THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND,
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27,
1812.
THE JOURNAL
A N I N DEI1 tS DBST KBWSPAFER. -:
,.C J. lACKSON,
. , , Puhllitur
area 8 208 houses are to be built,
providing for a population of be
tween 15.000 and 20,600, ..-.. -
I'niiiuTiiif tttf tntnf (li-pl- SonJr
. rerj Sunday owrnlnf it Ttie Jiarniil BulM
mg, I in iul IimiiUI iu... rommia ur,
4Hd
The average number of houses to
tne acre is only eight. Sixty acres
of the 412 are r reserved - for open
spaces or wooded and park. lands,
and-one of the recreation grounds
1.ntr1 at th tuMtnfflc Portland.- Or.:
ctVmTJZ1 tlin B..U. csd:coveri twenty acre8. in the eastern
Tirt.Kl'HONKS - Muln T173; Home. A-flOM,
)i depirioieritireehea by Uim numtwim
Jn tb BlxriV wb( department you want.
tlGHiX ADVEBTISINQ REFRESBN'TATI VE.
. -nj!imlii A licntoor Co.. Brnutwlek Bulldtn.
t:a Fifth sfrnue. Sew York; 1218 PeopUs
C llplkllnf. Cloio,
fititiMrttitioa trrma bj null or lu toy ddrM
IbUi Luitwl State or Mvxloo.
V PAILY.
OM yr. ...... .IS O) ' On menth.-
Jj SUNDAY.
Om fir... fJ.M ' On Bwnth.
' J ' DAILY AND 8 I'M' AY.
Oirar... .1 T50 1 On month.
..$ &
25
Let no man presume to give
'advice to others .who lias nit
first given good counsel to hlr-
Self. Seneca.
AJTEIt TWENTY-FIVE' YEAItS
cess to London In about 20 or
minutes. '
This Is, perhaps, the most com
plete, as it is the most highly devel
oped instance of the garden city, to-
$ ,j 1 wards which the municipal powers
1 under recent Kugllsh "legislation are
Invoked.
J These reserved powers of the eom
j munity teii'd, constructively, to
i health and happiness. Other pow-
, ers, now recently brought Into play.
jijhave for object redress of evil, In
justice, anq misery.
part of the tract a market square is
to be provided, among other pur
poses, for' disposing of surplus prod
ucts. . . "
A station on the Great Northern
railway, at East Fiiii'liley, gjves aerettcTOrofe-TrtlandlcoRDTn
and active purpose oh their com- nlcal defenses are allowed far too
plete and resolute nunlBhment, ' ' much weight In the American , sys-
Vlce In high places Is bad enough, ' tem. Justice is always held to walk
but the levying of toll on vice by with a slow Toot, "Here her progress
men .In high- places, who In effect too often halts altogether-The pun
suborn whatithoy do not personally ' Ishment, whatever it may be, is not
practice, adds to their sin; hypoc-, inevitable, . as in Germany and in
risy is a worse vice still. ' England, nor prompt as in itngiana
One of the remedies suggested In ' especially, but is eBcapable In this
Portland is to be applied in New J.cpuntry through obstructions sot, in
Yor,k, when the names and addresses ; the path of Justice by law or by cus
of all owners and agents of proper-: torn. The deterrent to crime lies not
ties devoted to, or rented for, the ; in tho degree of the punishment but
purposes of vice are published.. The! In its inevitability. '."'." .",,''!
.;-i'muij'"ui
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Wood row on tne Tariff
SMALL CnANGB
mission in this regard is,' perhaps, I an nuur wr irw .w
not .,iHriv tn h ni t R,.t 1 York baby was blown out of a third
a running sore is not cured without B,ory window and picked up unhurt,
radical MmMiAo nnrt' mmnitfl rti. The prospects for a brilliant future
closure in- this respect though the on lne Bnuiron ior mi tmuy are ex
most painful j9 without question the ;ceedlngly bright.
iiinuf ffrt.f?u " ... '
v. v i ' i i J Southern California promises an
New York papers protest against .... ,, .,.,.
, , ,, , ' , ' . . ,7 . eight tn llion dollar bean crop. Many
being called on to bear the full bur- o ,,,,., ,m f
, .. .j L ,, ., a Calirornlan will carry a few extra
urn oi me war. xiiey can on me ., , . ,
, ,, . ..j,! wans In his pocket this winter,
public not on y for sustained nter-i '
1
& there anybody In Portland who
opposes the establishment of a
! '.steamship line to the orient? i
Is there anybody in Portland
who believes it tetter for outsiders
THE MEKItK K EXAMPLE
HOUSANDS rmid a deserved trib
ute of respect to the. memory of
the latQ Charles B. Merrick yes
terday. It ralst'B the question
tOmanage such a Hue than for a 0f why we save tli- flowers to' lay on
r
'Portland company to manage it?
Is there anybody in'Portland who
thinks oriental steamship lines can
b&i successfully operated out of Se-
the bier instead of presenting them
in life.
More Important still, the unusual
outpouring challenges the query of
ftyleySan Francisco and Tacoma, but wl)y B0 "siiloniIi a tribute Is paid tho
cannot he successruity operated irom mcmory of a man wuo landed only
Portland? seven short years ago in Portland, a
J)oes anybody in Portland think stranger with but $12 in his pocket,
there was the slightest chance for, Charles Merrick was different. He
the former Schwerin Portland-Asi- did more than live his own private
ailc line to pay, when Mr. Schwerin nfe. He gave bark to the pub.ic
testified that throughout the four 80me 0f tne things that were tho pub
yfcars ho was operating the Portland- jjc-8
Asiatic line he was working "to keep ; 'e Rave tlme cffort Rn(1 enthu8,.
San Francisco the queen of the Pa- 'asm in Ul6 u! a,d S(,rviL.e to thc
.ifiM .. .
t community. Ho studied the corn-
Does anybody in Portland think m unity welfare. He wrought for the
tiere was the slightest chance for rornnmn un ma(i nPrSonal
est but for resolute personal effort.
And the same call may well bo heard
and heeded here.
T
HOME
HE eulogist at the Merrick
funeral yesterday deplored the
apartment house, and held up
tho cottage ns the fit home for
families.
No more plendid truth can he ut
tered. It is tin.' little luM.ie with the
grassy plat that is the true spot for
human residence in the city.
Tho walls of the apartment are
hard as the street beneath. The
stony pavement to play .n and the
granite walls to look on, are not the
way of natural children. A plat of
grass with only a cheap board cot
tage is better.
But the ground rents are high.
Tho Inn! valima urn tinnrmmita "lii!
In Maine the game law prohibits
the hunting of the bull moose until
November. After that the season is
open.
Recently a West Virginta lawyer
knocked out the judge after court
adjourned. Another "white hope."
Letters From the People
(Communications sent to The Journal
for publication In this department
Rlioula be written on only one side of
the paper, should not exceed 800 words
in length "and must b accompanied by
the name And address of the sender. If
the writer does not desire to have the
name 'published, he should so state.)
tie Waterhouse line to pay, when
"Ntaterhouse ships used to sail out
cause with the common pulsebeat
He pleaded for a better and more
cause everywhere and always.
It was a different attitude to that
' of Portland to take on additional beautifu, Portland. He urged that
"cargo-at Seattle, witn rortiana
exporters standing on Portland
wuiu-yes ciaiuunug lur BpiiL0 of g0 many portiandora. Portland
, ffrr Portland shipments? jha8 done a creat dea, more for a lot
; After trying for twenty-five years of portlanders than a lot of Port-
t build up an oriental 6teamship landers have done for Portland.
business from Portland by relying , IIow many have been (.normousy
oh outsiders, to do it, and after find- enriched by the growth of Portland
lig ourselves at the end of twenty- and without effort of their own in
fve years without a steamship line;the past five years?
;t all.-isn't it about time for Port-j If Charles B. Merrick was right
. -lenders to conclude that the plan of In Vila aft it t A a i hnaa ta; h n Vi a vn k
letting outsiders do it won't succeed? jceived B0 bountifully, owe somethipg
5 After twenty-five years of failure, 'to this community. Their wealth
CBllapse, disappointment and dis-'creates in them a trusteeship, and
curagcment on a plan of running a Ithey should use it for the better-
, t. i . ti i i
seamsnip line mrouga proxies, nient of the community that has
wfculd it -not be wise for a Portland done so much for them.
, company to establish a Portland line I The example of Charles B. Mer
;and operate it for the benefit of j rick's life, and the outpouring of
Portland? honor that came, to him in passing
I should impress itself upon the great
HOOD At)AMS - ST. HELENS
ittE ""beautiful book just pub
lished by John H. WilliamB of
Tacoma bears tot title, "The
Guardians of the Columbia."
By the name the portion of the Cas
cade' range through which the Co-
T
and near great in this town.
UNLOCKING KKCKETS
T
lOMORROW, an All-Ren ton
school fair opans at Corvallls.
The Gazette-Times says 1000
exhibits are entered in the ron-
liixnbia has torn and broken and ; tests for premiums. They are ex
gfound its way is rightly given a dibits of grains, grasses, vegetables.
llllHv' rf it nwn nnH on InHpnonflont 1 i j v ..... . i .
, .uuvpvuuui , )reaUi uuuer auu oiuer prouucis oi
sfSry by pen, and by picture. The;Heid, garden and home-making pre
Btory has been made by one who pared by the school children of the
loves every rach or the great stream, j county.
ey.ery glade and vista of the wonder-1 They are the result of the move
fuj forests that make fairy land of ment led by the bankers' association
in lower ranges tnrougn which it ! and participated in 1
Graduated Tax.
Portland. Aug;. 21, 1912. To the-Editor
ot The Journal. Allow me, in a
few words, to explain to "Numbskull"
tho error of his way.
In the lsue of the 19th you k cer-
i Lniii nj uefl i iu I is. Jl n in uui ansnci nidi
land system drives the children into : for tlie reason that theyNvere not asked
tt,.. o or me. 1 win simp y say, nowover, uiai
the apartments, where many so-1 man ,jvln(T ln arKoulli) requlre,
called homes are built on one poor 1 no police protection tliun if he lived In
spot of earth. a smaller one Unit the pretence of tax-
Over-capitali.ed land falls heavily I ue'a,Ke hous, 'ner l fue valua
. of his houso is tliu only thing that Is
upon poverty and near poverty. It , i,PtI up by certain individuals to justl
distresses the children and the lives fy the taxing and eventually selling
of those above tho poverty level. ! fur tat-s of tho household goods of the
ii.u v, ,,,, , man who works for two dollars a day.
Back of most of the puny children, 'The ony way , t0 let lt all g0 and
back of many a pallid face and bent put the taxes on something that can
form is tho stalking spectre of over-1 m,t dodge. Some people could put a lot
capitalized laud. j of Hf,1,ry ,GorKe ftheory and tfmUnol-
,, t t . ,. j ogy Into this hut you can figure it
How strange that In a world SO i out for yourself. If there were not so
big. so many millions of children are many homing "vacant lots'' as you call
w lthout
home.
a grass plat as a part of
HOME KILE FOR IRELAND
c
them It would be easier for some of
the poorer classes (and government
statistics show that 85 per cent of tho
! people are either poor or very poor) to
to buy a lot and build on it and
there would not be so many vacant.
You have not read this bill or you
would know that under the bill the large,
holdings of over 110,000 will pay a
tax that the rest are not subject to.
ABLES announce that on Sep
tember 2S the plans will bo an
nounced that have been long
in preparation in Ulster, and L'Ilder this "ytem these heavier hold-
by the enemies of home rule in hot h '"7"',Vn Q0foth, w;'alth'r. t"tf,8-
corporations and the many 'estates
islands for establishing in Ulster , with which this city is blessed will
provisional government, With head-! Pay approximately one-th!rd of all the
Qlllirters ill Belfast j taxes levied in this city. This will off-
, i... , ,L set tllf! amount We will lose by not tux-
These Steps are conditional on the ing the buildings and personal property,
passstige In Parliament of the home The consequenois Is that very little more
rule hill. Thev are to be aeccHupau- wU1 be paU1 by vacant lot owners than
, , , Al ' . , , . now perhaps lu or 20 per cent more
led by the passage, in a provisional ,Jut t0 offset that you.ni not j,avc
parliament to be formed in Ulster, ; the- tax you now pay on your furniture
of bills for segregating taxation for ! und-c,tlltr household goods.
the government of that province, and ; As an exanirie of us 8uppps
... . , your assessment and taxes are as fol-
for tho enrolling and' drilling, not1,,:
' Among the thlnts that never fail are
. , I0' Marshall ia an eplgramlst,
nv ia no( mi ne ia.
,n W0UW think that Heyburn 'was
""""'j euougn 10 resign.
VJ:02 M11 didn't.djo
vsry much damage, after all ,
e
Don't daanalp vnnn hl fc.l-fc.
u ,1:9 crram season B ptsi.
yP !.an-'oW 'Ashloned, iconoclastic
official the governor is, to be sure.
. One cannot readily understand why
the president is so tenacious about that
commerce court.
Congrese did several things for Ore
gon to -hurrah for; $60,000 for a Crater
lake road wa one.
-
A prohibition candidate campaigning
expensively and laboriously, indicates
lncerttjr and patriotism.
Oregon colleges are deserving of at
tendance by Oregon youth! patronise
home educational establishments.
The Salvation Army will go on "oon
querlng and to conquer," but there will
never be quite another General Booth.
Poor Nick; his distinguished father-in-law
ia against him, and his wife, it Is
supposed, la a fiimlnln "-Mn nt ,h.
old block." " "
Another woman nrhn Villa t, kl.
band Mrs. Bernhelm of Chlcaaro has
been acqulttefl. Kllllnk husbands seeing
to be a perfectly safe sport.
Pensions to widows with children nr
recommended by an Ohio law-fixlntr
commission; it is supposed that even
poor -and homel v widow to h in
eluded.
Shaker Indians set an examnt for
white folks; don't drink, smoke, chew or
swear; help one another, especially the
sick: shake hands much, and take no
medicine.
Nothing delights the average man
more than being called out of town
suddenly on business when some of his
wires folks are visiting at his home.
Because newspapers are lartelv filled
with stories of various kinds of had
people, don't conclude that nearly all
people are ban. The great msloritv of
people never "get int the newspapers."
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
From the St Louis Post-Dispatch. .
Majority l.eauer uscar w. Tlnflerwood.
Lebanon Tribune: F. L. Smith of near 'f.vioin v, ov,i,.,.-
rattler near his farm." The nake was cr"Uo houss as chronicled ln-the Con
294 inches long and had eight rattles
and a button.
. "
Managers of, theatres at Coqullle.
Myrtle Point, North Bend, Bandon and
Marshfleld have formed a circuit "for
their: own protection and the improve-ment-of-the
plctore-lndustry of --the
county." : . ' . ' : ',
ath FaMfl Northwestern: flood
progress has been made on the box fac
tory. It Is expected that H will be
gressional Eecord. has set forth, as he
sees lt, the situation before American
consumers under the present tarirf .sye-
ivui in mm xasnion; ... . ., .
. w..v. yi vaunt vvyruHViVQ isruj.
law, the laborlng man returns at night
jrum nis ion ciaa m a woolen suit taxed
,75 per cent; shoes taxed 13 per cent,
stockings and underwear 71 per cent.
a cotton-sTdftTIaxed 0 Der cent, a wool
hat and vnnian inv. n v n n u u
ffiAPF -htk by geptember lfi. AboutjHe c.rIle. 'ITIk-ZZ
1 10.000 worth of machinery was pur
chased at San Francisco. ;-
Myrtle Creek Mail: A stalk of corn
13 feet and 10 inches high, grown by
Oeorge Trask of Houth Myrtle, can be
cent, and greets his wife as she looks
through a window pane taxed 62 per
cent, with a curtain taxed 42 per cent
Aiier scraping his shoes on an iron
lTJZllVuukl with mt' "CrPer tMcd 78 nt, he Wipes them
Dt.hi;Uvil th!- P'M i ?.n . maV taxed 60 per cent He lift.
pan
foil
pects of a big yield this fall
Prlneville Review, auotinsr from flies
of 26 years ago: It takes just two weeks
to get a letter from here to Lakevlew. a
distance of 200"inlles. A petition is being
circulated for a mall line direct from
here to that place, by which the time
win te reduced to three days.
-
Orants Pass Courier It is not an ex
ceptional thing to see big apples and
luscious peaches ln the Rogue valley,
out- that Gloria Munaa apple grown ny
y. H. IBasler on his property in the
nurmeBHi pari ui iuwii is intra 10 omu
It weighs 2t ounces and Is as perfect
as It Is big.
-
At Hermlston a yplunteer fire com-
y has been organized, officered as
...... n.nM 17 rrm a).,. U f
Christian, assistant chief; J. F. Wurster,
foreman hose cart No. 1; J.- A. Dono
van, foreman hose cart No. 2; H. B.
Olcse, foreman hook and ladder truck
No. 1 ; F. R. Reeves, secretary-treasurer.
There are 21 members in all.
- Donald Correspondence, Woodburn
Tribune: Last week Mays & Ooode fin
ished burning the first kiln of brick.
There are 200,000 ln the kiln and they
are said to be of excellent quality. It
Is understood a portion of the output
of this yard will be used in the con
struction of a brick business house for
the store of Mays, Ooode & Co.
C.ooa Bay Harbor: Coos county offl-clala-
could do no better thing than to
open a first class rock quarry, pur
chase a crusher and a number of auto
trucks and scows and get ready to build
roads that are not the laughing stock
of the stn,te. It would be far better
to build two miles of permanent roads
than to spend the entire yearly appro
priations on temporary work.
SEVEN GREAT LETTER WRITERS
Madame de Sevigne.
Total assessment $2000
This, at 22 mills, which was the 1910
rate, moans that you pay Ji4 taxes.
Now, let ua suppose the single tax
had been In force. Your assessment
them would be $800 the lot only. On this you
he LHike of Devonshire, the Marquis wlu ,r,ay,a omewhat higher rate, which,
of Londonderry, the Marquis of Sails- ralsed unuer the graduated tax should
bury and his brother, Lord Hugh riot be more than 30 mills, at wlilch rat
iv t in ai'r nn -! Aim ra .nrrl Chnr na nnrci. Jlii nmu in uiu woutu nave Deon
flows, and who has Climbed its eiiarrl-i n i)X-.,i.i o ' !,... 'c. a r. j .about :4
iuiui vjiiv.tt, nit? i ui imiiu Liin in - ; i ui u , on ejuvvuiu v.iu auu nnu iur
jan mountains rrom every siae, learn
only of police hut of an armed force.
It is known that considerable bodies!
of citizen soldiers have been drilling!
the dark of the
t Irish precedents. '
The open and avowed leaders of j
the movement are some of the Con-
forvatives or Unionists, amoni
tt
House assessed at
Lot assessed at
Household goods assessed at
$1000
800
200
Vr some time in
moon, after ancient
1 ret, 1
Madame de Sevlgne, a French woman
of the seventeenth century, seems to
have, above all women, possessed the
knack of writing interesting letters
the most interesting In tha world. Peo
ple ell over th2 world r-:a0 thjbc letter
and are delighted. They read them again
and Ind in them the Same charm.
iuauame eevigne was tne granaaaugn-
ter of the Baroness Chantal. who was
made one of the saints of her church
for her works of charity. Her father
Mtras killed when Marie was only cue
year old, and her uncle, the Abbo de
Llvry, took charge of her. This was
when the uncle was 29 years of -igo.
He lived until Marie was 60 and in her
letters she always called him "The
Very Good."
When Marie was 18 she married Herri
de Sevlgne. They lived together ratner
unhappily for seven years, when the
husband was k.'lled ln a duel. Madame
was devoted to him, but he was Inca
pable of faithfulness. She never mar
ried again, but she devoted herself to
her two children and to tne brilliant
social life of that period. '
The oldest child was a daughter and
tho letters of Madame de Sevlgne, which
are counted the most graceful and In
teresting extant in any language, are
many of them addressed to this daugh
ter. Eut these letters also embrace
Important communications to the
friends of her long life, and these In
clude Cornellle, Racine, .Moliere, Bos
suet, Pascal and La Rochefoucald, together-with
scores of others. Tho gos
sip, the relation of evehts, the graceful
and playful touches of wit make these
letters historic and literary treasures.
Sensible, well posted people realize
quite well that many of Madame Se
vigne's Judgments on men and mesa-
rial club (bo Ktat Kiiiioriutomlorit nf
., iu uieu trans uuu pains, ana rac- schools, and others. The purpose is
ing the perils of crevasse and berg-it0 heighten the interest of youth ln
etrund, of snowbrldge and glissade. !
- , ' 1 ouii u.ii4 ixiia iu ubuiuauug Lilt;
both in climb and in descent. j back-to-the-land movement.
To too many Americans of our! For several years, similar school
eastern states Switzerland is the on- fairs were held In Benton bv Count v
ly country' that deserves the title SuiTinU'!i(lcnt Denman, and always j arrest and imprisonment.
jne piay-orouna or hurope." They with the result that splendid dis--throag
its hotels, fill iu trains and. ptaya were made by the pupils.
.. dCJgences, engage its guides, and ' Some of the products thus exhibited
-Saint, and photograph iu lakes and r by -mere youth were as good as. the
. mountains. i ., i.,.
ijcoi ii-paiT-u ijv u.'auuiiv,
..The Williams book is crowded1 Nobody knows how many bovs
'from end to end with beauties, it 'and girls may be kept on the farm
ia written with an instructed pen by through the interest awikene.' by
one familiar with the lessons of . theso contests. The use of tho soil,
crater and crag, of cliff and glacier, the application to it of fertilizer and
It..ls illustrated with two hundred water, and the quick response of tia
rdctufee, in which the .amera has ture in the unusual plant is a betui
bdien used with breadth, and with a til'ul study.
delicacy that challmses the use of
tb.e magnifying glass to bring out.
beauties both in the half tones and
in the three color process plates. So
the book calls loudly to those who
6h0uld welconu- a visit to Hie "I'iay
Ground of in.- Paci'i" Coast." Thev
need not cross ocean and continent
tq; lind snow mountain and glacier,
ami Bucn forests as are undreamed,
of' in European lands, and, with all Til 12 Pl'KI'OSK OF THL
mis, picture alter picture of the
mighty river to which Rhine and
Il&one, Arne and Kibe are but creeks
of a small growth.
That other $20 von escantl will h
Frederick Edwin Smith. Most of made up in two ways, by the graduated
these men are Irish landowners. Tne tax R,,d y th "lightly higher rate that
last two are Unionist leaders in the ! l"'?" " mal"
, . ; ter what the size of the holding,
house of commons. Notice has been j As an example of the graduated tax
given by the present government to ; 1 mlRht mention the Corbett estate,
all of thorn that tho first overt act , 1,19 sl ente in the city. It was as
, , ,,. .,, , , j , .. , sessed, in 1910, with land to the value
of rebellion will bo followed by their. ; (,f t2,4,3oo. The graduated
this would have been $77,179. Being
Nature has secrets, rnvsterics and
storehouses of beauty that it is a
delight to unlock. When tho child
has learned liow, lie is half salvaged
for the farm.
Tin- school fairs may not. stop the
drift to the cirie.,. Hut they will be
an aid in familiarizing youth with
the secret beauties of tho larld.
The Ulster campaign is to begin on : oucn a miK "olulnK n pays the maxi-
Sontemi'er to continue till "Ulster ' mum rate- " l3.a f10"" fact ht only
pii.pu im.er ... to tuuuiiue im Ulster ,one per cent of the people of Portland
Day," the 27th of that month. On have property actual land value
that day. religious services are to amounting to more than $10,000.
bo held in the various towns of UI-!, Ai?,lti1.y'hm0,,,,l ltth!Complal"ts
.against tins bill is that it allows stocks
ster, to invoke divine blessing on ! and bonds to bo exempt, if it could b
their rebellion. any more successful in lcttlhg thai
To such lengths will men who are!class ?f ?roprty dodK taxt th
... 7 a t , , , 'amount missed will not 1 very notice
usually decent and orderly citizens able, if you know of anyone who has
go whefi obsessed with one over- i confessed to the assessor that he owns
whelming idea. Ireland being the 51001114 or bends or Is paying taxes on
scene of ucuon all may blow over in ; x V&oZ'X " 1
talk, but action is very definitely i Another complaint is that such large
PEOPLE
T
A new ;nii:x city
UTSIDK the Strictly suburban
IK best people and the best
newspapers of New York are
face to face wish morn dan
gerous and deadly conditions
than those which have been brought
to light in Portland. The problem
was well stated by Dr. Lyman Abbott
threatened.
FRESH HOMICIDE FIGURES
-a umiricis or ionaon, from ten at tho great meeting n,t tho Cooper
yjp w ua, uuicB i mm uie ter- union. "Thc problem is" Bald he
ni!nl of th0 railroads, lit8 ft I10I. Bhall wo erudicato vice but
belt of pretty country, elill ilsed for shall we eradicate protected v'ico'"
truck end dairy (arm, and being The administration of the law 'is
gradually absorbed in buildini; on- admitted lav both in vw v.,,
j w. A Wl ft HJ
a great degree, and in Portland to a
orations.
One such district north of the me
tropolis, is named Flnchley
uuui-i iud imiuui ui im: f n f i v
district council. it is desired to
grre unity of plan to building opera
tions, and to keep the cost of build-
'inj plats within tho ..reach of men
of, moderate means. $o common at. i
municipal action is utilised, and the
pars of the district, council, L.ting
t under the sanction of the local gov-
roaen,TTiird7 ire'ptTt Into action.'.
Tho" tract acquired through the
Ctwneil is ot 412 awes. On this new
less degree. The danger is lest the
It Is real criminals, thosw who profit in
pocket and who escape in person,
through this lax administration, suc
ceed in holding immunity from pun
ishment and contihulng their detest
able gains by responsibility being
bandied from the police to the ccyJrt
officers and back again.
This immunity is tlto Inevitable
outcome if the. condemnation of the
people, the community, stops with
verbal denunciation of tho offender,
and does not insist with unfailing
HE. American Prison association
has been gathering figures re
garding homicides, convictions
and capital punishment which
were cited a fewtdaya ago by the
New York (Hobo.
Last year in New York 119 homi
cides wero recorded. In London
therfcwero 19. In both cities capital
punishment is awarded. In the na
tion at large not one murderer in
four is brought to trial, not ono in ,th result of
stores as Meier fc Frank will not pay
any taxes on the stock of goods, stonj
buildings, etc. They paid, ln 1910, on
tho store, the lots on which lt is situa
ted, and tho stuck of good.s, horses,
wagons, etc., a little over $39,000. Their
graduated tux on the lots would have
been over $24000, besides tho regular
tax on the lots. 1 am not sure that thla
Is any argument In favor of any tax
bill, however, as lt conies out of the
consumer, anyway.
Thc people have not heen Well enough
informed on this bill In regard to th
graduated feature. Home may say lt is
not fair. It would be Infinitely fairer
than a graduated Income tax for thj
reason that a large amount of that
which is taxed is inherited n,i iu rot
moor. This bill has been
the door latch taxed 45 por cent, steos
on a carpet taxed 63 per cent, and klst
his wife, clad ln a woolen dress tajtdd
75 per cent. Bhe Is mending ah um
brella taxed 60 per cent,with thread
taxed 30 per cent ' .r
"The house Is made of brick taxed'
25 per cent and lumber taxed 9 per cent,
with paint taxed 32 per cent. Their
wall paper was taxed 32 per cent and
plain furniture 35 per cent. He hangs
his pall on a steel, pin Uxed 45 per cent,
using soap taxed 20 per cent.
"He proceeds to, eat his supper, which
was cooked on a stove taxed 45 per cent,
for which hla wife used pota and kettles
taxed 46 per cent. His meal ia a frugal
common rrnrkrv la I r. r. . .. j
j UQt -vbiu iiu
cheap glass tumblerr taxed 45 per cent.
The sugar he puts- In his tea Is taxed 64
per cent, which he stirs with a spoon
taxed i nor ",nt T I : i ,
, .... ,w i, tt gin ,,m
one because the cost of living is high..
"He usod a knife and fork taxed 50
per cent in eating saltflah taxnd in nr
cent, bread 10 per cent, potatoes 22 per
cent, salt 33 per cent, butter 24 per cent
and rice 62 per cent. He proceeds to
read a book taxed 25 per cent, and at
the close of the day reclines ln an iron
frame bed taxed 45 per cent with a mat
tress taxed 20 per cent; sheets taxed
45 per cent, woolen blankets taxed 46
yci cem, mm a cotton spread 45 per
cent.
"He is taken ill, and th doctor pre- '
Bcribes , medicine taxed 25 per cent, :
which being ineffective, he passes from
this active sphere of life and his body
is deposited In a coffin taxed 35 per
cent, which is conveyed to a cemetery
in a wagon taxed 85 per cent, deposited
in its resting place in mother earth,
and the grave filled in by use of a spade
taxed 45 per cent, whllo over his grave
is raised a monument taxed 50 per cent."
urea are absolutely worthless; that
many of her criticisms of things are
not worth the paper they are printed on;
that she frequently displays a shallow
appreciation of events that were shap
ing themselves around her; but all the
same the letters delight them and they
turn to them again and again.
In the subject matter of these famous
letters there is nothing that comes
within a thousand rr.lh's of originality;
and yet on account ot th style with
which they are written or, rather, on
account of the personality of which the
style lg the reflection, thoy have be
come a part of the world's classics and
will probably live as long as the works
of Homer and Shakespeare.
These letters were written bv a de
voted mother to her dearly beloved! g
daughter without the least thought that
their contents would ever obtain pub
licity. Therefore they are perfectly
natural and perfectly sincere and true,
as far as the spirit of them goes. There
are no attitudes, no stage plays, no
hypocrisy or diplomacy in them they
are the spontaneous, honest, unaffected
utterances of a fairly bright and thor
oughly loving woman to the child she
loved with ill her heart, and who re
turned the love ln full measure Sin
cerity abounds in Madame Sevlgne's let
ters, and for that reason they are and
long will remain a power in the world,
a magnet that shall draw minds and
hearts to the end of time.
The author of these immortal letters,
whose maiden name was Marie de Ra
butln, was born ln Paris on the fifth
day of February, 1826, and died at Grig
nan on the 16th of Apr)!, 1696, in her
seventieth yeir.
Tomorrow William Cowpcr.
000 votes.., are cast for the office and
75,000 for the measure, 60,000 affirma
tive and 25,000 negative. The meaaure
Is lost. Suppose I vote for the measure.
That counts one for lt. But suppose I
also vote for one of the candidates. That
helps to swell the total 100,000, half of
which are counted against the measure.
In other words I would be killing my
own vote for the, measure. The only
alternative would be not to vote for the
candidate at all. It may be said that
no one will be so Interested ln a measure
as to neglect to vote for an important
office, but in some cases they would.
In the coming election I am much more
Interested ln some of the measures
than I am in the election of any candi
date. If the majority amendment were
in effect, I should scratch every office
seeker, especially president which is
likely to be highest, so as not to kill
my vote in favor of these measures.
TV. C. N.
him a strong and robust man, even
though a pugilist, than to have him
be a cigarette smoking little household
pet like so many of the little Lord
Fauntleroys of tho "better element."
The kind of timber we need is oak and
hickory, so let us plant and cultivate
that kind Instead of wasting our time
on ot ton wood. D, (!, MI LLIG AN.
twentv-fivo of those tried receives IT "o ' of ,' " tn,nff nv"SU
.",.,, ... , , W t a cost of many thousands of dollars,
capital punishment. Murders in the The chief promoter. Mr. C'Hen, knows
Culled States increased nearly 900 J"Bt "bout bow it win work. .So !io some
lust year, and only one murderer "V'"", JA"lJ," whnyn th?.y a,e, klckln
, , i . , , 11111 reauj, arter all, the arwount nf
in clghty-ftx was sentenced W death taxes will not be Increased. It mere"'
against ono in seventy-four the year j means that tho burden will be shifted
before. ; And u wil1 b shifted to those amply
A more startling statement is that investigating conunTtte onTiln1
or page 4. Journal
homicidal crimes In the United
States increased 450 per cent since
1889, and that the ratio of convlc
tlous was less than ten per cent.
"The ratio of convictions in Germany
was ninety-five per cent." So far
congress see
August 21.
top
W. H. SIBBALD.
An Unwise Measure.,
Portland, dr., Aug. 24. To the Editor
of The Journal. The so-called majority
rule amendment will do more than rer.
the report of the American Prison i Klter non-voters ns negative voters, in
association is the authority. ! T, -e m'vT" a,nia,n favor
. , , , , . of a mcasuie to vote against It, or at
TA hat are obvious deductions, ap-! least to kill his own affirmative vote,
plicable not In Oregon alone? The T5 HltfHtrato thi I will, supposs an ex
action of tho police Is neither suf
ficiently active nor efficient in fol
lowing and, arresting a . murderer.
The evidence is neither effectively
gathered, nor so presented In court
aBto prove tho prisoner's guilt. Tech
treme case. Suppose there is an eln.
tlon with only one measure on the ballot
ana one office, to be filled. This, in
effect, i. what every, election will ba
with rsard to any given measure, ex.
cept that the one office (that for .which
the highest total Vote Is cast) cannot
always be foretold. Now, suppose 100,-
A Protest.
Portland, Or., Aug. 2.0. To the Editor
of The Journal. I never enjby seeing
all hands kicking a stray dog, so I beg
space to protest. The stray dog In this
case Is poor old Jack Johnson, whom no
body loves.
I feel free to defend Johnson despite
the fact that he had the misfortune to
bo born black,, while I am white; we are
both Texans by birth, and I will allow
no son of Texas to be abused if I can
prevent. I do not, for a moment, sup
pose that Jack Johnson is to be recom
mended for his piety, nor do I believe
hla profession to be the ideal one; still,
despite his color, he is the whitest man
today in the fistic field. -
And what is there about a good clean
glove contest to engender brutality and
demoralization? Nothing whatever.
Boxers are seldom rowdies and as far
as their conduct is concerned (and may
be morality is regulated by conduct)
they compare very favorably with the
' better element."
Boxing should be encouraged, it should
even be taught in the public schools,
and instead of fostering only the brutal
and savage instincts in our boys It
would be found to make them more
manly, self-reliant, courageous, and It
goes without saying that the most cour
ageous are the gentlest.
In addition to this, boxing would re
ward our boys ln stronger bodies, Im.
proved health, more alert eyes and
brains and without developing one da
generate trait In their natures' unless
the ability to deliver a good short arm
Jolt to the Jaw of a rowdy or masher
is a sign of degeneracy.
I believe the suppression of fight pic
tures and glove contests is wholly wrong
and tliat no good results can follow
such action. Do; we want our. boys to
grow up to ba aptneless imitations of
men 'or do we want them to be strong
courageoua defenders of their weaker
brothers and s1stersTI'have'aTson II
months old, one who la strong, vigorous
and full ot life and aotivlty, and when
he reaches 18 years I would rather see
Shirt Sleeve Law Demanded.
Portland, Aug. 24.To the Editor of
The Journal. At the session of the leg
islature of Oregon of 1909 there was
enacted a law regulating the length of
bed sheets ln hotels. That was a good
law, but while they -were about it why
did the law makers not pass one regard
ing the length of shirt sleeves?. It
would have redounded still more to their
praise. Mortal man has many a modo
to fight against, and a long-sleeved
shirt Is not the least of them. Exper
ience makes a sufferer kick against the
shirt makers when he finds he has six
Inches too much sleeve to contend with.
They have succeeded in cutting off two
or three inches of the pants, and men
pant for shorter sleeved shirts, O Lord.
Where a man has been buying shirts
for oVer 40 years and can't count half
a dozen of them cut to bis meaBuie,
like a tailor-made suit, and the length
oP the sleeve given with the size, then
it's time to appeal to the state, us did
the traveling men who kicked for the
nine-foot bed sheet until they got it.
SUn'JRKH.
A Breatli of Fresh Air.
From the New York Globe.
A breath of fresh air blew through
the supreme court when Justice Lehman
refused to grant an injunction forbid
ding the seizure of the hooks and cor
respondence of loan sharks when ar
rests are made.
The guarantees of the bill or rights
were written Into tuo law to protect
the public against the tyranny of a
monarch or of a small governing class.
The majority are Jealous, and Justly
Jealous, Of Individual rights. Cut sur
viving after the reasons for their es
tablishment had gone, the bill of rights
has become a shelter to all kinds of
iniquity. They are now mainly ap
pealed to to prevent the public correct-
ome abuse or removing some
evil. The courts have been slow, pain
fully slow, about recoftolzitiK thut a
seizure In the public's Interest Is dif
ferent from a selzura In a monarch's
interest.
Hut new light is breaking ln on the
minds of judges.lind lexo and less will
there be symputhy for tho confessed'
burglar, or gambler, or loan shark as
he grasps the pillars of the constitution
and says that his sacred constitutional
rights are being Invaded. It was not
to protect criminals and evil doers that
the bill of rights was established. There
is a perversion when institutions cre
ated for a good purpose are used for.
a bad.
The courts Insult the liberty lovers
of tho past when they say in effect that
they fought and suffered so that gam
blers, loan sharks and other social ver
min should find it easier and safer to
fatten on the weak and the unfortunate.
Al
ways in
Good H
umor
A DAD BREAK.
From the Boston Transcript
Orlggs When I don't catch the name
of the person I've been Introduced to I
auk if It's spelled with an "'" or an;
"1." It generally works too.
Brlggs I. used, to try that dodge my
self until I was Introduced to a young
lady at a party. When I put the ques
tion about the "e" or "1" ahe replied.
Indignantly: "Sir! my name Is Hill."
MORE DIGNIFIED.
From the Pittsburg Post
The orator was very vociferous.
"Yes, he 'Btole New Tork. He stolei
New Jersey."
Here the orator paused.
"Am I going too strong?" he asked.
"Not for those states, perhaps," an
swered tha party manager. "But make;
it 'purloined' when you get to Boston."
WHEN HARMONY PREVAILS.
From tha Washington Star.
It's a wonder some enterprising pat
ent medicine firm hasn't obtained one
of those health testimonials from Bank
er Morse.
ANOTHER FAKE.
From the Washington Post.
Speaking of "iiature-fakers, who ever
heard of a bull moose at Arniagedoon?
Women's Hours of Work.
Portland, Or., Aug. 24. To the Editor
of The Journal. Is it a state law that
telephone operators 'have to work nine
actual hours a day?
Can the telephone operators that have
been working eight hours a day be com
pelled to work nine hours on the same
pay? I have been informed this ia a
state law. ANXIOUS.
The State law provides that 10 hours
shall constitute a working day for wo
men. If a person Ib employed by the
day, or month, and not by the hour, the
employer, under the law, would be in
position to demand a full day's work for
the same pay, unless It was agreed that
a certain number of hours should con
stitute the work day.
Pointed Paragraph
It takes a smart man to look wlso
when he isn't.
A reformer Is usually Just outside
the political ring.
Some men aro dumb
wives talk too much.
because their
Occasionally a man Is too patient iu
be of uny practical use.
An essay on "How-to- Make
ding" ought to create a etlr. ,
Pud-
From a maidens point of view, a
ring on her finger beats two at thi
door.
Thinks West Wrong.
Oswego, Or., Aug. 25 To tne Editor
of The Journal. In reading your paper
about Governor West coming to town
to clean lt up. If he does will he tell i hie Income.
us wnere tne victims or me, underworld
will go? They will land in the small
towns and cities and West or anybody
else can t remove Mount Hood. Port- i indulgent friend
mna is not so oaa ns many other east
ern oitles. West will do more harm
than good and it will not do to stir up
a hornet nest. If you do, some body is
sute to get stung. Governor West bail
a' little thickheadedness In Tijii "nature.
Could ha hot have consulted quietly and
not let tha underworld know what he
had made up his mind to do? ' A. M.
Eome'men'a idea of Justice is to get
what they want Instead of what they
deserve.
- .
If a woman will prevaricate about her
age, sometimes a man win ne about
When a girl marries the man she's
engaged to she la apt to lose a mighty
It is reported that gum chewing Will
prevent seasickness. Trobahly some
gum manufacturer reported it.
.
EveFlm"InteristIi
of Us charms for a.piri when she dia.
covers the author hs; dedicated' it to
hla wife, y . "