Important Bill
; Before Congress :.
Joseph Herald: At Joseph, with a
natural reservoir five miles long, one
mile wide and 400 feet deen. there- is
never any danger of water shortage for
any and all purposes. In other towns
during the dry season water la so scaroe
hat almost every dron is counted when
usea ror irrigating purposes.
Oold Beach Globe: The next Issue or
wo or the Ulobe will be sotten out
entirely by our two daughters, Miss
ituny ana miss ii,cno, aoiy assisted by
Professor Htnnnuid on Mondays .and
Tuesdays, while ye editor goes to the
hills for a vacation made necessary by
falling health.
Port Orford Tribune: There will he
0 cut agates on display at the carnival
his year where there was one last year.
Several excellent collections of Indian
cuytos,jand a considerable display of
he nerdJecraft Proficiency of Port Or
ford women, will make the first exhib
ition or tnia Kind ever attempted in
Curry county.
HIGHEST ON RECORD
t " uatfon, and anxious to Bee our dls-
1 ' tant trade connections restored
-j - Two plans are recommended by
;,rC the chamber of commerce commit
.-J tee FJrstr-t give a tonus of $75.-
(
f
1 -
000 a ye&r for three ycrFTfcT'some"
?teamship company; socond, to or
j ganize a local company and let It
take the bonus and operate an ori
ental line.
orient. The delays, the postpone
ments and uncertainty would kill any
business and It has both partly killed
Portland's oriental business and
armed Portland's critics with ammu-
"llMftBioassail Portland as a sea
port.
This is one reason why the line
didn't pay. There are others. A
Chief one is the matter of cargo
from tho orient to Portland. It is
i
-i-
Meign company by giving It a bonus,
won't we be on the same basis that
we have operated on for 25 years?
If outsiders, operating lines for
j us for 25 years, have not given us
; established lines, how will they do
1 It now?
If we engage with a foreign com
pany and give it a bonus for three
years, will we not be at the end of
three years exactly where we are
now?
Is It not the wiser way, the more
Intelligent way, the more prudent
tray, the more enterprising way, the
live man's way, to organize a Port
land company, take the $225,000
guarantee agafnet loss, and make the
line a line lor Fort land and by
Portland?
Why don"t .wtutogMl2vjmrjj.4 live
. -company? If we barter with a for- both ways No Portiand raiiroad is stock within enclosures.
I
N the Portland stock yards yester
day a beef steer, sold In the or
dinary course of business for the
block, brought flGvon and a quar
ter cents a pound. In the Omaha
yards beef went at above nine cents
a pound. In the Chicago yards
above ten cents has been paid.
These prices are the evolution of
the livestock business. They are
the result of the passing of the
great ranges. They emphasize the
going of the great unfenced pas-
The Straphanger's Complaint,
Portland, Or., July 30. To the Editor
or Ihe Journal I have lust read n
Josselyn's statement wherein he states
nis utmost belief in the "golden rule."
ror iiv days I have kept a careful tab
on in Mount Taw cars which carry
mo norne, wun ino roiiowing result:
Seating. Strap
t , , Passengers capacity, hangers.
July 24 7 36 61
J11' 25 102 36 66
J" v 26 81 86 . 45
July 27 108 31 72
July 29 D3 86 fi
July 30 ...103 36 67
Out of BS3 passengers he seats 216
and allows 367 to stand up; 367 people
paid $1X35 for seats In Josselyns cars
and didn't get what they paid for. Is
that the "golden rule"? If you ordered
a car from the factory, Mr. Josselyn,
and they sent It to you without Seats
in It. would you think you had been
treated to a dose of the golden rule or
a aoae of bunko? That's what you do,
give people a car to ride In, but you
don't give them scats. You don't give
them what they pay for. You ask la
dies to do their nho Dnlnir tit PArtnln
hours in order to relieve tha congestion
at certain times of the day. Are you
running cars for the accommodation
of the pujilio, or should the public- ar
range their shopping in order to ac
commodate you? Sunnyside cars run
out in bunches with half a doaen peo
ple in them and, seml-oeoasionally a
Mount Tabor car cornea, along crowded
to the top before It gets to Fifth street
and makes about eight miles- an hour
with a "no stop" sign on behind a string
of Sunnyside cars. Including a 10 mln-u-te
stop at- Thirty-ninth street, and
finally East Sixtieth street Is reached
in about 45 minutes while tha trln
should be made In 20 minutes. Good
service, Isn't It? R. C. ELLSWORTH.
SEVEN FAMOUS CALENDARS
Mexican Calendar Stones.
The most interesting and unique of
all the methods of calculating time Is
exhibited In the Mexican calendar
stones. These stones demonstrate
clearly ThT7aci7of""MaxfcMclvluzitI5n"
through their adequate system of being
able to keep dates. The Mexican civil
year was composed of 365 days, divided
Into 18 months of 20 days and five sup
plementary days. The Mexicans had be
sides a ritual or religious year for U
regulation of their festivals; and by
means of a cycle of 62 years, and a very
complicated method of computation, the
religious and civil periods were con
nected with one another, and the civil
year was made to correspond with the
natural by the Intercalation of IS days
at the end of the cycle.
The Mexican month was divided Into
four weeks of five days, but each day
of the month had a distinct name; and
Humboldt has given' strong reason for
believing that these names were bor
rowed from an ancient sodlac formed ot
27 or 28 lunar houses, which was made
use of from the remotest antiquity In
Tartary, Thibet and India.
The calendar of the Mexicans bespeak
a degree of scientific- skill and an ac
curacy of observation, which are not
easily reconciled with their semi-barbarous
habits, their general Ignoranc-j
of other things, and the recent date of
their civilization according to their own
account. It is here, Indeed, and not In
their language that we find distinct
tra ces" of the! r con necf Ion" with" Asiatic
nations.
We know little of the astronomical
attainments of the ancient Mexicans.
That they were acquainted with the
cause of eclipses Is evident from the
representations on their maps of the
disk of the moon projected on that of
the sun. We know of no astronomical
laatrunient -used -by them except, the
dial. An immense circular block Of
carved stone, disinterred In 1790, In the
great square in Mexico, has supplied an
acute and learned scholar with the
means of establishing some interesting
facts In regard to Mexican science. This
colossal f ragment on -whieh- the aln
dar la engraved, shows that they had
thp means W setting the hours of tho
day with" .precision, the periods of the
solstice 'nad of, the equinoxes, and that
of the transit of the sun across the'
senlth of Mexico.
The civil day was distributed by the
Mexicans Into 16 parts, and began, like
that of most of the Asiatic nations, with
sunrise. This calendar stone consists
of dark porphyry and, In its original di
mensions, as taken from the quarry, Is
computed to have weighed nearly. 50
tons. It was transported from the
mountains beyond Lake Chalco. a dls
tance of many leagues, over a broken
country Intersected by water courses
and canals. This occurred during the
reign or Montezuma.
In Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico,1
he says, "When we reflect on the dlffl
culty of hewing such a tremendous
mass from Its hard basaltic bed without
the aid of iron tools, and that of trans
porting it such a distance across land
and water without the help of animals,
we may''liirTeamTratf6 aT the me
chanical Ingenuity and enterprise of .he
people who accomplished it"
Next week Seven Noted Pioneers.
TnE TITANIC ICEBERG
ID the Titanic strike an iceberg
that was aground on a shoal
over which there was only
eleven or twelve fathoms of
""water?
" "This interesting question is raised
by a writer in the Nautical Gazette.
He urges that a survey he made of
0
pulling in the orient for cargo for
the United States to be routed via
Portland. The Harrlman lines own
the Pacific Mall, and it is not natur
al for the Harrlman lines to divert
cargo from the Pacific Mail to the
Waterhouse line, which operated to
Seattle with Portland as a way sta
tion. Nor did the Harrlman line
route cargo for the orient from the
United States over its lines via the
Portland-Seattle Waterht use line,
thus taking it away from the Pacific
Mall at San Francisco. That fobbed
the line to Portland of United-States-bound
cargo, lessened its profits,
and contributed to the loss.
An exactly similar condition re
specting tho Hill lines was present
at Seattle. Mr. Hill did not want
to go Into competition with him
self by routing freight to or from
the orient via Portland Instead of
via his oriental steamship line from
Seattle to the orient. Nobody ever
hoard of a trainload of tea from
the orient leaving Portland for the
east. Nobody ever heard of a ship
load of cotton bound to the orient
sailing out of Portland. Everybody
for twenty-rive years the coun
try's aggregate of beef cattle has
been slowly but steadily diminish
ing, and at the same time popula
tion, has been increasing.,
The logic of the phenomena is
higher prices to the grower, and the
logic of the future is higher prices
for the grower.
Seven and a Quarter cents in
Portland for other than prize cat
tip is the highest . price on record
in a midsummer markeir '
Tho farmers who read the omens
and address themselves earnestly
and intelligently to the livestock in
dustry are preparing their way to
bank accounts' and prosperity.
VINDICATING BRYAN
N'
Sanding the Streets.
Portland, Aug. 1. To the Editor of
The journalIn the Spokesman-Review
of Saturday, July 27, is an account of
the effect of sanding the streets In the
city of Spokane. The Horse Owners' as
sociation of Spokane has demonstrated
to the satisfaction of the city authorl-
iLeatte.euiclency . of sanding the
-v mj, , , ... - . i ijviwt wi incDu nunc,! at oa.il
the Titanic s position by the proper t.r,,iM ,(
' : , " 18 IimreBC ing!thR rmnln steamship
" lines of their own out of those ports.
He points out that the ocean is To be nlain Portland hna h
not so perfectly charted as It should
be after these centuries of ocean
travel. The mysterious disappear
ance of vessels is occasionally at
tributed to unknown and unsQspect
:;ed rocks that loom near the ocean's
surface.
The position of the Titanic when
she struck was latitude 41.40 and
longitude 50.14. An uncharted rock
flrfwtavnt mm wha ui. j- i --.
" ' " ijjiTT 1 1 ' tt IB in InilTTTrir!
. 44.04 and longitude 49.09. The
Uncharted Hervagaults Break-ers are
In latitude 41.40, longitude 49.23
Th Watson Rock is in latitude
discriminated against, and Portland
business men have done little to re
sist the discrimination. Portland
has been made a sideshow. It has
been made a tail to other towns'
kites. It has been made the goat.
The process has been worked until
our oriental connections and busi
ness are greatly injured. We haven't
protested, but idled the hours away
tmtll we hare no orlrrit&l line. -That
is tho reason for the bonus.
A bonus will help get the line on its
feet. And if Portlanders will stand
up and fight for tfiSir fights and a
O more dramatic occurrence
ever transpired In an Ameri
can political convention than
was the introduction in the
Baltimore convention of Bryan'a fa
mous resolution denouncing Ryan,
Belmont and Murphy.
Aftermath of -it appeared a few
days ago in the Democratic state
convention of west Virginia. The
most bitter assailant of Bryan on
account of tho resolution, was ex
Governor McCorkle of West Vir
ginia. He was unsparing and bitter
in his attack. There was scarcely
an epithet in parliamentary lan
guage that he did not apply to the
Nebraskan.
Bryan's revenge has come. It was
applied by the common people. Mc
Corkle wis a delegate and attempt
ed to speak in the late West Virginia
state convention. ;
His voice was drowned out by
cries of "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan,"
from all" ovef Ihe" assembl yTiali;
Bryan was far away, but the roar
of hla name from the delegates gal
lery was a hurricane.
McCorkle Btood In silence, wait-
streets, and the city has now taken the
matter up and Is doing It at its own ex
pense.
j no norse Owners' association of
Spokane formerly opposed the laying of
asphalt pavements on account of the
slipper condition, but they now declare
that In sectiojis where the streets are
being sanded by the city they are al
ready becoming much less slippery.
While the sand Is only spread after the
rains and washed away afterwards, they
declare that it grinds Into the asphalt,
giving a rough Instead of a slippery sur
face. There have been few accidents on
sanded streets."
The Horse owners" association of
Portland has made application to the
ways and means committee of the coun
cil to recommend to the city of Portland
th purchase of a, sanding machine,
with a view of Banding the streets of
rortland. The association and the Hu
mane society have demonstrated that
the use of sand is the proper way to
handle the problem. One load of sand
will sprinkla lSi blocks, and in the
demonstration we have sanded about!
1400 blocks. It Is a benefit to the as-
phalt pavement, and the automobile and
horse, owners alike Join In recommend
ing jt.
,-.JtOaERT TUCKER,
President Portland Horse Owners'. As
. Bociatlon.
A Game of Woolpulling.
Portland, Aug. 1. Tb the Editor of
The Journal At last, after more than
two years, Portland begins to realize
that there has been a 6team roller St
work In Oregon. I refer to the able edl
torial in the first column of yesterday's
journal upon "Portland's Black Eyo."
am rejoiced, for I had fully come to the
conclusion that Portland was dead, but
there Is sign of Intellect moving upon
matter, which indicates life.
I sympathize with the editor and a
few others who, I believe, were fully
alive to certain conditions which were
sprung upon Oregon some time ago.
They should have full sympathy, for
Oregon Is tho toy to the situation. It
Is therefore lamentable that a few must
be mado to restrain their voices and ef
fotts,awaltlng Jhe solar-plexus blow
which alone could awaken intelligence
of the many of Oregon to recognize the
importance of a transcontinental route
through the heart of Oregon via Port
land to the mouth of the Columbia.
They might have bad all this had Uy ,
treated with J. J. Hill In a proper man
ner, for I am inclined to think there was
strong personal favor toward Portland
rather than Tacoma. Who wns behind
the manipulation to defeat this? Those
who control the bonds of the Harrlman
line in Europe. And Portland men let
the wool be pulled over their eyes.
The s0W calculations of man and
mathematics must be loweredto' second
place, toy the intuition of woman. Had
there been a coterie of capable women
In Portland, this preference of Mr. Hill
would have given Portland the advan
tage, these many years, over other
ports. Portland is the great commercial
solar plexus of the Pacific Joast Man.
The Willamette valley U his stomach.
It is a most wonderful stomach, 60
miles wide and 120 long. Why should
not this great stomach begfn to digest
its own raw products? Because Oer
many wants to do It T Poor Oregon
seems doomed to the nursing bottle pe
riod yet awhile. (
I would have kept the Seattle spirit
harmonious by making a ship canal via
the Columbia river to Aberdeen, thence
to Puget sound, and by inland passage
direct to Alaska, the head of this Great
Man. Puget sound is the lungs; that Is
why we have heard such a great noise
up that way about the Seattle spirit.
And the. lungs are very necessary to the
stomach, and the stomach to the lungs.
Po not forget this, Seattle.
Oregon, you. have been lacking In
foresight, and now you must be pun
ished, and Puget sound will he made
the Innocent victim next, because, after
being obliged to punish you she will
feel the need of a stomach to make the
blood which she will need to keep shout
ing.
Now, then, I have politely roasted tho
men folk and am waiting for the last
word, which Is the privilege of woman.
Every city of power is managed by
women, who are the power behind the
hrone. Portland has no power behind
her throne, because -women are not
counseled with In the affairs of the city
arid state. LAREINE CAR LEY.
there may be no dependents at the age
of 45, and also One establishing national
and municipal slaughter houses, where
those who had reached the age of 45
could go or bo taken if they would not
go willingly, and be properly slaught
ered. This would save lots of trouble
and would relieve the dear property of
the tax to pay the coroner's salary, be
sides being much more humane than
slow starvation. Our grand system only
needs these two laws to be perfect, and
end povervy and suffering.
ONE OP THEM.
By Joseph E. Ransdell, President of the
National River and Harbors Con
gress. ...
The "Act to Provide for the Opening,
Maintenance, Protection and Operation
of the Panama Canal" (H. R. Sl,(9), is.
In some respects, the most vitally im
portant piece ot legislation which has
been before the congress or the United
States in the past 10 years.
Section S of the bill exempts from
v ivi im vssvii vug a gnu
ooastwlse trade of tha United States,'
vessels of American rea-lstrv envaead in
foreign trade, provided that the owners
allow such vessels to be taken and used
bv the' United States In case of war or
other public emergency, and vessels be
longing to the government of Panama.'
It Is of the highest importance that
the provision giving free passage to
American ships in the coastwise trade
should be retained because of Its ef-
and rail. The opposition of the trans-
flnntlnantfll fntlwnv llna la mmA tmnn
a misapprehension. Waterways hav In
variably been a benefit and not an in
Jury to competing railways, and there
Is no reasdh to believe that the Panama
canal will prove an exception to the rule.
So far as it relates to tolls on our
coastwise commerce the protest-of the
British government seems to violate tne
comity of nations, since that is a matter
of exclusively domestio concern.
There may be room for an honest dif
ference of opinion as to our right to ex.
empt American ships engaged in foreign
commerce from the payment of tolls
but are we obliged to accept any inter
pretation which Great Bfttain mar plao ,
upon the treaty? Is it not also the right
of the congress of the United States to
lntnrpret the provisions of the treaty, I
and Its duty to legislate in aocordanoa
with that interpretation?
Section 11 has been radically changed
for the worse. The vitally important
provision of the house bill which pro
hibits railway control of oompetlng
water carriers has been struck out en
tire. Railroad controlled boats are pro
hibited from passing through the Pan
ama canal if doing a purely coastwise
trade, but are allowed to pass and to t
handle coastwise trade to the extent of
half their cargo If on the way to or
from oriental or European ports. Would
the sole' and Inevitable effect of this
amendment be to give the transconti
nental lines a monopoly of . coast-to-
coast traffio both by water and rail?
Is such a result desirable from the
isnupuini 01 puono interest! Tne use
of shtps or boats to extend the lines of
a railway is entirely unobjectionable,
but there can be no genuine competition
between boats and railways operating
on parallel lines and under the same
ownership or control. -
One of the ipost Important features
of the "bill is contained in the latter part
of section 11, which gives the interstate
commerce commission authority
(a) To order the construction of
tracks connecting railways with the
uvni ui waici tamers ana id ubibi 111X11 m
the terms and conditions on which sire
tracks shall be operated:
(b) To establish through rates and
maximum Joint Ttes Jetween an ff over
rail said wateivJlnes;
(c) To establish through proportional
rates by. rail to and from the ports tO "
which traffio is brought or from which
it is taken by water carriers: and - ...
(U) "lo require railways to give eouel
treatment to all steamship lines engaged
In foreign trade.
These provisions, if adopted, will a-o
iar luwuroj esiaonsning the needed co
JtiJLpatlon of rail and water transporta
tion and would axtKTiA tha, h.nru. .
the Panama canal and of other-waterways
and harbors far and wide over the
country.
We believe that the portion of the bill
providing
First, that no tolls shall be charged
at the Panama caoal to American ships
engaged in coastwise trade, and
Second, giving tho interstate com
merce commission authority to regulate
the-felattone between -rarr4w .
and carriers by rail should be retained;
,And that the portion prohibiting the
ownership or, control of water carriers
by competing railways should h. . '
stored
Pointed ParafrapLi
An Ironical Suggestion.
Portland, Or., July 31. To the Editor
of The Journal Referring to your edi
torial of July 29, entitled "Increasing
Suicide," I Infer that you lay the blame
upon education.- In this I differ with
you and as I am one of the near future
probabilities, 1 speak from experience.
This increase is made compulsory by
our wise national, state and municipal
laws, and men at the head of private
affairs. All of'these eay a person past
40 or 43 years of age shall no longer
be allowed to earn a living for himself
or - those dependent upon him. See our
clv'il service laws and the. rules of cor
porations. What, then, is left for us or
our dependents but suicide? .True,
some of us are allowed to work a few
years longer at menial Jobs for a bare
eTtstenw,- but -that "in -only because-no
younger person will accept our Jobs.
Our wise lawmakers have hardly gone
far enough, but probably will in the
near future. They should nasi 'a law
proviqing ror the sterilization of both
Stand by Our Officers.
Portland, Or.. Aug. 2. To the Editor
of Thfr Jedirnal Many -things have been
said in OUr newspapers depleting thi.
mistakes of some of our police officers,
making it appear to many, especially to
those who need the restraint of such
men, that the police were, as a body,
like beasts or birds of prey.
Now, do we not consider the position
they hold, one of trust in the highest
sense oi me wora.' uo we not con
sider lives are at stake every day,
were it not for the kind counsel and
brave acts of police officers?
I do not mention the dangers they
undergo to protect our Uvea and prop
erty. I do not deny but some may fall
into temptation. Where will you find
a class of men who are confronted with
stronger temptations and more trying
circumstances than they?
Put yourself in his place Just for a
time.
Now, why not give them encourage
ment and Instead of looking for faults
and publishing them broadcast, find the
many Drave, Kind acts. Publish them:
tell them you appreciate their good
work, and then temptations will lessen
and the evil will be over. Come with
good and our municipal government
will soon be clean and pure and one
we may all bo proud of. But we all
must help.
MRS. JENNIE U MIDDLERACK.
Some carpenters do better work on
the stage than some actors.
Every girl figures on playtns- tha at
part In a wedding some day.
a
Probably no one regrets the fact that
we can die but once, unless he be the
undertaker.
Give a man the little he want here
bejow and he'll kick himself because
he didn't ask for more.
Perhaps patent medicine men fill their
almanacs with ancient Jokes to show
their skill In prolonging life.
Great wit Is said to be akin to mad
ness, yet we never hear of a man going
about boasting of his superior Insanity.
How it must Jolt a mother when the
son she thought was tied to her apron
strings gets tangled up in some girl's
shoe strings.
If a woman knows how to manage
her husband ahe also knows hew to
keep him from knowing that ah la
doing it,
a
A female philosopher says that ac
long aa a woman can keep out of a
man's reach she can keep him thinking:
she is worth reaching for.
Census Statistics.
Bayvlew, Or., July 29. To the Editor
of The Journal The statement was re
cently made to me by a man presumably
an authority on the subject that census
statistics showed the proportion of male
10 iemaie innaoitants on the Paclfio
slope as six to one, claiming the "slope'
cpmpnsea an country west of the
ocny mountains, and that in Oregon
the disparity was', even greater than
that. Will you kindly say through the
columns of The Journal If the state
ment is accurate?
SUBSCRIBER.
Tour Informant is mistaken. The
census of 1912 gives, for the Paclfio
coast states, 2.365,878 males and 1,826,-1
o iemaie i ne proportion for. these
states is 129.5 males to 100 females. The
ratio In Oregon Is not materially dif
ferent from that In other Paclfio states.J
No Use.
Chicago- Reoord-Herald. -
. "Do you think the government will
succeed In reducing the cost of living,
even If it makes an investigation?"
"It-may, but I doubt it My wife is
always able to thlnUof nltni n imj
men and women at the age of 26, that we can't afford."
OUR OLD FRIEND MART.
Mary had a little dog,
And she was fond of him
Until one day the brute got gay
And bit here-the limb.
' Milwaukee Sentinel.
ill
We had heard she had a dog
Whom she had taught to beg.
AjBd.,that one night, for reasons slight
He bll her on the leg. '
" Boston Globe.
We knew she had a canine,
A .bulldog, strongly built
And we heard, too, he at her flew.
Aua ciiewa riar jeii-nina stilt.
Houston Post
A different tale has come to us;
Her dog, we heard, would fawn,
And romp and bark but keep it dark
He bit her on the lawn.
"I want some meat." the patron eald.
"What kind?" the butcher ylped.
"The same old thing," the man reDlled.
"You know it's steery-typed."
They were knocking the wetness of
JJthe Willamette valley, a couple of men
, Neei and all because at that particular
time it happened to be raining.
"I've lived fifty-two years and never
knew how to swim until last spring,"
said one of the gentlemen.
"How dl you eome to learn f tn
tiulred Wi friend. 1 11
T didn't come to learn," said the
gent "I came to Portland and stopped
at a downtown hotel."
iZfT J"epUe1 thft trleh,J. Inquiringly.
"Well, dang It," yelped the gent, first
mentioned, "1 had to go UP town!"
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